You may remember previous blogs about the Art Picnic event, which we had to postpone because of the awful weather at the time. The good news is that we have now rescheduled it and it will take place on Sunday 11th September at Mortimer Forest in Herefordshire.
Philippa Lawrence's artwork Barcode: FB814 looks stunning in the forest. It nestles within the trees: you can see it from the pathway, but you have to step off the path and weave through the trees to get close to it. You find yourself in a space infused with an almost magical air: something so familiar is rendered strange by the incongruity of its placement. We see barcodes every day of or lives, but rarely consider them and here they are, drawing our attention to the 'natural' environment of the forest, and the way that we use these resources commercially.
