carve, hew, adze, bend, weave, grow, split, join, Print, Peak, Abergavenny Train Station, 2022

carve, hew, adze, bend, weave, grow, split, join, is a work of speculative fiction about an autonomous community in a countryside of the future. Drawing on the interdependence of country and city as well as past revolutions in rural craft, it considers the tools, objects and methods of a woodworkers’ coop after the decline of the metropolis. Alongside this, a quote from postcolonial theorist and poet Édouard Glissant similarly rejects the countryside as solely a place of conservatism, alternate histories suggest that ‘the countryside is also the place where there are revolutions’.