The art in these pages can be understood as conforming to a greater or lesser extent  to three basic definitions.

1. 1)All the art is made from materials found in the environment. These materials being either those which grow naturally (such as withies) and that can be sustainably managed;  or else, they are waste materials and scrap to recycle, that would otherwise eventually end up in landfill one way or the other. In the latter case, the waste is at all times found in (or very near) the location of the installation.
   

2. 2) The art is linked to a certain location and time, which it aims to reflect and augment in some manner or other. The art is therefore tied to being in a unique space and/or at certain time and/or inside particular landscape (and so caught up by its history real and imagined, natural and human).  Moreover many of the art works are ephemeral and the natural process of decay or manmade destruction is built into the projects themselves.
   

3. 3) The art is in most senses political in the wider sense of the word. That is, its aim is to encourage viewers, passers by or interactors to think slightly otherwise about where and therefore who they are. So that while the art is far from conceptual, in the very conventional meaning of the word, it does attempt to allow for and produce concepts (in others): Its aim is therefore always to encourage or provoke (re-)thinking.

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