feelingandsensation – Creative & dance journal

Feeling and Sensation Diptychs Studley Woods

In December 2025, I photographed a set of trees at Studley Woods near Oxford – which is actually a copse. These trees are set beside a ditch in a hedgerow, creating a boundary. They are various ages but some are older – perhaps being repeatedly coppiced. Coppice – often Hazel, might be cut and harvested after 14 years, and the stump allowed to regrow, to be repeatedly harvested again. One use of coppiced wood is to make charcoal – biochar from wood.

Feeling and Sensation Installation

In August 2025, I completed a design for an installation in the Feeling and Sensation series including producing the materials for it. Since I had nowhere to exhibit it then I created a virtual animation using CAD software which is shown here. This installation focused on homelessness, cruelty and the anaesthesia which we endure for it to exist.

Feeling and Sensation Diptychs

At the start of July 2025, I had begun to arrange photographs which I created with my Rolleicord film camera in pairs – diptychs. The black and white photos were sensuous. I was intrigued by how they modified each other: complementing or contrasting, creating a relation between them and of them.