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GEOPARK ARTIST PROJECT - ANNA KELEHER Researching the Agency of Things + Talking with Things. Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

FLAT THINGS ATTRACT THINGS TO THEIR SURFACES DON'T THEY?

In their flatness, table tops, filing cabinets, plates, rock ledges and the surface of the sea are places that tend to gather things. What kind of things I can hear you ask. Well.... diverse Things, there's a real mix. There are microscopic particles, fungal spores and that type of thing, as well as much bigger things like buffalos, beans on toast, barnacles. (And thats just the B's)!

This surface flatness attracting Things thing happens just as much indoors as out. If you peer into the dark recesses of rock shelters, for example, I promise you you'll find all sorts of mostly small, but interesting, stuff. Nut shells, teeny bones, snakes heads, sheep shit, snail shells, insect wings. Once I found a broken wooden castanet and a blue and white glazed ceramic jug!

The Ranger bungalow at Berry Head National Nature Reserve is a hidden niche inhabited by diverse people, foods, technologies and speech. Its floors, shelves, filing cabinets and radiators hold a rich variety of Things. 

Outdoors, on Berry Head's wintery " East side", below the fort, the flat rock ledges are already attracting the first of the 1,000 or so Guillemots who will come to inhabit this most southerly Guillemot nesting ground. As the birds come ashore to select their plots, they are mapped by rangers and volunteers in order of arrival and the plots numbered. The birds are counted every morning and this repetitious observation has miraculously carved an identical limestone cliff in head ranger, Nigel Smallbone's mind, from which young Guillemots will jump onto black seas and swim out to join their colonies.

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