This body of work is an exploration of the remaining war time pill boxes dotted around the Southern England, these intriguing architectural forms placed in the landscape hold histories of the past and create an intense atmosphere being around them.
Pill boxes are owned by the ministry of defence or the English Heritage trust, there are 6,000 out of 28,000 remaining in the UK, all with strict rules that they can't be removed so lay abandoned. The concrete ruins are disappearing due to natures course in particularly coastal erosion. Even generations now do not know of the name, through photography I am documenting the structures before they are forgotten and fade into the landscape.
Through sculpture I am exploring the concrete form and this interaction of human history and landscape and how these concrete forms were plonked in the landscape completely contrasting the wilderness around.
