{"id":78,"date":"2022-10-30T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/?p=78"},"modified":"2022-10-30T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T22:51:00","slug":"tuesday-25th-october-jeremy-hastings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/tuesday-25th-october-jeremy-hastings\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 25th October  Jeremy Hastings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jeremy Hastings. Artist, Photographer and Storyteller.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had a visit from Jez Hastings today who explained that he is doing his PhD at Staffordshire University.\u00a0 Combining his knowledge of the geography of the land, walking along it and photographing it as he goes, Jez uses his photography to tell stories of his walks and encounters as a way of research whilst also creating an unusual exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>This unique experience of seeing and hearing of Jez\u2019s travels was achieved by way of us students choosing a single slide viewer from a box of several others. \u00a0Each is numbered and corresponds to an entry in Jez\u2019s notebook. The photographs are the product of two walks, one along the route of the river Wye, the other the river Duddon.<\/p>\n<p>Seated in a circle we were asked to look at our viewer and, if we wanted, to then describe what we could see in the viewer. Elouise took the plunge and I reluctantly went next before the silence became deafening!\u00a0 \u00a0My description was of what looked like part of a country lane, grass verge with discarded litter of cans, food\/drink packaging, hedgerow, trees without leaves which meant possibly spring as there were small flowers in the grass verge (the image was monochrome) and a country gate with a sign saying \u2018private road\u2019. There were shadows which suggested the sun was shining.<\/p>\n<p>Jez checked the number on my viewer, \u2018three\u2019, and proceeded to find the corresponding notes in his book.\u00a0 This was the story; \u00a0Along his journey near the river Wye he came across the \u2018private road\u2019 notice on a lane and an elderly chap who he had a conversation with.\u00a0 The gentleman explained he had always walked along this lane to forage for hazel to carry out basket weaving.\u00a0 But as the land had now changed ownership and the signage had appeared this meant he was no longer able to walk his usual path ending his pastime of seventy years.\u00a0 In this tale Jez also highlighted how little of England\u2019s land we as the public are allowed to traverse.\u00a0 What used to be simply \u2018trespassing\u2019 with minimal knuckle rapping for straying from the path is soon to become a full criminal offence should we wander off certain pathways. \u00a0Ownership of land is hard to follow. Litter left, contrary to belief, is not the responsibility of the landowner to clear and the council do not have the funds to clean up and so it remains.<\/p>\n<p>The simple little photographic image opened up a whole world of debate on our green and pleasant land.<\/p>\n<p>This link that Jez has created between the environment, walking, photography and dialogue about ecology and land ownership will make an interesting interactive exhibition wherever he takes it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Hastings. Artist, Photographer and Storyteller. We had a visit from Jez Hastings today who explained that he is doing his PhD at Staffordshire University.\u00a0 Combining his knowledge of the geography of the land, walking along it and photographing it as he goes, Jez uses his photography to tell stories of his walks and encounters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berrow.me.uk\/alison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}