Machine Learning reflects on a historic steam engine to explore how machines shape power, land and labour, paralleling past industrial control with today’s predictive technologies.

Torrential rain & flooding, Britains first 'Extreme Weather Event' with a week in the mid 30's gives me mixed feelings on the launch of this new work - I hope CES not to be the harbinger of doom, but wondering on what a follow up vehicle might look like and what its function might be ? Opening a deeper set of questions on remedies, creating policy change and personal behaviour as we watch the world catch fire and severe flooding in Germany less than a week ago. What are the

September 2021 Climate Emergency Services , a memorably customised vehicle that dramatises the role of fossil fuels in climate change and plays with the value hierarchies of the motor industry. This conflicted hot rod incorporates the latest technologies for sensing air quality and other pollution and constitutes a roving observatory that will visit festivals and schools. Digital imaging with Jamie Bubb and Engineering with Ewen Sergisson. LINK

Originally published in Wild Times (Doncaster DNA - and since writing (post covid-19) started a new project #BirdsongOnthePlanetoftheApes) William Ruskin (1819-1900), thinker, critic and artist urges us to make sense of our environment, by directly by observing every detail, being in and studying nature (some of which took place on his walks in Yorkshire). Artists across time have layered observation, curiosity, material exploitation and imagination, to explore our place