01 · Photographs · Ireland · 2013

Cogiendo palos

A figure in a red raincoat carries a kitchen chair into worked land and sits with its back to us. We don't look at the person; we look with them. Where Zonzo began.

A figure in a red raincoat sits on a wooden chair at the end of a jetty, facing a lough

I · The jetty

The figure seated in the middle of the jetty, facing the lough

The figure in the red raincoat, seen from behind, seated before the water

The figure seated in a green field under a white sky

The seated figure, tiny at the end of a beech avenue

The chair is a domestic object carried into open land — the same gesture as Zonzo's archive hidden in a Maria biscuit.

II · The avenue

The figure sits between the rails of a narrow-gauge bog railway

The figure sits in a cut-over peat field striped with tyre tracks

III · The bog railway IV · The peat cutting

Rails and peat cuttings are worked land: landscape as labour. The red hood is the one fixed point that lets every place be measured against the same body.

The figure sits in a wide meadow with hedges behind

V · The field

The wooden chair alone on the jetty, facing the water

The seat is yours.

VI · The empty chair

The horse, in a hi-vis vest with an L-plate, rides a bicycle through a snowy show-jumping arena

Same raincoat, new headYear of the Horse →The 2014 calendar, built from these first sketches.