This orchard was one of the last orchards in a town that used to be renowned for them. It was a place of beauty, fertility, light and cool shade. It was place to observe the seasons and to watch apricots, plums, apples, ripening on the trees. It was a place where local children played and enjoyed routine connections to nature. Now, it is gone, erased, the fertile soils covered over with new white houses; lost.

My intention in my doctoral project, Lines of Sight: Being and Making With Place, was to photograph places undergoing existential change and in places where restorative or regenerative strategies are emerging in response to a rapidly changing climate - places of hope, places that show ways of living with the world. I am particularly interested in food producing sites, and places that offer routine connections to nature , and the potential impacts of the loss of these places on our food security, our capacity for empathy for nature and its non-human inhabitants, and our resilience.

By making a commitment to an extended and imaginative meditation in a representative group of places, recording the end of days in some, and new days in others, I hope this project will serve as a witness, archive and sentinel.