2 Herons Crossing in Flight records a landscape after an encounter. The birds themselves are absent from the frame. I saw them earlier — one grey, one white — rising simultaneously from opposite banks of a marsh dyke and crossing midair as I stepped onto a red brick bridge. The photograph holds the ground they moved through rather than the spectacle of their flight.

The work emerged from a reverse pilgrimage from St Clement’s Church, New Romney, to Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, led by Iain Sinclair and Andrew Kötting. The six-hour walk expanded a modest 2.5 hour estimate into an endurance shaped by weather, navigation, and shifting group dynamics. Landscape operated not as backdrop but as active participant.

The photograph resists illustration. It holds tension between witness and evidence, between lived encounter and visual record. By documenting duration — six hours, sixteen minutes — the work grounds a fleeting event in measured time while refusing to reproduce it.

Walking forms the structure of my practice. Whether collective or solitary, I approach landscape through sustained attention and care rather than conquest. This work sits within ongoing explorations of psychogeographic method, liminal space, and the ethics of encounter.