Untitled blog post from "Land art project"

By Peter Watkins - Artist-in-Residence

When driving the 660 miles, the twelve-and-a-half hours, and what seems like, and almost is, the entire length of France, its incredible how you see. (Tyres ceaselessly rolling over toll-standard tarmac, service stations, watchful mullets, exchange students, dependable good tasting coffee, more tarmac, travel-tired eyes, broken English, a conversation about swans between two impossibly European men, the taste of yellow, insects accumulating, temperature rising, increasingly picturesque views from urinal windows, tarmac, toll booths, tickets, the colour orange, then darkness and headlights).

I’ve travelled to the south of France to visit Jonathan and Helen Moss to partake in their Atelier artists’ residency scheme. Over the coming two weeks I’ll be working on a permanent site-specific installation, a light and sound performance, as well as various painted-projections in the surrounding Pyrenees. This blog will be updated regularly and will look to give some insight into my time here and how the residency unfolds.