'Touch Wood' is an artist's book I completed in 2020.
The hand-painted text derives from a series of 'manouevres' I performed, solitarily, in Bethnal Green Nature Reserve and Herb Garden in 2019-20, during my residency there. After each exploratory walk around the site, where I would manoeuvre my body with the plants and trees and stones, I would then retreat to the Writer's Hut and write my account in detail from memory. Later, in the hut, I would distill these descriptions into poetry, hand-painted in my book, landscape-orientated. Each page began with the last word of the previous page. There are snips of my hair between some pages, as I used the book in one of my performances at the Nature Reserve, where I cut my hair.
