I have incorporated hand made inks into my current work, which I love because the process is elongated and multi layered. The foraging and processing of the plants is an elemental part of it. I don’t gather plants from exquisite gardens or areas of affluence and abundance, but scrappy wall-growing shrubs, weedy marginal places in towns and cities, and soon-to-be-developed away land. I feel an affinity with this. I look at how much insects prefer certain things, such as clover on a lawn about to be mown, or an overgrown ivy. Perhaps I’ll make an ink out of these next. I like how Jason Logan, whose book Make Ink was in inspiration to me, makes his ink from plants, and even abandoned bits of masonry and iron, he forages for on scrappy in-between areas in cities and towns.