Ceramic artist. I write about applied arts and design history, mainly Britain in the early 20th century with a focus on the place where art and industry meet.
Tombstones covered in ivy or damaged by weather become lovelier in their shape, posture, colour and texture. Some inscriptions peep out from ivy fronds; some stones have been completely suffocated by plant growth.
Highgate
Highgate
Highgate
Highgate
Where there is a regime of herbicide, tombstones don’t get covered like this but the weather still erodes them or the ground undermines them.
