A Blunt Instrument…
is a sequence of fourteen images originated on large-format negative and published in 2025.
Featuring the traces of tracked military vehicles on the soft ground of Salisbury Plain. Part of the British Army’s
Salisbury Plain Training area, this is land my father farmed during the 1960s when the area was leased from the army
for agricultural production. It is where I spent an idylic early childhood, and in these fields would often play at ‘soldiers’.
The title A Blunt Instrument … is a reference to political scientist John Mearshaimer’s
observation on the use of military force for international relations.