I came across this early ‘painting’ the other day and thought it had worn well over 14 years; so I am giving it an airing.

At the time (2003) I was travelling alot on behalf of UNESCO and ICOMOS promoting the idea and practice of ‘cultural landscape’ as a type of World Heritage site. One of the most memorable places I visited was the vast extent of irrigated fields stepping up steep slopes in the mountainous region of the Cordilleras, Luzon, in the northern Philippines. This was what lay behind this work, one of a number I did at the time using different seeds/grain in a rather ambitious (uncompleted) series on the theme of staple foods.