23-25 MAY 2025 Coker Court, East Coker
Od Arts Festival 2025 –  Thinking in Circles

Very excited to be making a new version of Red Hot Haystacks for Od Arts Festival 2025 – Thinking in Circles. Using a combination of black light and wild meadow grass, Red Hot Haystacks explores ideas around the unseen environmental impact of human activity through a story of nuclear testing in the 1960s. High levels of radiation were reported on the coasts each side of the Pentland Firth that separates mainland Scotland from the Orkney archipelago. The seas proved too treacherous to complete any survey, but later, soil particles from haystacks contaminated by atmospheric nuclear testing, were described geologists as Red Hot.