TERFs in Exile: The Architecture of the Digital Enclave
The Green Party faces a calculated campaign: a modular, multi-litigant project to displace inclusive policy and dismantle human rights.
Concrete and Coil: Unpacking the Decline of the Klein Studio
The Bernat Klein studio: from modernist sanctuary to a site of defensive isolation. A clinical look at the architecture of neglect.
The Woodburn Rhubarb Patch: Crumble, Chutney, and Neighborly Gifts
From bitter medicine to backyard crumbles, country wine, and sharing the seasonal glut over the fence at Woodburn. Read our new post!
The Envelope of Light: Phenomenological Impressions from the Garden
Our garden is a room without walls, vaulted by an ever-changing celestial ceiling. Here, we inhabit an envelope of light where the sky dictates the rhythm of the day. Within these boundaries, we observe, we breathe, and we reclaim our sanctuary from the noise of the world beyond.
The Hauntology of Eight Quid: How a Cornish Pottery Set Found a Home in the Borders
From street homeless in a 2020 lockdown caravan, to a secure Borders home. An £8 vintage Cornish pottery set brings all my ghosts into one room.
Blood, Soil, and the Common Good: The Architecture of Border Hegemony
Leonie analyses the dynamics of belonging in the Scottish Borders, mapping the overlaps between micro-local patriotism and exclusionary nationalism to demonstrate how local heritage unintentionally codifies birthright privilege.
Toxic Village: The Spatial Policing of Belonging
Reflecting on the distinct challenges faced during a twenty-two-month residency in Ancrum, Léonie deconstructs the idyllic rural facade to reveal a 'Potemkin village'—an illusion of community that profoundly influenced her lived experience
Grasskeep
Leonie is fiercely committed to helping Charlie see the job through to the end.
Shearing in the rain
Leonie joins Charlie in shearing sheep beneath the steady rain at Abbotsford, their teamwork undeterred by the weather.
Shearing
Leonie and Charlie haul hurdles across the field and skillfully shear two ewes on their lush Abottsford grass keep.
Branxholme Castle
Leonie sends her drone gliding above the storied towers of Branxholme Castle, capturing its ancient grandeur from the sky.
Etal castle
Leonie and Charlie step off the Lady Augusta steam locomotive and set out to discover the charms of Etal village.