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.
Heatherslaw Light Railway
We went from the Scottish Borders to Northumberland to finally ride a light railway we’d been trying to visit for the past three years. The station felt real and alive. We could smell engine oil and the sharp scent of sulphur from burning coal. 0:00 /0:12 1×
Ford Castle
Leonie and Charlie set off together for Ford Castle, eager to capture sweeping drone shots of the storied landmark.
T.E.R.F.S
Gender-critical groups co-opt Suffragette green and purple as "dog whistles" for trans-exclusion. Sparked by legal cases like Forstater, a "solitary call" triggers orchestrated digital dog-piling. Thousands of hostile posts weaponise algorithms to incite anxiety and scapegoat a minority.
Jedburgh Abbey
Léonie's drone pictures of Jedburgh Abbey.