ripples and wrens
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I've been thinking for a while about how what we think of as time - Standardised Swatch Internet Time - is challenged by the myriad geological, astronomical and ecological timescales all around us. This work came from waves, 400 million year old ripples and wrens on North Ronaldsay, from watching a wasps byke for a season and from following the old paths of badgers on the west coast.