Having decided to go back to the twisted fence I used in Fence and Skull, Ken and I trespassed across the neighbour's paddock and photographed the fence from every angle. That's Ken holding up the end

post, which had collapsed since I photographed it from the edge of the paddock before. It will be obvious that it's very difficult to separate the wire from the background. (I never did resolve exactly which strand of wire is going where.) Currently, the paddock is bright green with young barley, upon which I may not tread.

I was happier with the header, having lost the weak backend of it, but happiest of all with the mud. Again and again I have abandoned the attempt to cover a third of the canvas in a brown perspective from a vast distance to right up close and changed it to grass or something else, but I think I've finally cracked it

** There are more notes on the fence on the Compare Fences Page.