During this walk, partly thinking of Richard Long's walks where he picks up and discards objects along his path I mindlessly collected objects along the way: a twig, a mushroom, some dried leaves, a daisy, some blackberries, a discarded cigarette butt...
These humdrum objects of the English countryside made me think of the more exotic (for us) plants and objects of the far east and south seas where Cook travelled: cinnamon, nutmeg, exotic fruits, carved objects, coconuts...
In layering these two times and place - 2010 North Yorkshire and 1779 the Pacific - over the top of each other the walk to the monument became a re-memorial that re-contextualised this Yorkshire man for our times and our post-colonial perspective. At the memorial I laid out my objects and wrote the short text that is reproduced here.
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