I recorded these yesterday - one on the headland a few feet from the cliff edge - the other in Old Nick's Field (the long field on the way to Old Harry Rocks) just before I scooped them up into plastic bags. The field mole hill is also a few yards from the cliff edge. You can tell the ones which have been newly made and I selected two really fresh ones. I like them best when I see the earth move.
I'm going to pot them up and water them and watch the chalk land plants grow. Moles sift hidden matter from the dark and they deposit it on the surface where it can meet the light and germinate. The soil in mole hills is beautifully sifted and it is good to incorporate into work- I think I heard that gardeners use them too.
Also I feel there is an affinity with what I'm doing as I grind and sift the cliff and beach matter and what the mole is doing- although the mole moves into spaces I can only imagine.
Anybody who knows the terrain will be surprised to see a person on the Foreland. He is an art student from The Slade School of art (called James I think) setting up an installation. The other figure is a photographer recording the event. This morning he was still there.
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