The Downs is a shortened version of the name given to the landscape near my home, site of various projects since 2015 when I used a Tumblr account – SLWRNR – to log 100 runs around the Downs in descriptions of exactly 100 words. These reports became the book A Downland Index (2016) designed by Colin Sackett at uniformbooks. The Makina Books publication Night Blooms attends to a smaller sample of the Downs, reconnoitring night-time flowers in text and photography. An even tighter focus was chosen for Mirrors, a self-published exploration designed by Emily of Stanley James Press of my obsession with one particular dewpond, some five miles from my front door.
