When we are at the CORRIDOR project we spend a lot of time on the river, under the dam wall, where the environment has been scrubbed bare by numerous flood events. The scale of the human intervention has created a dramatic landscape but our focus is the micro ecologies of algae that abound when the water is turned off. We are fascinated by the contrasting scales - one minute jumping over the huge boulders, a giant body of water above us, held back by human engineering. Then staring for hours into tiny stagnant pools filled with simple primitive rootless plants, bubbling, flowing and dancing in the sunlight.

This landscape feels eerie. We find the algae beautiful but it makes the water feel unhealthy, even though the circumstance clearly work for these plants and they are thriving. It is unavoidable to make value judgements about landscapes and it is hard to avoid centring the human experience or the experiences of the species that we have alliances with.

When we are in the fields we also find ourselves drawn to the finely built worlds of the spiders, their webs glistening in the dawn dew and first light.