WITCH & ANDY

Andy has worked as a gardener at Blue Gate Fields School in east London on and off for 15 years. He tends a series of raised beds for the youngest kids, he sows sunflowers, cabbages, lettuces, berry bushes and beans. He also grows strawberries and tomatoes, these are always harvested for him, normally before they’ve fully ripened. Twenty years ago the school burnt down, it was hurredly rebuilt and just last year its entrance, which had never been big enough, was redeveloped. Two concrete columns flanked the old doors, each one ringed by a series of shallow shelves creaking under the weight of wobbly clay spiders, fairies and footballers, cats and witches. One morning Andy arrived at work to find that the building work had begun. Peering out from under the wreckage of the demolished columns were scattered the cast of creatures that the kids had made. Andy rescued as many as he could, the witch and her cat now live in his kitchen.

29 Jul 2012