Urn Burial is a ritual I performed at Urn Field at the closing of the Folkestone Triennial, as a means of metaphorically burying Urn Field. The title is taken from the 1658 book by Thomas Browne (Hydriotaphia/Urne Buriall).

For the Urn Burial ritual I dyed cloths with foraged blackberries, some from the Urn Field site, and covered each sculpture in turn. As I did so, I recited a text addressing each sculpture by its name which corresponded to a plant I had aligned it. My text is in the gallery above. I made ceramic seed-inspired weights on ropes to anchor/attach the cloths to the sculptures. At Plantain I gave my audience each a plantain leaf I had pressed in clay and fired, as a votive/relic. At Blackberry I offered the audience blackberries, and at Blackthorn we drank sloe gin. At Elder we drank elderflower cordial and shared apple cakes I had made. I wanted to celebrate the ecology of the site, and as you can see in the film, the sculptures are being gently surrounded and consumed by plants.