Jake Williams

Jake Williams who lives alone within miles of forest in Aberdeenshire Scotland Jake always has many jobs on at any one time finds a use for everything is an expert mandolin player and has compost heaps going back many years He has a different sense of time to most people in the 21st Century which is explicitly expressed in his idea for creating hedges by putting up bird feeders It struck me straight away that there were parallels between our ways of working I have tried to be as selfreliant as possible and be apart from the idea of industry Jakes life and garden are much the same he can sustain himself from what he grows and so needs little from others To Jake this isnt about nostalgia for some treasured preelectric past but more a very real future Ben Rivers