Rachael Marshall, Image from Documenting Station X, Blocks C and D I, Ten projected photographs, 2010-2012. |
An interview with Caroline, Maya and me has just been published on BBC News Beds, Herts & Bucks.
"They have lifted rust-covered surfaces from walls, recorded the
squawking of pigeons and other sounds from inside the decaying
buildings, and those that come from outside like the rumble of trains
from the nearby West Coast line."
World War
II Parachute Container. These were used to supply European Resistance
Groups with pigeon message carriers. Donated by Mrs Challis. Photograph
by Rachael Marshall.
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The pigeons at Bletchley Park are such a big part of the Station X project, so I went back to the Hut 8 for another look at the collection yesterday. This was after a quick look inside Block D, where I noticed that the bird that is on top of an old file in one of my photographs, 'Histories', in the exhibition is now on the floor where the sunlight doesn't reach its wings.