The New Liberty of the Clink
2022
‘The New Liberty of the Clink’ is a contrived, shimmering neon microclimate where darkness reveals lost rhythms in human existences and stimulates the behaviour to rewild London. Prisoners, convicted of environmental wrongdoing by the Court of the Clink, lead a primitive existence in their autonomous garden complex. The aim is personal desistance, the empowerment of synanthropic birds within their delicate urban ecosystem and the consequent realisation of mutual fulfilment and natural affinity. I propose reintroducing the Liberty of the Clink on the historic Palace of Winchester jurisdiction boundary. Inmates are rewilded to a primitive level of innate understanding after environmental crimes, using the natural world as both punishment and rehabilitation.
