The detricons are another sub-category within The Wide Horizon theme. They accommodate the need to engage with the 'stuff' encountered on the land - materials gathered from innumerable walks in, and surveys of, the landscape. The process by which materials are selected as appropriate simultaneously opens up another agenda concerning questions of utility and value.

By definition, the materials chosen are discarded, either the products of natural processes of erosion or the wanton profligacy of human culture. Their presence in the landscape subjects these fragments to the various local processes of decay. They are distressed or abraded into a form capable of carrying an image - vehicle-crushed cans from the roadside, sea-smoothed flotsam from the beach, weather-shattered slate from the field..... The idealising process of landscape, inherent in its history, conventions and usage, is subverted, or at least challenged, by this realisation on particles of detritus - the ever-present evidence of entropy, the underlying disintegration of things.