Although from Kent, Head’s family, on his father’s side, were originally from Burwash in Sussex. Several years ago, Head took his own family, his wife and four children on holiday to Sussex. They found the Head family graves in Burwash and revisited the coastal resorts where Head had often holidayed as a child.
This is a fictive landscape reminiscent of the landscape around Hastings. Just inland is the Ashdown Forest which Head remembers passing through on the long drive to the coast. The topography morphs into numerous figures, dominated by a profile of Head’s father looking out to sea.