T E Lawrence. Cloud's Hill, from a BBC Documentary, One Foot in the Past. 1997
Identity is the theme of the current issue of On Site review – very slippery, very mutable, it starts with a question: do you fit where you live?
A couple of days ago I mentioned T E Lawrence's house in Dorset, Cloud's Hill. Here is a clip from a BBC program, quite a while ago if Ralph Fiennes' lovely youthfulness is anything to go by. It isn't embedded, as that has been disabled, but the image is linked to the video.
Cloud's Hill was, to Lawrence, part of himself: it was him. It was like him, he made it, it corresponded directly with his values and his identity. It is not often that can be said of where we live.