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Roger Ackling (1947-2014) made artworks using found wooden objects, beach flotsam and jetsam, broken crates and lost carpentry which he marked with dense black lines and shapes. These lines and shapes were formed by burning lines into the wood using focused sunlight through a magnifying lens. Sometimes the wooden objects were burnt and transcribed where they were found, be it on a beach or in the countryside. The lines on the work being thicker the closer the sun was to the Earth (be that summer or nearer to the equator) and different parts of the world produced different weathering and …