Yet still, it is hard not to love such a painstaking style of animation — claymation in particular — where you can often see the human
fingerprints on the clay characters where they have been bent and molded.
Walking in the landscape is the basis of Long's practice but over the past 40 years he has extended his concerns to encompass photographic and text - based work, sculptures made in stone and wood, small - scale works using handprints and
fingerprints on paper and driftwood, and monumental wall drawings made using mud and
clay.