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Cup and Ring – Haunted by a Symbol
I am being haunted by a symbol! During the summer a visitation to one of the richest sites of ancient psychogeographic energy – Kilmartin Glen. In particular the cup and ring marks at Auchnabreck, led...
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Cup and Ring on The Binn – Burntisland
In a previous post, I wrote of being haunted by the cup and ring symbol. In this wired, digital world, these cross-cultural, cross-geographic ciphers are all around us. Infiltrating our consciousness...
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Rosyth Edgelands Dérive
We are in dangerous territory, walking westward out of the town of Rosyth, along the A985, one of ‘Britain’s killer roads’. This arterial incision into the connective tissue of the Rosyth edgelands...
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This Land…
◊ This land these rocks and stones vessels of deep time being before being inscribed in landscape before being named and claimed as landscape. This land a made place a place...
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On the Coffin Road
We approach the village from the North by the coffin road known as Windylaw. A sign indicates that this path was used for many centuries by people to carry their dead to Rosyth Church. Sometimes they...
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Ephemera – A short visual drift through the Edinburgh New Town
P e d a g o g y ~ C o n v e r g e / E n t w i n e ~ B r o u g h t o n M a r k e t w i t h r a i n b o w ~ T h e O l d / T h e N e w ~ B r o u g h t o n S t r e e t w i t h s m u d g e o f m o...
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The Poppies are in the Field: Pattiesmuir 26th June 2013
. The poppies are in the field But don’t ask me what that means - Julian Cope There is no long march of progress in this field. No future enlightenment to strive for....
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La Pasionaria and the Psychedelic Tiger: A short wander in Glasgow, 10th July...
Watch a street and you become it. You construct, if so inclined, a narrative: but you are also part of the witnessed event. You shape what you see. Iain Sinclair, Edge of the Orison In Glasgow....
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Echoes of the Pioneers: Three Beehives in Leven
Recently, we have been visiting the area around the coastal town of Leven. A fairly long piece is slowly coming to fruition. Until then, here is a short post. ≈ Walk up Durie Street in Leven and...
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A silent witness to the stories of place
The unfolding spiral begins with the star, the sea and the fishes. A story of place formed at the threshold of land and tidal flows. Named after the earliest human dwellings, the caves. Inhabited and...
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Ephemera: Found totem
. Found totem Forest clearing . Now playing: The Sarsen Circle – The Sarsen Circle (Live)
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worlds within worlds
. worlds within worlds worlds within worlds worlds within worlds worlds within worlds worlds within worlds worlds within worlds worlds within worlds worlds within worlds worlds within worlds worlds...
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Plants, potters, webs: On forms, usefulness and emptiness
With the clocks about to go back this weekend, autumnal hues cloak the body and seep into the skin. The piercing light of summer is almost emptied out. Weak threads of sunlight dissolve amongst russet,...
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A Huddersfield Bestiary – with Kingfisher
the handsomest by far of all the factory towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire Friedrich Engels In hindsight, it was perhaps inevitable. Brought to this town by a Wolf(f) and a Cow, (1) the animistic...
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Alphabet Street Cipher
. . . . Now playing: The Jesus And Mary Chain – Alphabet Street (Cover).
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Underneath the M90
Up above, the sound is like a collision of thunder arriving from north and south. Traffic heading to unknown destinations, running up and down the asphalt spine of the M90 motorway. Here, underneath...
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‘Keep walking intently’
‘Keep walking intently’ Takehisa Kosugi’s text score Theatre Music. Text score from Michael Nyman, Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Second edition, 1999)....
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From Hill to Sea – Book Update
From Hill to Sea: Dispatches from the Fife Psychogeographical Collective, 2010 – 2014 is published by Bread and Circuses Publishing. After a successful launch at the Edinburgh Independent &...
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The All Seeing Eye
How many time have I walked down Dunfermline High Street and never noticed this all-seeing eye? (Thanks to my daughter for spotting it). It’s located at the top of the current Clydesdale Bank...
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Good Times = 2016 =
Perhaps just another graffiti strewn doorway but the phrase “Good Times = 2016 =” called out. I doubt that there are many people I know who would readily conflate 2016 and ‘good times’. So just a...
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