From time to time I will post 'bite size' chunks of the material I am preparing for my PhD thesis: works in progress, but content which I feel may be of interest to a wider audience. All will be very much draft versions, not necessarily - probably not ...
Month: January 2016
25th January 2016
Skeletal trees line my immediate horizon, the night sky behind above around them a powdery chemicalised orange, nuclear fall-out. The wind blows through my hair, sends it cascading across the lower half of my face, silk twine on tongue. In this LED evening I have night camera vision and the breeze scrapes dry, rattling leaves […]
PhD research paper #2. The study of monastic landscapes
From time to time I will post 'bite size' chunks of the material I am preparing for my PhD thesis: works in progress, but content which I feel may be of interest to a wider audience. All will be very much draft versions, not necessarily - probably not ...
Setting sail
"There is another side of attention which is not that the world is waiting for us to attend to it but rather that we are waiting for the world. It means waiting on things. It means being prepared to push the boat out into a world where everything is...
Time – He’s waiting in the wings
The BBC write: The Vatican's chief spokesman on cultural matters, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, tweeted lyrics to Space Oddity in tribute to Bowie while Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said he was "very very saddened to hear of his death". Well how...
Exeter City FC versus Liverpool FC – match report
The highlight of this game - overlooking the score - was the close-up of the ball. Tisdale had bought a permanent marker and inscribed ECFC on it in case Benteke thought about nicking it.
There’s joy in a simple place
Not that I need an excuse for a walk, but inspired by my current read - Rob Cowan's superb nature/landscape/memoir, Common Ground - and buoyed by the small victory of producing a first basic map in a new (to me) GIS package, I headed around m...
Walking-Drawing
I started this research during my MA final project. I am now revisiting this walking and drawing practice with artist Phill Harding. We listen, we observe, we draw, we walk, we talk. We practice attentiveness and focus on perception through... Continue Reading →