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Author: Michael Shanks

stone body

February 26, 2016July 26, 2016 by Michael Shanks

In Elsdon churchyard (Northumberland) with Mike Pearson. Anthony Gormley – Allotment – Concrete boxes made to measure for residents of Malmo [Link]

Posted in (re)framing, contemporary art, figure and ground, figure in a landscape, integument, memento mori, memory practices, Pearson|Shanks, the spectral Tagged Anthony Gormley, coffin, Elsdon, materialities, Mike Pearson

cloud study

February 21, 2016July 7, 2016 by Michael Shanks

Prehistoric round house, Coquet Valley, Northumberland. On location with Mike Pearson.

Posted in borderlands, chorography, landscapes, photography, thresholds Tagged Lordenshaws, Mike Pearson, Rothbury Leave a comment

lost in the post

February 20, 2016July 7, 2016 by Michael Shanks

Ben in the old kitchen of the Estate Manager’s house, Cragside. Taken on expired (June 2001) Polaroid 690 in summer 2012, lost and forgotten, found again when I was heading back there this February 2016.

Posted in (past) presences, archaeological sensibility, missives, nostos - the return, presence Tagged Cragside, Polaroid Leave a comment

Cragside, Northumberland

February 20, 2016July 15, 2016 by Michael Shanks

Scene of crime. Investigating with Mike Pearson. Home and estate of the First Lord Armstrong. Now in the hands of The National Trust.

Posted in "this happened here", (re)framing, archaeological imagination, borderlands, chorography, critical heritage, cultural politics, figure and ground, signal and noise Tagged Armstrong, Cragside, critical heritage, Mike Pearson

postbox

February 19, 2016July 19, 2016 by Michael Shanks

A returning fascination with postal systems (… The Crying of Lot 49) – see the section on the postcard in my “Experiencing the Past” – [Link] Expired Polaroid film stock (Type 690) – 2006. Camera – NPC 195.  

Posted in archaeological imagination, entropy, missives, nostos - the return, photography, signal and noise Leave a comment

a physiognomy of angels

February 17, 2016December 21, 2020 by Michael Shanks

With Mike Pearson in Elsdon churchyard, Northumberland, England.

Posted in borderlands, chorography, figure in a landscape, memento mori, nostos - the return, Pearson|Shanks Tagged Elsdon, Mike Pearson, Northumberland Leave a comment

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Exploring the archaeological imagination – to gain a bigger picture on things that matter.

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