Yesterday I had the great honor to open a remarkable exhibition of artworks at the Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht – multiform institute for fine art, design and reflection Curators: Lex ter Braak, Director of Van Eyck and Huib Haye van der Werf, Head of Artistic Program. The exhibition runs through The Van Eyck Academie, Marres,…
archaeological sensibility
place/event – the Titanic (or not)
Places are always associated with happenings – actualities, potentialities, imaginings, documented or not. place/event Here’s a variation. In 1935-6 the liner RMS Olympic was broken up at Jarrow on the River Tyne, and hotelier Algenon Smart bought the fittings from the First Class dining room for his hotel, the White Swan in Alnwick, Northumberland. The…
returning
The past comes back to haunt in all sorts of ways. This is a key feature of the archaeological imagination. It may be something like “this happened here”, or “this was the way it was, and still is”. And, as archaeologists, as all of us do – we return, revisit, rehearse, reiterate, repeat. This familiar…
lost in the post
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.
archaeological pen
Japanese bog ash. Fraxinus mandshurica or Fraxinus sieboldiana. “Kojiro Tamo Chijimimoku”. Ancient wood recovered from a bog in Japan. Pen by Motoshi Kazuno – [Link]
the future of archaeological theory – looking forward with Ben Cullen
On the anniversary of the untimely and sudden death in 1995 of Ben Cullen, archaeologist and anthropologist. Now twenty years past – how time accelerates. And in April 2015 Ian Gollop, his friend who found him that December morning, died in St Dogmael’s, West Wales – [Link] [Link] Previous thoughts – [Link] [Link] [Link] [Link]…
You must be logged in to post a comment.