In my favorite bookstore, Barter Books, in the old station in Alnwick, Northumberland, I found an old edition of Bewick’s woodcuts. One of them shows a dog fearful of faces and monstrous creatures seen in some trees at night. (Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) — wood-engraver and natural history author…
hylography
insignificants
A marvelous talk today at Stanford from Tim Flohr Sørensen (Copenhagen) about his project – Insignificants – [Link]. So much in a short report on such a beautifully simple experiment. Archaeologists often pride themselves on taking up what is overlooked, insignificant, discarded as irrelevant, detritus, mere traces, garbage. But what does this involve? What happens…
the sorting of the waves
Pebbles. Storebaelt, North Sea – [Link] One year after one year after. (click on image for slideshow)
metamorphoses – Silva
Concept: et in Arcadia ego – [Link] Hendy Woods, Anderson Valley, California. simul simul abdita texit ora frutexhidden at the same time bark covered their mouths Ovid Metamorphoses 8.718-9
materiality of the invisible
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,…
cloud studies
Out in the field and a return to the breakup of Britain. Northern coasts, part of my chorography of the English-Scottish borders [Link]
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