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.
posts – matters of design
Cragside, Northumberland
Scene of crime. Investigating with Mike Pearson. Home and estate of the First Lord Armstrong. Now in the hands of The National Trust.
postbox
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.
a physiognomy of angels
With Mike Pearson in Elsdon churchyard, Northumberland, England.
archaeological pen
Japanese bog ash. Fraxinus mandshurica or Fraxinus sieboldiana. “Kojiro Tamo Chijimimoku”. Ancient wood recovered from a bog in Japan. Perhaps 3000 years old. 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]…
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