Edlingham, Northumberland UK. Series – TVRRIS. (The tower appeared on the cover of my 1992 book Experiencing the Past – [Link] ) Archaeographic notes: There emerged in eighteenth-century Europe a distinctively modern aesthetic of ruin, part of an antiquarian and romantic sensibility. This series aims to question, reconfigure, reanimate the picturesque castle ruin in the…
Northumberland
Map on a wall
Border county of Northumberland [Link] – Three Landscapes Project, Studio Michael Shanks Stanford University 2000
Archaeological shores: reflections on a metaphysics of cartography
Field notes. The pragmatics of an archaeological sensibility — what might one do in an archaeological visit to the beach? For as long as I can remember maps have made me anxious. Where does one draw the line of a coast, a road, a river? In archaeological excavation one is regularly required to document, record,…
a physiognomy of angels
With Mike Pearson in Elsdon churchyard, Northumberland, England.
Craster – basalt foreshore
Another experiment in hylography – [Link] [Link] Craster, Northumberland UK
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