" Tok means 'path', 'road' or 'gate' but as it is used in song, the sense is more that of 'map'. The device refers to the way that a song, from start to finish, projects not merely a description of places, but a journey. The song is successful when listeners are totally suspended into a journeying mood, experiencing the passage of song and poetic time as the passage of a journey. Constructing a song as a path, or tok, sets the listeners on a journey during which they simultaneously experience a progression of deeply felt sentiments associated with them…All songs are sung from the point of view of movement through lands. The composers craft is not to tell people about places but to suspend them into those places. Singing a place is not a descriptive act but rather one that 'impregnates' identity into place"
an extract from; WILD- an elemental journey by Jay Griffiths
i like this idea of giving the listener or viewer in my case, the ability to project themselves into the place you are describing. i guess it's to evoke an emotional and personal response. i like the idea of my work not describing something specific but acting as a tool to provoke questions in the viewer about themselves and their own relationships with their environment.
N
RIGHT! i am finally going to add some stuff to this blog, i have a bit of a build up of it so forgive me if i bombard the the blog for a brief time.
'Sense of place' makes me first think of land and it's history, the memories that are embedded in that land and also the buildings, roads, walls, concrete that has inevitably been added to it. I think a person's relationship with a place is very interesting as it is always going to be different depending on their knowledge of that place, personnal experience, how they feel that day. I have been fascinated for a while now with spaces and how they change with the interaction of human presence, it interests me that the feel of a space or area of land can alter dramatically from the addition of a person or people. I think people underestimate the impact they have on their environment, physically and spiritually, and also underestimate how much of an impact a place can have on them.
I have been slowly gathering a range of photo's, images and drawings to work from that relate to this train of thought, i seem to be drawn to images where the person is having a strange or interesting relationship with their space.
Nichola
A great day learning the art of lino cut printing from Paul Catherall
Alison and I are about start working on joint prints. Brunei has become our focus place.
Al these are the photographs of the Chinese temple.
My Partners print has arrived with some additional information. I discover that by coincidence we are both using maps. It is a first stage etching – the beginning.
