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I have been experimenting with how to document these walks. Here is the latest version. Let me know your thoughts! Postcards from the Waste Land A virtual Walk

Work developed as a result of my growing interest in an underlying connectedness, holding an affinity with Huxley’s view of ancient Chinese landscapes as metaphors for the ‘Antipodes of the mind.’  Research and influences included: Expressionism, colour theory, Jung, Richard Wilhelm, […]

Welsh poetry has a system of rhymes, alliterations and counter-stresses called cynghanedd (being 1000 years older than English, there are strong roots beneath that rubble strewn ground). Despite being a bit of a mathematical formula, and fairly easy to follow, […]

2017, Untitled (2), 150cm x 100cm, acrylic, watercolour, emulsion and pencil on paper.  

My fourth short film is taken from a poem I wrote a few years ago while experiencing quite severe depression and would take a lot of long walks across the city, mostly looking at the ground.  I initially made a […]

My my, we are well into February aren’t we. Art-wise what have I got to show for it? It certainly has been a patchy month. Having received 2 bits of news, (one bad and one sad), I have to confess […]

Tog-Figurn (Day-Figures, 1930) Debora Vogel was born on the 4th of January. And to mark this day here is a short piece referring to her Top-Figurn poetry collection, an example of literary Cubism with its characteristic play of contours, colours […]

Manekinen (Mannequins, 1934) Manekinen collection is a subtle and ironic criticism of the state of society – the world of goods and advertising where objects become autonomous, mass produced, alienated from human agency. The border between what is real and […]

An explanation An introduction to my use of Quipus, Ropes and Knots as a way of documenting walks

After a few weeks of time off from the internship due to a house move, holidays, e.t.c. I was back at Glen Finglas to finalise the audio interpretation work for the internship project. The blackbox device had been sent off […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I’ve come late to the love of poetry, so I don’t know some of the things I should perhaps. I had a grammar school education which I tried to ignore as best I could. Even […]

After last weeks technology issues, I’ve returned to editing new material with enthusiasm. The new tracks below are the written work of Glen Finglas volunteer Gill Walker (@Gillw10). Gill is a keen outdoor and environmental enthusiast and a current upland […]

It’s been a wee while since my last blog update so this post will cover a few things that have developed in the project from June. I have collected some additional field recordings over the last two weeks including some […]

After a few weeks of reflecting on the audio that I have already completed, I was pleased to receive feedback from the Glen Finglas site ranger Gwen Raes. She is very happy with how the sound work is developing and […]

Having finished 14 diagram poems I’m ready to start finding order amongst seemingly random stanzas. These are all going to be framed for the exhibition as well as several of them being printed as a limited edition booklet for visitors […]

After a few weekends of editing I have completed some of my tracks for the Interpretation Internship work. Six are finished to date – these all incorporate field recordings, creative writings that have been recorded as spoken word and recordings […]