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Category Archives: Folk-Lore
Safe Harbours and Energy Zones – a wander around ‘The Path’.
a tidal log book: salt, moon, sun, wind ≈ I – Kirkcaldy Harbour To think of the journeys that have started and ended here. Safe harbour: a place of refuge or shelter. Arrivals and departures, crossing borders. Time measured in tidal flows. A … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera - Encounters, Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Field Trip, Folk-Lore, Found Art, Poetry, Psychogeography, rag-pickings
Tagged Adam Smith, arctic, aurora borealis, Brion Cemetry, Carl Andre, Carlo Scarpa, coastal energies, comets, Darien Scheme, Deep Time, Den Burn, Dovecot, energy antenna, energy landscape, energy zone, Fife, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, Fringes of Fife, From Hill to Sea, graffiti, Jean Paul Jones, John Buchan, John Geddie, John Watson and Euphan Orrock, Joseph Beuys, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcaldy Harbour, linoleum, Lord Gambier, Macbeth, MacDuff Castle, MacDuff Earls of Fife, Merchants House, Michael Nairn, Murdo Eason, Nairn's Folly, oystercatchers, Pathhead, Pathhead Sands, Ravens Craig flats, Ravenscraig Castle, Rev. Robert Shirra, sailor's grave, sun dogs, swifts, Thane of Fife, The 39 Steps, uDunnikier Union Church, Valery Anisenko, walking, whale a manufactory, Whaling
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Embedded in the Landscape: Psychogeography, Folk Horror and the Everyday
I’ve had a few requests to share the talk I gave at The Unseelie Court event organised by Folk Horror Revival in October. So here it is: We’ll come back to that guy on the slide later. I’m guessing … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborations, Field Trip, Folk-Lore, Observation, Poetry, Psychogeography, Quote
Tagged A Field in England, Alan Moore, Amy Jump, Élisée Reclus, Baldastard, Ballard, Balwearie Castle, Battle of Inverkeithing, Battle of Pitreavie, Ben Jonson, Ben Wheatley, Big Black Cat Sightings, Brian Lavelle, Charles Mackie, Clackmannanshire, Clan Maclean, Croatia, Crombie Point, Cromwell, Dante, dérive, deer, Devilla Forest, Doocot, Fife Coast, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, Folk Horror Revival, Folk-Lore, From Hill to Sea, Glenrothes, Guy Debord, Henry Beveridge, Istria, J. Walter Fewkes, John Duncan, Joseph Beuys, Jules Verne, Kate Walker, Kincardine, Kirkcaldy, Language of Objects, Largo Law, Lettrists, Lilias Adie, Marc Augé, Menstrie, Michael Scot, Motovun, Murdo Eason, Norrie's Law, Patrick Geddes, Pattiesmuir, Pauline Oliveros, Pitreavie Castle, Plague Graves, psychogeography, roe deer, Rosyth, Rosyth Dockyard, Sir Patrick Spens, Situationists, Tales for Travellers, The Divine Comedy, The Riders of the Sidhe, The Unseelie Court, Torry Bay, Torryburn, Wicker Man, Windylaw, Wisława Szymborska, witchcraft, witches rock, Wizard of Balwearie, Yoko Ono
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Following Ben Jonson: From Culross to Dunfermline
To begin the journey, we congregate almost four hundred years after Jonson. In front of the Palace walls, a set of variations in muted ochre, the orange pantile roof catches weak strands of sunlight on this September morning … ≈≈≈ Tales for Travellers and Travellers Tales … walking in the footsteps … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborations, Ephemera - Encounters, Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Field Trip, Folk-Lore, Found Art, Observation, Poetry, Psychogeography
Tagged Anna Groundwater, Ben Jonson, Culross, Dunfermline, Fife, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, James Loxley, Murdo Eason, social walk, Tales for Travellers, Traveller's Tales, University of Edinburgh
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Fragments of Istria: an Assemblage
We could eat this sky. Stretch up, scoop out handfuls; smear our faces and taste the fanfare of sunset. II Out of red earth lines of olive trees, vines and quarried stone. Centuries of building, dwelling, tending the … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera - Encounters, Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Field Trip, Folk-Lore, Found Art, Happenstance, Observation, Poetry, Psychogeography, Quote, rag-pickings
Tagged aura, Ballardian, Black Death, Croatia, cyprus tree, Draga Valley, Dvigrad, etntopy, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, ghost town, Goats, graffiti, haystacks, hill-top town, Istria, Jason and the Argonauts, Mirna Valley, Motovun, Murdo Eason, old walls, River Mirna, ruined house, rural uncanny, shrine, Sunset, Veli Jože, Walter Benjamin, Wicker Man
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From Hill to Sea – Book Update
From Hill to Sea: Dispatches from the Fife Psychogeographical Collective, 2010 – 2014 is published by Bread and Circuses Publishing. After a successful launch at the Edinburgh Independent & Radical Book Fair, copies of the book are now available from Word … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera - Encounters, Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Field Trip, Folk-Lore, Found Art, Happenstance, I Remember, Observation, Poetry, Psychogeography, Quote, rag-pickings, Some Questions of the Drift, Sounds of Spaces and Places, Symbol, Uncategorized
Tagged Bread and Circuses Publishing, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, From Hill to Sea, Word Power Books
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Coastal (Being and) Time
” ‘Nature’ is not to be understood as that which is just present-at-hand …” Martin Heidegger It is difficult to convey a sense of scale. Perched on the edge of a collapsed harbour wall, the vestiges break from the blue … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trip, Folk-Lore, Observation, Poetry, Psychogeography
Tagged Collapsed Harbour Wall, COP21, cormorants, Egon Riss, Fife, Fife Coastal Path, Fife Pits, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, folklore, Heron, Inchkeith, industrial ruins, International Klein Blue., kelpies, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, lava flows, Martin Heidegger, mermaids, oystercatchers, Pettycur Bay, poetry, Seafield, Seafield Tower, Seals, seals singing, selkies, Sir Archibald Geikie, swifts, The Binn, The Devil's Tower, The Seafield Pit, Totem, Witches Hill, Yves Klein
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Three November Skies
. Two divining rods dowsing the sky . A fragment falling pooling at my feet ≈ Looking from Leith Walk, Edinburgh, on 25th November towards the vestiges of the Shrubhill tramway workshops and power station. The power station opened in 1898 … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera - Encounters, Folk-Lore, Happenstance, Observation, Poetry, Psychogeography, rag-pickings
Tagged Covenanters, dowsing, East Coast Mainline, Edinburgh, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, Gallow Lee, gibbet, industrial chimneys, lava, Leith Walk, Limekilns, Power Station, Shrubhill, sky, Tramway Workshops, view from a train, warlocks, Witches
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Crows, Crowns and a Curious Landscape
Like animated clods of black earth suspended in the branches. A murder of crows. We can feel their collective beady gaze following us as we walk down the single-track road that leads into the hamlet of Pattiesmuir. A fluttering of … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Field Trip, Folk-Lore, Happenstance, Observation, Psychogeography
Tagged A murder of crows, agricultural ruins, Andrew Carnegie, Burns, Douglas Bank cemetry, Dunfermline, Egyptian Clump, Egyptian Field, Fife, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, fossil fuels, global, global warming, Hitchcock, King of the Gypsies, local, Mark E. Smith, Minimal Disease Pigs, Pattiesmuir, petrochemical, pig-farm, Romany, Rosyth, ruined petrol pump, rural, Slug, Spinner, The Birds, The College, The Fall, Walter Scott
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Addendum: Into the Void – A Field Trip
We have previously entered the Zone-like territory of The Void which was documented in a previous post here: . We have just been sent this wonderful photo by Stray Seal which captures the uncanny, submerged world of The Void. It … Continue reading
The wild wood
. Beyond the hawthorn, lies the wild wood “cuckoo, cuckoo” . . over the threshold forms and colours of the Otherworld . . … snake-eye stirs . ‘ jaw click, snout and a slither of tongues . . threat … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trip, Folk-Lore, Observation, Psychogeography
Tagged Celtic mythology, cuckoo, Dunfermline, faery folk, fungi, Hawthorn, Pattiesmuir, ruins, Thomas the Rhymer, wild wood
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