Category Archives: Found Art

Glow / \ Black

Posted on 24/05/2018 by From Hill to Sea

W. J. Watson has suggested that this is a Pictish water-word, cognate with OW gloiu ‘liquid’, W gloyw ‘shiny’ (1926, 470), while Jacob King prefers a Celtic root *gleiwo- ‘gleaming, clear’. Place Names of Fife (2006) A Saturday in late April 2018. It feels … Continue reading →

Posted in Field Trip, Found Art, Happenstance, Observation, Poetry, Psychogeography | Tagged asemic writing, Black Loch, buzzard, Cape Town, Cleish, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Fife, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, fishing, Flint Michigan, Forest Plantation, Knock Hill, Loch Glow, Murdo Eason, Peacock, reeds, reservoir, Rorschach, sentinels, white swan | 14 Comments

Two Hours in the Lang Toun

Posted on 05/04/2018 by From Hill to Sea

Two hours. I have just dropped off a bunch of excited teenagers at Kirkcaldy Ice Rink (now rebadged as Fife Ice Arena) for the afternoon skating session. With too little time to return home and do anything meaningful, it seems like … Continue reading →

Posted in Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Field Trip, Found Art, Happenstance, I Remember, Observation, Psychogeography, rag-pickings, Some Questions of the Drift | Tagged abstract landscape, Alan Nance, Art Deco, Bundy Clock, Co-operative, colour field, Commercial Street, cultural erratic, Dame Laura Knight, decaying buildings, Dysart, Earls of Rosslyn, East Fife, Feuars Arms, Fife, Fife Ice Arena, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, Flesh Wynd, Gallatown, Gerhard Richter, Golden Eagles, Griselda Hill, Hamer the Framer, Howard Hodgkin, industrial assemblage, John Buchan, Karel Nekola, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcaldy Ice Rink, Kirkcaple, Ladbrokes, Langtoun Aquarists Pondkeepers Group, Laurence Mitchell, Leven, linoleum, Mary Campbell Smith, mausoleum, Michael Nairn, minimalism, Murdo Eason, Nairn's Folly, Parker-Knoll, Pathead, Pathead Sands, Pottery Street, Prester John, psychogeography, Puffins, Ravens Craig flats, Ravenscraig Castle, Rejects, Robert Heron and Son, Rochdale Pioneers, Rosslyn Chapel, Rosslyn Street, School Lane, Sinclairtown, skep, Spiritualist Church, St Clair Street, Steve Reich, The Beast From the East, The Boy in the Train, The Wealth of Nations, trams, typographical erratic, Wemyss Pottery, Wemyss Ware, Williamson and Hubbard | 19 Comments

The City Speaks

Posted on 25/02/2018 by From Hill to Sea

Aerated Waters Marchmont, Edinburgh P e r s e v e r e P e r s e v e r e P e r s e v e r e P e r s e v … Continue reading →

Posted in Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Field Trip, Found Art, Happenstance, Language of Objects, Observation, Psychogeography, Quote, rag-pickings, Sounds of Spaces and Places | Tagged Aerated Waters, Chic, Cowgate, Dead Kennedys, Edinburgh, erasure poetry, Ghost Sign, graffiti, Joy Division, Marchmont, New Town, Newington, Old Town, Patrick Geddes, Patrick Geddes Steps, Transmission, West End | 4 Comments

Transitory Islands

Posted on 18/02/2018 by From Hill to Sea

. Foregrounded over the Forth An archipelago of transitory islands . A solitary tree, inhabits the island Island of the hidden lagoon (Love) Island of the heart ≈≈≈ The ‘Transitory Islands’ pic was a fairly … Continue reading →

Posted in Ephemera - Encounters, Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Found Art, Happenstance, Language of Objects, Observation, Poetry, rag-pickings | Tagged Firth of Forth, Forth Rail Bridge, graffiti, imagined islands, islands, rail journey, transitory islands | Leave a comment

Strange Gravity

Posted on 07/02/2018 by From Hill to Sea

light / pool flood / line cascade / spill a strange gravity ≈ Now playing: Catherine Lamb – ‘curvo totalitas’ (2016) from Yarn/Wire Currents 4

Posted in Found Art, Happenstance, Observation, Poetry, rag-pickings | Tagged abstract photography, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, interior, Murdo Eason | Leave a comment

Reveal of Unhalfbricking

Posted on 24/01/2018 by From Hill to Sea

Now playing: Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking

Posted in Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Found Art, Happenstance, Observation, Psychogeography | Tagged Elgin Street Dunfermline, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, Murdo Eason, Unhalfbricking | 4 Comments

Another Green World

Posted on 29/11/2017 by From Hill to Sea

Another Green World Concrete dreams of Catterline (Found Art – after Eardley) . After the fall Small increments in green ≈≈≈ Now playing: Eno – ‘In Dark Trees’ from Another Green World

Posted in Ephemera - Encounters, Found Art, Happenstance, Observation, rag-pickings | Tagged Another Green World, car park Inverkeithing, Catterline, Eno, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, Joan Eardley, Market Street Edinburgh, Murdo Eason, railway underpass Inverkeithing | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Found Art

Glow / \ Black

Two Hours in the Lang Toun

The City Speaks

Transitory Islands

Strange Gravity

Reveal of Unhalfbricking

Another Green World

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