Category: Language of Objects

shattered bottle / Zen Garden

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 05/12/2018
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shattered bottle / Zen garden

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Now playing: John Cage – Ryoanji

Tags Caldwell's paper mill, Fife, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, From Hill to Sea, Inverkeithing, Murdo Eason, shattered glass, zen

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How it Begins

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 05/12/2018
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how it begins

(or ends)

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Now playing: Morton Feldman – For Samuel Beckett

Tags crack, Fife, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, From Hill to Sea, Murdo Eason, surface, Water of Leith

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Lost Coordinates II

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 18/03/2018
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Lost coordinates:

Where untold stories bleed

into images beyond words

Where unheard sounds

of the spectral field become

entangled

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Now playing: Jim O’Rourke – Disengage

Tags abstract, abstract photography, black and white, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, light, Murdo Eason, photography, spectral, tangled

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The City Speaks

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 25/02/2018
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Aerated Waters

Marchmont, Edinburgh

P e r s e v e r e

Marchmont, Edinburgh

Not so Chic

West End, Edinburgh

‘Zona AntiFascista’

Patrick Geddes Steps, Old Town, Edinburgh

‘Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio’

Newington, Edinburgh

ARE

JELLI

Cowgate, Edinburgh

When the inside becomes the outside

New Town, Edinburgh*

(*Intrigued by this one. You can still see plenty of bricked up window spaces in Edinburgh New Town, often attributed to window taxes imposed in the 1700s, although see comment from Calum Storie below. This one looks like a cast has been taken, delineating the fan light and window frames. The inside reversed to the outside. Shades of Rachel Whiteread?)

Now playing: Jon Hassell – City: Works of Fiction

Tags 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

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Transitory Islands

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 18/02/2018
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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

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The ‘Transitory Islands’ pic was a fairly random phone shot from crossing the Forth Rail Bridge by train – a journey undertaken many times. Perhaps this chance encounter pulled something, initially unseen, out of these raindrops:

Serendipitous encounter No. 1: (On twitter @gawanmac asked: “it just me, or is that archipelago humpback-shaped?” A delicious coincidence as a number of humpback whales had been seen in the River Forth that very week). Is that also a gull masquerading as an eye?

Serendipitous encounter No. 2: playing Julian Priester’s Love, Love and drawn to the cover which I hadn’t really looked at closely before. A view reminiscent of the outlook, crossing the Forth Rail Bridge by train, where the gulls are often seen flying below you. Some disturbance in the water, have we just missed a humpback whale breaching?

Now playing: Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto – Love, Love

Tags Firth of Forth, Forth Rail Bridge, graffiti, imagined islands, islands, rail journey, transitory islands

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Language of Objects – Review by Billy Mills.

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 07/01/2018
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We are delighted that Billy Mills, poet, editor, and literary journalist has reviewed Language of Objects and included it in his top ten books of the year. The review can be read here

Thanks Billy!

Billy also runs hardPressed poetry press with fellow poet Catherine Walsh. Billy’s blog Elliptical Movements is a treasure trove of book reviews, poetry and generally interesting writing including an archive of Irish Women Poets. His own books come highly recommended including Lares/Manes: Collected Poems (Shearsman, 2009); Imaginary Gardens (hardPressed poetry 2012); and most recently The City Itself (Hesterglock Press 2017).

Thanks very much, from Brian and myself, to everyone who has supported Language of Objects. A small number of copies are still available and can be ordered here.

Best wishes

Murdo

Tags Billy Mills, Book Review, Brian Lavelle, Elliptical Movements, Language of Objects, Murdo Eason

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The Surface is a Zone of Encounter (An Assemblage)

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 09/11/2017
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I think that light makes material space … light is really the primary form of our habitation and makes surfaces come to life.

The surface holds what we project into it. It is an active site of exchange between subject and object.

Giuliana Bruno

Two sides of the border

Cleaved

Landscape

of mark making

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Lines of travel

<———-

Whilst waiting

eye follows line

of divide – lit

spill on surface

softening shapes

of solid geometry

Celestial movement in concrete

Cascade of perseids?

Constellations and star signs?

Whorl

Eye

Portal

From the atlas of green worlds and frozen seas

From the atlas of mutant landscapes

(Oracle?)

Where the striped fish, with no name, shoal in the ocean of lambent light

Emerging language: futurescape

(in process)

The point at which surface folds

New ecological imaginaries

Ambivalence of the non-human world

When the colour & texture of the sky triggers a memory of James Turrell in the Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon.

Dream:

High sun burns over thin snow. The very last snowball harvest.

New languages of underfoot

Spectrum edge

Light cuts

Interiors of darkness

Draped, infolding

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When a wall whispers: Not I

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 02/11/2017
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When a wall whispers: Not I

Caesura || Sentry

Island

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Now playing: Morton Feldman (Ensemble Modern) – For Samuel Beckett

Tags Beckett, brick, brick mouth, caesura, Dunfermline, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, island, Not I, walking, walls

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Requiem for an Unknown Event

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 01/11/2017
3 Comments on Requiem for an Unknown Event

Found object, St Stephen Street, Edinburgh.

Now Playing: Lawrence English/Thor Harris Requiem for a Reaper / Pillar of Cloud’ from Cruel Optimism.

Tags Edinburgh, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, flower, Found Object, Marble, Murdo Eason, pavement, Requiem, St Stephen Street

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New Publication: Language of Objects

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 14/09/2017
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We are very pleased to announce the publication of Language of Objects, a collaboration between Murdo Eason of the Fife Psychogeographical Collective and Brian Lavelle, sound artist and the Edinburgh Drift project.

Language of Objects is a 58 page book in full colour inside and out, accompanied by a glass mastered CD with a separate download code. Text and images are by Murdo, sound by Brian and the cover design is by Vincent Pacheco. The CD contains a new 28 minute composition—Sullen Charybdis, the Blue of Scarabs—which is Brian’s response to the book’s contents.

Language of Objects is published by Blind Roads Press, a new collaborative imprint that Brian and Murdo have set up.

Some technical details:
Paperback, 58pp, full colour, 148 x 210mm, perfect bound
300gsm cover, 120gsm interior
Glass mastered CD
Edition of 100 copies
ISBN 978-1-9997718-0-5

Available now for £10.99 plus postage from this link

Tags Blind Roads Press, Brian Lavelle, Edinburgh Drift, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, ISBN 978-1-9997718-0-5, Language of Objects, Murdo Eason, New Book, Publications

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The ‘Transitory Islands’ pic was a fairly random phone shot from crossing the Forth Rail Bridge by train – a journey undertaken many times. Perhaps this chance encounter pulled something, initially unseen, out of these raindrops:

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