Category Archives: rag-pickings

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 | 18 Comments

Through the White World

Posted on 18/03/2018 by From Hill to Sea

Island of residual ≈ It was only for a few days. The immediate sensory world became a continuum of white and grey. A familiar world made strange. Almost all colour, leached from the field of vision and imagination. White Grey … Continue reading →

Posted in Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, I Remember, Observation, Poetry, rag-pickings | Tagged Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez, cat, Disko Bay, Double Game, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, Han Kang, Kenneth White, Murdo Eason, Nancy Campbell, old walls, Peter Davidson, Sophie Calle, The Chromatic Diet, The Idea of North, The White Book, White World | 4 Comments

Lost Coordinates II

Posted on 18/03/2018 by From Hill to Sea

Lost coordinates: Where untold stories bleed into images beyond words Where unheard sounds of the spectral field become entangled ≈≈≈ Now playing: Jim O’Rourke – Disengage

Posted in Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Happenstance, Language of Objects, Observation, Poetry, rag-pickings, Sounds of Spaces and Places | Tagged abstract, abstract photography, black and white, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, light, Murdo Eason, photography, spectral, tangled | Leave a comment

A Familiar World Made Strange

Posted on 01/03/2018 by From Hill to Sea

All tracks, footprints, paths were gone. Buried. He had pitched a tent on arriving: how come it had not blown off? From inside, he watched the complex improvisations of the wind. He heard how it suddenly laughed with the sand, … Continue reading →

Posted in Ephemera - Encounters, Field Trip, Observation, Poetry, Quote, rag-pickings | Tagged 'Beast from the East', alien forms, beach, Chaya Czernowin, Edmond Jabès, Elemental vortex, Fife, Fife Coast, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, Limekilns, Murdo Eason, snow on beach, The Book of Questions | 3 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

We Can Only Be Onlookers

Posted on 17/02/2018 by From Hill to Sea

. The call precedes the chorus of arrival A delphian chant from an ancient score We can only be onlookers Line of the long low swoop Ascending over the Forth Carried on song … Continue reading →

Posted in Ephemera - Encounters, Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Happenstance, Observation, Poetry, rag-pickings, Symbol | Tagged Fife Coastal Path, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, Firth of Forth, Flying geese, geese, geese chanting, Limekilns, Murdo Eason | 2 Comments

Category Archives: rag-pickings

Two Hours in the Lang Toun

Through the White World

Lost Coordinates II

A Familiar World Made Strange

The City Speaks

Transitory Islands

We Can Only Be Onlookers

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