Tag: Aberdour

Impossible Textures of the Sea / Light Fizzles


On the last day of 2017, the impossible textures of the sea

.

.

A full moon emerges

rises, observes

.

.

Constant flux underfoot, new paths

.

 

Sustaining coastal energies, wind, sea spray

changing colours of the tide

 

 

Cloud and sea  – a mirrored

chiaroscuro dissolving

the lip of land

 

 

Grounded exhalation

.

.

silhouettes of breath

etched on the gloaming

≈

A week earlier – 26.12.2017

 

Bookends of light

fizzle into folds of darkness

 

 

Half a silver lozenge, to pluck from the sky

 

.

We leave it to the nightwatch(er)

≈≈≈

Taken from a series of short walks around the West Fife coast during the last week of 2017. Putting this together left an initial conundrum. How did I photograph a full looking moon and half moon less than a week apart?  I posted the question on Twitter and thanks to Portals of London (@portalsoflondon), Jennie Murray (@lithgaelark) and MAW Holmes (@MAW_H) for the clarification. Basically I had taken a cycle at 29.5 days and halved it instead of taken a quarter to move from half to full. (new – half – full – half – new).  However, possibly preferred Paul Kenny’s (@jmarmaduke) answer of alchemy.

Now playing: Ketil Bjørnstad, David Darling, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen – The Sea II

The Foreshore Shaman

DSCN2801-001

 

Enter through yellow eye

into bird mind of

the foreshore shaman.

≈

Come inhabit the spaces

between water

earth and sky.

 

How long have you got?

I’m just biding my time

sitting still, tuning in.

 

Listen to the wind;

wave pulse, lapping

on stone. Feel, sun

and moon movements.

 

Observe worlds formed

in rock pools, constellations

of barnacles, breathe in

sea salt air.

 

I see through reflection

beyond the mirror.

 

Sense the movement

that precedes

the moment, to

 

step forward

stop time, poised

with calm intent

to pierce the void.

 

In one movement:

from the depths

a fish –

……………….Ensō !

≈≈≈

Heron Shaman encountered at Black Sands, Aberdour, Fife, Saturday, 16th January 2016.

Now playing: David Behrman – On the Other Ocean

In Still Winter Air

DSCN2820

.

Gothic lungs, breathe

still, winter air

.

Arms outstretched

movement in stasis

a silent cry

sounded in ink

.

Now Playing: Laura Cannell – ‘Banshee’ from Swooping Talons Remixes (Charles Hayward and Merlin Nova remix).

Aberdour, Fife, 16th January, 2016.

Under a full sky

DSCN2828

At the end of a walk
.
a congregation cry
under a full sky
.
Anticipating
the snow arriving
.
(Now drifting down)

DSCN2829

Somewhere close to Aberdour, Fife, late afternoon, 16th January 2016.

Now playing: Hans Joachim Roedelius & Leon Muraglia – ‘Gently Falling Snow’ from Ubi Bene.

Once we looked to the horizon

Blind Window

.

Once we looked to the horizon.

How can we see now?

≈

Monitor

.

Encased

in the white wall

a pulse, a tracing

an inscription of breath.

≈

CIMG3058

.

An acronym, or

a beginning

an interruption, or

an end?

≈

Rushes

.

Wind-blown,

brush strokes

impasto smears

…………………………………………….– the sky

a feathered script

of light

≈

At the Ghost Pier 28.12.13

.

At the ghost pier

the ebb and flow

of memory

and forgetting

≈

Nails

.

Weather soaked

histories

 etched – in wood

a redundancy of nails

.

.

Pier

.

≈

.

From the shore

.

A polished pewter sky

dreams a wash of

copper-burnished kisses

≈

CIMG3089

.

an invitation,

the pull towards

the edge

.

Cliffs

.

to sit and stare.

Listening

to the lichens

singing

≈

CIMG3097

.

On the cliff top,

who is watching

the solitary watcher

≈

Memory Bench

.

and at the bench

an outward gaze

to remember

and once again

look beyond

the edge of the horizon.

≈

Musings from a short walk in the village of Aberdour, Fife, on 28th December 2013.

Thanks to @emmaZbolland for “Pewter light” in response to an earlier tweet of the Ghost Pier.

Now playing: Translucence – John Foxx and Harold Budd.