Tag: Edinburgh

erasure / profile

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 24/04/2018
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erasure / profile

contemplation on the absence of an egg

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Now playing: Sarah Davachi – ‘At Hand’ from Let Night Come On Bells End The Day.

Tags Edinburgh, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, gravestone, gull, Murdo Eason, St Cuthbert's Edinburgh

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Spaces of Silence

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 31/03/2018
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1876

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Out of the silence of centuries, discrete words will, one day, surface for us …

Edmond Jabès

text without words

unheard conversation

solitaire

(listening to the light)

setting sun reflects from a neighbour’s window

fading white wall whisper

shadow play, apple tree, evening breeze

spaces of silence

allow new possibilities

beyond the edgeless shape

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Now playing: Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello – The Spaces Contained in Each

Tags abstract phtography, Edinburgh, Edmond Jabès, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, Garage Door, Limekilns, Murdo Eason, Nicolson Street, reflection, setting sun, St Andrews, Welbeck Street Car Park London

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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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The Surface is a Zone of Encounter (An Assemblage)

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 09/11/2017
11 Comments on The Surface is a Zone of Encounter (An Assemblage)

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

———->

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

Found Art Language of Objects Observation rag-pickings Symbol

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

Psychogeography

The Unseelie Court – Summerhall, Edinburgh

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 12/09/2017
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Murdo Eason will be taking part in ‘The Unseelie Court’ on Saturday 21st October at Summerhall in Edinburgh. A day of discussion, film and a night of music, put together by the good people of Folk Horror Revival, who have previously brought their take on the folk horror phenomenon to Cambridge University and The British Museum.

More details on the full line up can be found on the Folk Horror Revival website and tickets can be purchased from Summerhall.

Murdo Eason will be delivering a talk, Embedded in the Landscape: Psychogeography, Folk Horror and the Everyday.

Tags Edinburgh, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Folk Horror Revival, Landscape, Murdo Eason, psychogeography, Summerhall, the everyday

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On the Other Side of the Castle

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 24/05/2017
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Youtz / twilight / twig / antenna

On the other side of the castle

Argyle House, Edinburgh

Oblique rain

fall in the glitch

land (e)scape(s)

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Now playing: The Bug vs Earth – ‘Other Side of the World’ from Concrete Desert.

Tags architecture, Argyle House Edinburgh, Brutalism, Brutalist, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, glitch landscape, Murdo Eason, psychogeography, twilight

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Spectral Dreams of the City Stones

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 18/01/2017
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A dream in masonry and living rock

Robert Louis Stevenson

the habit of dreaming and the ability to dream are primordial

Fernando Pessoa

adrift

casting a line

to pull down

the stars

at the threshold

of hearing, sounds

of the city, stored

in the stones

thought bubble

of the white dove

fractured figments

of translation – PA?

dazzle me

with dreams

of a kinder

kind of blue

even electrons

get lost

in the forest

(scratch) —–>

this way

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From a walk through the New Town of Edinburgh on 14th January 2017.

(Edinburgh’s) buildings are dominated by locally quarried sandstone so that the stone-built heritage literally grows out of the bedrock foundations of the city. (McMillan and Hyslop, The City of Edinburgh: Landscape and Stone, 2008).

Now playing: Morton Feldman – Triadic Memories (Steffen Schleiermacher).