Tag Archives: Fife

The Fifty-Fourth Station of the Tōkaidō (in Kirkcaldy)

Posted on 17/10/2018 by From Hill to Sea

Perhaps there was a fifty-fourth station of the Tōkaidō. What if Hiroshige transcended time and geography, sailed into Kirkcaldy harbour and placed a stone block in the outer walls of the library. A nod to an alternative Eastern Sea Road. … Continue reading →

Posted in Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Field Trip, Found Art, Happenstance, Observation, rag-pickings | Tagged Fife, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, found art, Found Object, Found Poetry, From Hill to Sea, Hiroshige, Kirkcaldy, Mudo Eason, The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō | 4 Comments

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

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

Haar Gothic

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

Haar gothic Graveyard off limits No herald angels sing today ≈≈≈ Dunfermline Abbey 21.12.17 Now playing: Erik Satie (played by Philip Corner) – ‘The Gothic Dances’ from Satie Slowly

Posted in Happenstance, Observation, Psychogeography, rag-pickings | Tagged Dunfermline, Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, gothic, Haar, Murdo Eason | 3 Comments

Interstice

Posted on 02/11/2017 by From Hill to Sea

For a moment hold an interstice of the gloaming ≈≈≈ Now playing: Eleh – ‘Measuring the Immeasurable’ from Radiant Intervals I.

Posted in Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Field Trip, Happenstance, Observation, Poetry, rag-pickings | Tagged Blairadam Forest, Fife, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, gloaming, interstice, light, Murdo Eason, Pattiesmuir, wild wood | Leave a comment

At the Heron House

Posted on 25/05/2017 by From Hill to Sea

It is a place within easy walking distance from the front door and yet it is unlikely that anyone would stumble across it. It is not on any well-trodden path. However, nor could it be described as a remote location as would be evident if you … Continue reading →

Posted in Field Trip, Happenstance, Observation, Psychogeography | Tagged @EdinDrift, A siege of herons, clods, earth, Fife, Fife Psychogeographical Collective, Fife Psychogeography, fungi, Hayao Miyazaki, lichens, Murdo Eason, organic antenna, psychogeography, pterodactyls, snowdrops, stillness, The Other, time | 10 Comments

Tag Archives: Fife

The Fifty-Fourth Station of the Tōkaidō (in Kirkcaldy)

Glow / \ Black

Two Hours in the Lang Toun

A Familiar World Made Strange

Haar Gothic

Interstice

At the Heron House

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