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
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, danced with the sand, amused and irritated the sand, amused itself and got irritated with the number of grains. And finally, it became, in its desire, a mad sand god dragging monstrous winged creatures off to conquer the world.
Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions
In a few steps, a familiar world made strange
Disorientation
Elemental vortex
Snow on sand births alien forms
Flecked horizon of Rothko greys
From a very brief walk along the shore at Limekilns, Fife on 28th February 2018, around 15.00. An encounter with the “Beast from the East”.
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Now playing: Chaya Czernowin – Wintersongs
The low instruments were moving like the slow search of a plant towards light – CZ
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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
– Fading – – faint
– – – far – – – – beyond
Our horizon
We can only be onlookers
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Limekilns, 4th February 2018
sound of the moon
silent water
Firth of Forth 31.08.17.
Now playing: Christina Vantzou – ‘Moon Drone’ from No. 3
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Fragile heat, March sun
Morning frost fizzle melt
Spring threads of creeper
– sprung, in
Lip of light
and shadow play
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F i z z z z z z l e s
of morning frost
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Now playing: Tristan Perich: Surface Image (performed by Vicky Chow).
Time adrift
Land, sea and sky under caul of ice fog
Lost coordinates.
Trace of an island? spectral ship?
Ah – foreshore shaman at the prow.
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Now playing: Kevin Drumm – Middle of Nothing (Part 1)
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Settle
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Settled /
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/ /
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/ Disperse
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Dispersed
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ice blue hue of early morning / / settled setting of frozen music / / arrowhead stave aimed at the stars / / rhythms inked on starless starlight [ crack crack – cacophony crescendo ] winged chorus sounded in flight / /
settle / / settled / / disperse / / dispersed
still / / stilled / / stillness
At Capernaum Pier, Limekilns. Early morning 21st January 2017.
Now playing: David Cross & Robert Fripp – Starless Starlight
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Conflux of cobbles
Walking against
Autumn’s wake
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..
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Deep Time
Shore Line
F r e s c o
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a scattering of jewels
criss-cross streams
of early morning light
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.
drifting
at the edges
meaning, slipping
away
from the words
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...
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Godot Tree
Waiting
For leaves
To fall
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Autumn morning / City pastoral
(King’s Stables Road, Edinburgh. Horse and cattle markets were held weekly in this road from 1477 until 1911)
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Underfoot
the spaces in between
One cracked cobble
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“Several whales have come in upon this coast
Anno 1652, one, eighty feet in length”
Moby Dick (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian) – on the Fife coast.
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No still life:
Foraging wasps, drunk
on autumnal colour
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Always good to head for a higher perspective. On the way, counsel from the elephant wood shaman.
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Towards the brow of the hill:
a wind blown tree;
an apparition,
forming in the sky
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Always the tracks
of footfall
beyond the now
of time
.
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Frost already underfoot/ A smothering of darkness/ Celestial lights & the eerie glow of the petrochemical plant/ A heron stalks the shadows
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Now Playing: Robin Hayward – Stop Time (favourite piece of music of the year).
That time of day in December when the last flicker of light gives way to shadow and smothering darkness
The sea a dark mirror, pulling down the sky
Time of the Vanishing ( )
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Time of retreat
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From the shore at Limekilns, 3rd December 2016, around 16.50.
Now playing: Loren Connors – Blues: The Dark Paintings of Mark Rothko
all the shadows of time
since sixteen eighty nine
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Now playing: Licht-Akiyama Trios – Tomorrow Outside Tomorrow.
Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea 