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Wanderer in liminal space

Walking Score No 1 (After Klee)

taking a line for a walk  ~ Paul Klee taking a walk on a line ~ FPC ~ Walking Score No I (After Klee) ~ Take a map drawn to any scale ~ Draw a line that starts and ends at the … Continue reading

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Ephemera – A short visual drift through the Edinburgh New Town

P e d a g o g y ~ C o n v e r g e / E n t w i n e ~ B r o u g h t o n  M a r k e … Continue reading

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Ephemera – White Space

Have tried to incorporate white space into blog posts, in the past, with pretty mixed results. Not found this easy to achieve in WordPress. A page can look fine in a certain browser, but a mess in others, particularly on … Continue reading

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On the Coffin Road

We approach the village from the North by the coffin road known as Windylaw.  A sign indicates that this path was used for many centuries by people to carry their dead to Rosyth Church. Sometimes they would come from as … Continue reading

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Two Spectral Trees – Somewhere North of Devilla Forest

Looking up to the ridge, over the evergreen crowns, two spectral trees hang mid-air in the limpid heat. A  smoke spiral, all coiled movement, settles to stillness as a Rorschach blot of charcoal smudge bleeds into sun saturated blue. The universe … Continue reading

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(Always) Between Something and Nothing

The white centre … is both an emptiness and an energy generator. Your eye is continually drawn back to its white silence, its void-ness. Then your attention is propelled out again along the twisting road-ways. The eye cycles back and … Continue reading

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The Wilderness Does Exist – A Field Trip

How could we not be intrigued? Casting an eye over some local maps from the late 1800s. Stumble and trip. The Wilderness. An actual place on the map. The delineated form resembles a long-front-legged cartoon fox. We resist the urge … Continue reading

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Ephemera – Dunfermline Linen Co.

Restored ghost sign in New Row Dunfermline. Does this now make it a sign haunted by a ghost sign? Now Playing: Triosk – Moment Returns

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Ephemera – We Walked Side by Side

From the shadows in the twilight a glint of iridescence. We walked side by side through a car park today. Now Playing: Eivind Aarset – Dream Logic

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Ephemera – Car Park Portal

Now Playing: Bruce Gilbert – This Way

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