Category Archives: Field Trip

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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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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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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The Woods and the Words

The stories are still told of a time before the water. When the earth lay heaped, black and smouldering. It is said that they tunnelled u n d e                                       g          r          o          u          n          d for black diamonds to … Continue reading

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Into the Void – A Field Trip

It is often the shortest journey, undertaken with least expectation, that offers up an excess of possibility beyond what we expect to see. It’s always worth exploring the other side of the barbed wire fence. Never keep to the path. … Continue reading

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A Saunter through Summerhall

Buildings loom over us and persist beyond us. They have the perfect memory of materiality Longevity has no chance without a serious structure Stewart Brand – How Buildings Learn We finally got the chance to have a good investigative wander … Continue reading

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4’33″ on a train – John Cage Centennial, 5th September 2012

Our modest contribution to the John Cage centennial celebrations. On 5th September 2012, we decided to undertake a performance of 4’33″on the train from Falkirk High to Glasgow Queen Street. Raising and lowering the seat tray served to mark the … Continue reading

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T h r e s h o l d

trying to catch a thread of time when theincomingtide becomes the o u  t   g    o     i      n       g        t         i          … Continue reading

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Postscript: The (Other) Firebugs of Kreuzberg

A short postscript to a previous post The Firebugs of Kreuzberg: A friend from Berlin commented that the piece was quite different from what they had anticipated from the title: “You do know about the other Firebugs of Kreuzberg right?” … Continue reading

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