Category Archives: Observation

Walking Score No 1 (After Klee)

Posted on 15/05/2013 by

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

Posted on 15/05/2013 by

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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Two Spectral Trees – Somewhere North of Devilla Forest

Posted on 06/03/2013 by

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

Posted on 10/02/2013 by

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 Woods and the Words

Posted on 15/11/2012 by

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

Posted on 09/09/2012 by

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

Posted on 09/08/2012 by

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

Posted on 09/08/2012 by

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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s i l e n t l y .. b e i n g .. s i l e n t

Posted on 22/07/2012 by

silently being silent ~ being silent silently . Now playing: Eliane Radigue – Transamorem – Transmortem

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The Firebugs of Kreuzberg

Posted on 30/06/2012 by

Retain your memories but détourn them so that they correspond with your era. Asger Jorn We are in Berlin travelling on the U-Bahn to Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg. It is a gloriously warm April morning with fists of sunlight starting … Continue reading →

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