Follow the Stone: Pre-amble Preamble[1]:before a walk begins. A thought pathway in two parts: 2021 and 1961. Part One 2021 Now Whenever I leave the house I am always going ‘Somewhere, there’s a place for us’ It’s clear, simple and obvious. How I go is the question. Why I go is the other question. I am “going to …
Follow the Stone Part Three: Route and Root
Part Three: Follow the Stone Root and Route One theme that emerged while creating this work was the sense of ‘being present whilst collecting memory’. It placed the past and future in the vessel of the present. I explored running/walking routes and landed on a route from home to Marshside along the old sea wall and back through the streets …
Follow the Stone Part Two: The Poetry
Follow the Stone Part Two The Poetry Four poems have emerged so far from the work on Follow the Stone. (Password: strata2020) Written after Moving 11 June 2020 before Virtual Strata 2020 I Walking Painful day today Full of pain Head pain Knee pain Heart pain. Walk just walk. Listen to the black poet who grew up fully …
Mapping a New direction in a Creative Journey: Follow the Stone Part One
Mapping a New direction in a Creative Journey: Follow the Stone[1]Part One Then and Now Here follows a series of posts reflecting on recent creative explorations I have been making. These reflections coincide with a podcast I was invited to do recently for Per Stellas and an invitation to facilitate and direct students in a creative project we are calling …
It’s a memory day
Facebook has this habit of prompting you to repost your memories. Today (12 December) is Melanie’s birthday. I posted about it a couple of years ago, hence the prompt. But rather than post on facebook I thought to write something here. Melanie would have been 47 today. I remember her as a three week baby whom I never met but …
After the 1987 Hurricane
[acx_slideshow name=”Running in the Woods”] I visited the New Forest in the Spring of 1988 after the hurricane of 1987 many are remembering today. I wrote this following the visit and over the years kept amending until it became this particular version: A Walk In The New Forest in 1988 After A Hurricane Not overly wild and not yet fully …