Scratch The Surface….. Mangroves…...’Portholes’….. From Kilmorack Gallery….
by Bernie Bell - 09:16 on 24 October 2023
Scratch The Surface….
…and you find archaeology…..that’s Orkney for ‘ya…..
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2023/10/22/link-orkney-dig-reveals-ruins-of-huge-tomb/
The Orkney Archaeology Society is planning to host a talk about this discovery…I quote from the OAS Facebook page…
“Hugo is in Orkney shortly and has very kindly agreed to do a talk for OAS on this hugely exciting dig, on Tuesday 7th November - details to follow ASAP ***
Amazing update from Hugo in today's Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/.../a-neolithic-feat-of... “
I’m still not going indoors where there will be groups of un-known people, also, a state of nearly constant tiredness means that we don’t go out in the evening – so we won’t be going to this talk – BUT – there are also plans to record it.
Recording the talks is a boon for those who can’t get to them. I do miss the OAS talks - not just because of the information presented but also meeting up with people, and the raffle! There’s always a good raffle. Things change and life moves on – the recordings are a boon - but, as with music – you can’t beat live!
This is the last ‘live’ OAS talk we attended before Covid hit……
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/07/29/jo-mckenzies-layers-of-colour/
I’m thinking about that site near Holm, lying there, waiting….
How many more are there?
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Mangroves….
I used to check the BBC News page regularly – found that the content was taking me deeper into a ‘down’ which I’ve been in recently - so stopped – aware that I would be missing some good stuff too but – self-preservation dictated that I leave it be.
Mike still checks it sometimes, and he saw this……
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-67155632
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world – plus & minus.
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Anna Badkhen
“Ever do we reread and reinterpret the narratives of our footprints, literal and metaphorical, Morse code spelling out messages from the planet’s past and present; and each interpretation begets its own story, its own reach of the past into the future.”
“Earlier this month, a team of geologists confirmed that a set of footprints discovered in gypsum-rich sand at the edge of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old, countering dominant theories in archaeology placing humans’ arrival between 13,000 and 16,000 years ago. Based on three convergent lines of evidence—datings of seeds from an aquatic plant called spiral ditchgrass, conifer pollen, and quartz grains found in the footprints—the findings suggest that humans were present on the continent at the height of the last ice age, living among the giant cats, mammoths, and sloths that inhabited the region before its gradual change of climate. What can we learn from these imprints about the ancient presences that left them behind? What might our interpretations of them tell us about ourselves?
This week, acclaimed author Anna Badkhen traces markers left in the Earth from the near and distant past, from the buffalo wallows of North America to the treasure-hiding game sekretiki she played as a child, from the histories held in whale earwax to the map of our human becoming in the Bouri Peninsula of modern-day Ethiopia. Reading each of these imprints as a kind of porthole—a window into memory, with all the retellings and reinterpretations characteristic of our messy, continual search for meaning, Anna wonders what lineage of impressions we might leave for the future.”
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From Kilmorack Gallery….
“Late October is possibly my favourite time of year. It's when summer activities fold into new winter rhythms. It brings fresh things to the gallery, and we look onwards to next year to see what's on the horizon. It is also when we bring new artists in - this month Becs Boyd, Maggie New and Rose Strang - with more planned. And this year we have our big winter exhibition - BORROWED LAND : reinventing Scottish landscape. A publication is just off to print. This previews on the 18th November and it will be an exhibition that intends to show the beauty and importance of landscape to artists and to all of us. More will be posted closer to the preview.
November also brings different opening days - Wednesdays to Saturdays and by appointment. This allows us to keep the gallery extra cosy for when you arrive, and it gives us more time to visit artists. We hope to see you by the woodburning stove soon.
Tony Davidson, Gallery Director
Kilmorack Gallery, by Beauly, Inverness-shire IV4 7AL
+44 (0) 1463 783 230
Always open by appointment. Full opening times online.
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/04/04/a-bit-of-oxon-archaeology/
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