‘In the Windows’……BBC Pics of Scotland…..It’s A Hoot….
by Bernie Bell - 09:03 on 11 February 2024
‘In The Windows’….
We received notification of Sarah Keast’s ‘In The Windows’ exhibition at ‘Northlight’ Gallery, Stromness, where Sarah is showing three prints on the theme of navigation, loss and finding the way.
We checked out her work on her website…..
…….and liked what we saw, so when Mike went into Stromness he looked in the windows and took some pictures…..
The windows were a bit storm-spattered with rain – which seemed somehow fitting.
The exhibition will be in the windows of ‘Northlight’ until 24th February.
Here’s something I wrote in my blog recently which Sarah’s ‘Liminal Lands’ work reminded me of….
“‘Waterlog’….
‘Waterlog’ isn’t fiction, it’s a true tale told by a true person. It's mostly about wild swimming, of which Roger Deakin was a great advocate.
Near the beginning - in fact pages 7-15 - he describes a visit to the Isles of Scilly. He describes walking in a Bronze-age landscape on land, and then he "went down for a swim in the Bronze-age fields." He snorkels out into a shallow bay, over the continuation of the Bronze-age landscape. He sees how the water snails echo the land snails, on the walls.
Long story short - it's a wonderful evocation of the idea of how some of the land has been covered by the sea but there is still a connection, more than a connection, one still flows into the other.
It's an enormously interesting subject - the change in the landscape and therefore in land-use.
It’s also an exceptionally good book/good read, in which Roger Deakin takes the reader with him on both his aquatic journey and his spiritual journey.”
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BBC Pics of Scotland…..
2nd – 9th of February 2024….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3g0dqjy1v0o
Ann McGregor – in the shadow of an eagle?
Matthew Reynolds’ tartan guitar – remember the Bay City Rollers?
Amanda Gilbertson – happiness is a muddy dog!
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It’s A Hoot….
Or should that be a howl?....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-68253891
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