Trench Z….E.O.A.S.S.K……..From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
by Bernie Bell - 08:09 on 04 September 2024
Trench Z…..
….provides new evidence…
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/revisiting-enclosed-complex/
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E.O.A.S.S.K……..
We ordered an E.O.A.S.S.K. to go in our Ness Cairn….
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16986
It arrived, I placed it next to our first one, by Michael Sinclair’s bowl…
….and now, of course, I’d like it to stay there!
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/01/07/timelines-of-an-orkney-wood-turner/
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
“IN OUR LATEST FILM, The Last Ice Age, Icelandic storyteller Andri Snær Magnason says mythology can help us grasp the reality of our quickening climate crisis; creating “equations that explain the bigger picture.” The idea that myth works at a scale that can encompass and translate the complexity of our ecological unraveling is familiar ground for Andri. Over the past five years he has shared several works on Emergence exploring how this kind of storytelling can open our awareness to the loss and possibility that’s unfolding. This week, we revisit an interview with Andri from 2019—not long after Iceland had lost its first large glacier—which expands on some of the themes explored in the film, including our sense of time and connecting to future generations through chains of love. Plus, a short fiction story from Andri entitled “Giantstone”—a mythic tale that looks at how the objects we make reflect and perpetuate our ideologies.
On Time and Water
An Interview with Andri Snær Magnason
“This is actually a creative story, or apocalyptic. That is, if it can be experienced in a single lifetime by a single human being that can tell it from beginning to end, that is mythological.”
The warming of the planet is ushering in changes on a mythological scale. Oceans heat up, ice shelves melt, great floods swallow landscapes, ancient forests are reduced to ash. In this conversation, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason speaks about how such incomprehensible changes—the stuff of our wildest apocalyptic tales—are accelerating geological timescales. Instead of playing out over millennia, vast transformations of the Earth are now happening in the span of a lifetime, and in rapid succession. Considering how we can shift our sense of time to comprehend an uncertain future with greater clarity, Andri turns to the task of creating a new mythology, drawing on poetry, memories, stories from his grandparents, and language that infuses meaning into the data-led narrative of the climate crisis. He also unpacks the simple power of empathy between generations—an idea he speaks about in The Last Ice Age—by sharing an experiment he held at his kitchen table with his grandmother, mother, and daughter to imagine love for someone living 250 years in the future.
The Last Ice Age
Directed by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
In the third film of our four-part Shifting Landscapes documentary film series, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason tries to understand what the vanishing of Europe’s largest ice cap, Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, might mean for the future of the planet. As he retraces his grandparents’ annual spring journey to the glacier with his son Hylnur, he reaches for the myths—the family memories and stories that bind him to this landscape—that can help him fathom the accelerating transformation of this ancient glacier. Such incomprehensible shifts in the geology of the Earth, he says, are either “a creation story or a destruction story”—one we must learn to tell beyond the limitations of data if there is to be a change in the ways we understand and care for the future.
Giantstone
by Andri Snær Magnason
Translated by Philip Roughton
This short story, which Andri wrote for our third print edition, Living with the Unknown, follows an architect in Reykjavík grappling with the growing discord between his creativity and a capitalist reality, and searching for meaning amid architectural expressions of greed. Laying bare the ways narratives of control and human supremacy can manifest in the physical objects we make, “Giantstone” asks us to consider what new stories could begin to shape our inner and outer worlds. Will we remain stuck in our humancentric philosophies, or will our art come to reflect a way of life that keeps and cares for the Earth?
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