From Team Swandro…..From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Bernie Bell - 09:06 on 16 December 2024
From Team Swandro…..
“Fame at last! The Time Team special filmed at Swandro during the summer has gone live and is freely available on YouTube
Just the thing for cheering everyone up, featuring interviews with Steve & Julie by our old friend John Gater, some nice close ups of some of the finds, and drone footage from our very own Lindsey Kemp. The weather mostly cooperated when they were here but there is some good footage of a typical Orkney squall heading towards us.
Jackie McKinley was still digging with us when they visited, so we had two Time Team regulars on site at the same time, all filmed by producer Emily using remarkably little kit.
They did come right at the end of the season, so there were lots of sandbags visible including our bright yellow 2024 additions, plus the tide was in, which I think helped with the sense of urgency regarding the threat from coastal erosion.
Hope you all enjoy watching the video as much as we did, it brings back happy memories and we're all now really looking forward to next summer. All that remains is for Team Swandro to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!
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“When the Prince of Heaven Sleeps
“Here is how I will interrupt the time of the arena, time as a weapon used against the world’s subdued—by placing a sleeping Muhammad Ali in front of you, not as a spectacle but as a break, a pause, as another sense of time.”
Time has no grip in our interior world. In the depths of contemplation or reflection, time is no longer a piston thrusting the world ever-forward. Instead, the clock stops and we are free to simply be.
In this essay, poet Roger Reeves reclaims this space as a protest against capitalistic time and the yoke of labor that we have come to expect the Black man to always carry. Questioning how the media persistently portrays Black men—bodies moving tirelessly, in constant motion, working slave-like; and bodies lifeless—Roger instead centers images of rest: Muhammad Ali slumbering in a four-poster bed, John Coltrane washing dishes within the four walls of his house, DMX watering orchids, and Mike Tyson caring, with utmost tenderness, for his flock of pigeons. These images of bodies immersed in the midst of domesticity, in the banality of the everyday, are a countermelody to the prescription that Black men must work for society’s gaze. In their stillness, solitude, and silence—dwelling in the largeness of their interiority—they are freed from the control of time to reflect, to dream, and to sleep.
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