Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Memory”
“I had a sense of being propelled into the future while at the same time reversed into the prehistoric past. A past which held an animistic idea of the world, in which rocks and trees could speak” Leckey, in Wallis & Coustou 2019,16 This week, I was lucky enough to …
These past twenty months have been difficult, for everyone. Periods of intense highs and crushing lows, peaks, and troughs far more intense than any rollercoaster. I am currently struggling, badly. My mental health has plummeted to such an extent that thoughts I hoped I’d never experience again, have re-emerged over …
Slapped, spittle spattered, the girl ran. Ran towards the flyover, her place of safety, the space where others feared to tread, let alone linger. Here, the girl fell out of sight, out of time. The concrete enveloping her like wings, supplying solace, sanctuary, a place to breathe… A hot summer’s …
“This is the land of the Saxons. I want to discover where they buried their warriors and kings” Detectorists, Season 1, Episode 1 There are many who claim that we should look to the skies, to the future, in order to progress, to connect. But there’s a lot to be …
This week I headed over to the latest ‘monument’ to arise in London, the Marble Arch Mound. Opened to the public earlier this year, it has been the subject of much controversy, due, in part, to its somewhat ‘unique’ aesthetic, and that its cost, from design through to completion, has …
A few weeks ago, I ventured to Kent to say ‘hello’ to Robert Calvert, a pivotal member of the band, Hawkwind, whose physical remains rest alongside his son, Daren, at Minster. It was an exceptionally quiet Friday afternoon. A few people visited the cemetery to bring offerings to loved ones, …
These past few weeks I’ve been looking inwards, frequently. My Twitter timeline seems to have suddenly become inundated with positive ‘BuzzTweets’; ‘Don’t worry about what’s happened, focus on what’s ahead’, ‘Today’s a new day, a new beginning, so smile’, but why should I? Maybe all this toothsome positivity is manifesting …
“The movement embodied in islands is the ‘consciousness of the earth and ocean’, a place where the dual elements of the earth’s surface are in sharp relief” Rainbird 2007, 1; Deleuze 2004, 11 Since the earlier 19th century islands have been viewed as insular environments, somewhat segregated, whether voluntarily, or …
For our very first guest conversation, I’m really chuffed, and incredibly humbled, to introduce award winning director and screenwriter, Ben Wheatley, into the Liminal Worlds. Ben is one of the most original, and exciting, filmmakers of the past decade, best known for Kill List (2011), A Field In England (2013), …
Over 80 timber circles have been documented within the Scottish archaeological record, varying in size from 2.5m to over 75m. The majority of these monuments were constructed during the Later Neolithic, c. 3000 – 2450 BCE, and are located within extensive ceremonial centres, and as singular monuments. Archaeologists are still …
