I bleeding love liminality, so I do
A couple of years ago I gave a short presentation in which I pondered whether the smartphone, in particular the Apple iPhone, could be considered the modern equivalent to Palaeolithic, most notably Acheulean, handaxes. This may, initially, sound like a somewhat strange notion, I’m hoping that by the end of …
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 …
As an archaeological researcher, and landscape punk, I like to wander. Day or night; in sunshine, rain, howling wind, or driving snow, I find solace through walking. I’ve always enjoyed roaming. From an early age I used to traverse the council estate where I spent the first part of my …
“I guess the modern ghost is a product of technology. On a psychological level, as soon as you get a moving image, its nearest analogy is a ghost or a phantom. Ghosts in the moving image have always been inextricably linked” Mark Leckey, in Wallis & Coustou 2019, 17 Special …
Having lived in London for over 12 years (yikes, it was only meant to be for 6 months), I’ve fallen in love with the architectural stratigraphies that make the city the vibrantly disjointed, at times physically and psychologically overbearing, (pre)historical palimpsest that we bear witness to today. As an archaeologist …
I have been somewhat obsessed with pylons since I was a young child, especially after my dad told me about how they help to convey energy around the world. For a young, socially awkward girl, living alone with her dad, this was a revelation. I began having vivid dreams where …
The term, liminal, is derived from the Latin word for threshold, limen. Writers often employ the term ‘Crossing the Threshold’ for the moment the hero steps out of their ‘ordinary world’ and enters into the ‘world of adventure’ (Caroline Lawrence, pers comm). A liminal place can be described as a …
“To envision a future in which the chimney no longer stands but something of its substance and its story persists nonetheless – to understand change not as a loss but as a release into other states, unpredictable and open” (Desilvey 2017, 3). Do we need to retain the ‘original’ in …
The year is 2220, humans still exist as corporeal entities, not all have chosen, or can afford, to upload their consciousnesses fully to the network. Physical landscapes also persist, however, due to cataclysmic environmental change, these geological stratigraphies are now only accessed as points of reference. Archives, both geomorphological and …
During these past few months of lockdown, I’ve had time to sit and consider things that perhaps wouldn’t normally be at the forefront of my mind. The fact that as a person with a heavily compromised immune system I am one of the people who have been placed on our …
