From rivers to fields to Highlands…
An update on the Above Me The Wide Blue Sky pop-up. As Autumn is unfolding I’ve been out and about walking and talking with folk all over the UK. Meeting young couples, grown families, early morning swimming pals, to share a journey and the particularities of the places they call home. From the lakes and lidos of London, through fields and cemeteries, to the Highlands of Scotland, gathering what’s described, what’s noticed, what’s remembered and not quite forgotten – moorhen red, a child turning with the March yellow flower, lush green, the smell of the sea coming up from the… Read More
Heading North
London to York. York to Perth. Perth to Inverness. Inverness to Thurso. Thurso to Dunnet Head. Dunnet Head: the most northerly point on the British mainland. Further north than John o’Groats. A high-cliffed headland jutting out into the far reaches of the North Sea. And we’re here collecting stories, making films, taking photos, archiving memories. Research for Above Me The Wide Blue Sky, our next show, our meditation on nature. Also research for An Infinite Line: Dunnet Head, a new project about this far northern light. On a high-cliffed headland, surrounded by sea and sky, rain above, water below, studded… Read More