Recent work and work in progress and anything else that interests me. Are memories inherently melancholy? When in the form of objects or photographs they do seem to be. Vitrines from the museum are now on show in London, at Somerset House. A Turkish form of melancholy.

It was only for a few days. The immediate sensory world became a continuum of white and grey. A familiar world made strange. Almost all colour, leached from the field of vision and imagination. Is on the reading pile. The Idea of North;.

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down. Oh roads we used to tread,. If you are a private individua.

Navigating the interface between landscape history and deep topography;. Exploring landscape - an evolving gazetteer of landscape on the web. Thursday, 4 January 2018. Pathways through long winter days until bright Phoebus shines down again. A quick ramble here through an assemblage of mid-winter cultural highlights. If record shops are a species indicator of a civilised polis. Store A first wander around the racks yielded Bright Pheobus.

Musings on prints, drawings and other thoughts committed to paper. A few photos from the evening before my madcap Five-Church Dash. An old curiosity shop in the Oltrarno. Medici Lion, Loggia dei Lanzi. June 23, 2015 3 Comments.

For months now, the sounds of thunder and falling rock from the big hole had been mingling with the screams of the zip-wire thrill junkies, their cries carried on the wind to this side of the hill. My curiosity was piqued by the constant noises. I wanted to go up to the badlands and take a quiet look over the edge of the opencast. Sunday, 21 June 2015. Which has a handy description of the paths around Tal-eithin uchaf.

Derelict Mansions from the Borders to the Highlands. Ruin of the Month Reports. Thank you for visiting Ruination Scotland, an art project by Duncan Tattersall. Please use the menu bar to enter the site and discover more. Create a free website or blog at WordPress. Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Plumbing the depths on the south coast of England. And as I have noted before. This was a most appropriate symbolic initiation into the liminal world of the Shoreline. Page has been updated to reflect the fact that the project has now ended. What was it all about? .