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Longer horizons
Today’s weather forecast was terrible: torrential rain and a yellow warning for thunderstorms, so I thought I would nip out in advance of the bad weather and have another look at the horizon around Bwlch y Ddeufaen. As it happens […]
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Tiny horizons
Drypoint etchings on re-purposed clear plastic (from the lid of a box of chocolates). They’re completely out of scale here as the “plates” are only 10cm. long. Not really suitable for hanging from a high gantry in an arts centre, […]
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Pylon thoughts
I’ve been making some preliminary studies derived from horizon lines. The most obvious thing about Bwlch y Ddeufaen is its’ bleakness: peaty moorland, rocks, no trees to speak of. The next most obvious things are the electricity pylons. Two rows […]
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Decisions?
Thinking about the practicalities of making a large piece of work to hang high above a communal space … it needs to be big enough to make an impact; it needs to be robust enough to hang in moving […]
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Not really struggling with the technology, honest.
I was back at Bwlch y Ddeufaen last week in the sunshine and bitterly cold wind. I remembered to make a video, but forgot to take the furry microphone cover thingy (baffle? muff?) so the results are much as you […]
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Oh dear, oh dear oh dear.
It really is ten months since I looked at this page properly. I have written nothing whatsoever since May 2024. I have just wrapped up (in all senses) a considerable body of work for “Printmakers Pushing the Boundaries” in preparation […]
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A bit of self-justification
I tell myself (and anyone who might listen) that I’m not a natural blogger and that I find writing about myself very difficult. True. However … social media have taken over the world and and and I hate to say […]
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Final thoughts (for the time being).
At the height of my enthusiasm for the deep map of Bwlch y Ddeufaen I had a major installation planned: the long map on one wall; the “data” displayed as numbers and text overlapping on transparent paper, framed and assembled […]
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Yes – there really is a seventh-month gap here.
Dark times, indeed. Or more like grey-ish in my case. Despite being fit (at the moment, fingers crossed), having enough to eat and being otherwise secure I have found it impossible to do much meaningful work since the summer. But, […]
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Solid reading matter.
About two-thirds of the way into the project I thought I had better read the seminal tome on the subject of deep mapping: ‘Prairyerth’ by William Least Heat-Moon. I’m about half way through it, and although it’s very interesting I’m […]
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Untitled blog post from "Deep mapping in North Wales – Art and Archaeology"
The end of the writing is in sight at last – having spent an unnecessarily large amount of time on doing 1500 (ish) words about my project I have almost, almost got to the point where it might be sort […]
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Odd times to be ‘deep mapping’.
The late Clifford McLucas formulated a ten-point manifesto for deep mapping, and suggested that the outcome should have three components: a graphic element, which should be large; a database; a time-based media component. Based on minimum ‘live’ visual research in […]