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Carbon Synthesis – Field notes and Discoveries
‘The relation between land and weather does not cut across an impermeable interface between earth and sky but is rather one between the binding and unbinding of the world.’ Tim Ingold, Earth, sky, wind and weather. After 5 years of […]
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December and January Field notes
‘matter resolves itself into numberless vibrations, all linked together in uninterrupted continuity, all bound up with each other, and traveling in every direction like shivers’ (Bergson, 1990:208) As my official residency period ends I have been reflecting on the […]
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November Fieldnotes
The landscape of a peat bog is muted especially in winter, but on closer inspection there is a fantastic array of colours in this landscape. There has been a marked drop in temperature this month. A change in cloud cover […]
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October Fieldnotes
Much of this year has been about noticing small details, strange patterns, colours or just one particular view changing with the seasons. October was very much a threshold of the changing seasons. Peat levels began to rise again as leaves […]
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September Fieldnotes
Unseasonal weather this month, extremely warm and dry. Often the walks on the moss were under cloudless skies. The air heavy and still and the water levels very low. Heather was in full bloom and the trees are beginning to […]
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August – Fieldnotes and observations
This month was challenging for visiting the moss. Between having to self-isolate and trying to grab a few days holiday I feel I have been absent for long stretches. The absences have meant that seasonal changes have been dramatic, the […]
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July Fieldnotes and discoveries.
For the last six years or so I have been asking questions about the mosslands of Greater Manchester. Questions revolving around a sense of connection to older ways of knowing and being in the land, knowledge informed through touch. Knowing […]
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June – Field notes and discoveries.
“I knew when I’d looked for a long time that I’d hardly begun to see” Nan Shepherd The temperature finally began to rise as water levels began to drop. Winter Hill drifts out of focus in shades of blue and […]
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Carbon Synthesis – Field notes and discoveries.
May Fieldnotes. “A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning.” Hermann Hesse, Wandering, […]
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Carbon Synthesis – Field notes and discoveries.
April fieldnotes. The more I visit this place, the more I realise I need to try and identify the many layers of sound, subtly framing my view and immersing me. I set myself the task of visiting weekly to look […]
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Carbon Synthesis – Field notes and discoveries.
End of March visits have seen another super Moon (Worm Moon) Extremely windy conditions meant that my overnight cyanotypes captured some movement as the wind whipped up the water and created little currents through the grass. The days following the […]
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Carbon Synthesis – Field notes and discoveries.
Microscopic relationships by Donna Franklin. Over the last few months Donna has been looking at small scale ecologies which lead to global outcomes. Specifically looking at Lichen and Fungi, and the possibilities of using them as bio-indicators of pollution levels. […]