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tunnel visions - a drama in time
seascape, sailboats, a skeleton out of darkness — tunnel visions a drama in time *** Underneath a railway bridge in Calton Road, Edinburgh five light box installations cast light on the overhead girders in green, blue and purple hues. An art work by Graham Fagan called 'A Drama in Time' which references Patrick Geddes's quote: "A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time. Underneath the light boxes various graffiti tags have been sprayed or painted on the tile
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Dec 4


alchemy of storms
small fields of metallic light hold an alchemy of storms *** Small details from a piece of sheet steel which forms part of Mike Nelson's...
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Aug 22


urban armadillo
surface curve of line and circle how to resist — touch the placing of a palm *** Detail of a carved stone dome with intersecting lines...
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Aug 22


stairwell sublime
the floating sublime on ascending a staircase *** A roughly painted rectangle of blue/green appears to float on a background of light...
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Jul 31


mise en abyme
lost in the abyss of recursive stone *** Standing in a narrow channel in the old, disused Limeworks at Charlestown Harbour. A series of...
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Jul 31


the pooling table
materiality resting hand on page light channels water — pooling wood *** Light reflecting the grain of a wooden table in Dunfermline...
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Jul 31


rus in urbe (alley)
thesis / antithesis rus in urbe dialectic *** Looking down a small lane in Glasgow. The left hand side is bounded by a metal fence; ...
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Jul 12


spectral soundings
sounded architecture sculpting spectral light *** Spectral light streaming through a window in Lutherse Kerk, The Hague, following Jules...
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Jul 12


liquid architecture
morning holds a liquid architecture *** The building opposite Den Haag Central Station reflected in the glass frontage of the station...
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Jun 23


suspended animation
a brutal box suspended animation? concrete haunches — ready to move *** Carlyle House, Kirkcaldy. A small building with an angled, glass...
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Jun 17


an angle of intense white
an angle of intense white reveals intent *** Painting by Callum Innes called “Intense White”, 2002, Oil on linen, Kirkcaldy Art Gallery....
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Jun 17


view of a city
a quiet corner — rests a suggestion of city skyline *** Windows in the City Art Centre Edinburgh. Three glass panels with eighteen...
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Jun 17


landing light
river flow of landing light *** External street light, projecting through a window of old glass onto the wooden shutter inside a dark...
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Apr 26


shuttered silence
industrial noise sunday interstice a shuttered silence *** Red stone industrial building with four windows and a door which are all...
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Apr 26


binoculars of cosmic speculation
binoculars of cosmic speculation how far? how wide? how deep? can you see? (after Jencks) *** Two very large ceramic pipe sections,...
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Apr 26


slow time
tactile colourfield green revealing *** Sheet metal cladding, painted red, that has weathered with outer layers peeling off, revealing...
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Apr 26


interior / exterior
the shifting space — between inside & outside *** Abandoned factory in Kirkcaldy, Fife. A rectangular building which had lost most of...
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Apr 13


panopticon (reverse)
who is watching who? *** Four small, square, interior windows, set in a white wall in Modern One, the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art ,...
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Apr 13


flaring / lapping
flaring / lapping mark making harmonies of singing stone *** Flare of sunshine hitting a small wall supporting a disused railway line....
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Apr 13


gone to earth
gone to earth: light tracings of meteor showers across the night sky; deep time skyline above the edge of the frozen loch (railway...
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Jan 6
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