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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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2 days ago


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


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


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


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


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


returning
always a cheering sight when the blossom returns & ‘pops’ *** Hanging strands of cherry plum blossom, set against a rustic stone wall....
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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


desire lines
back to following the desire lines *** Cracks in an asphalt pavement with water ingress creating a network of sark, interlocking lines....
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Jan 6


fallen / found
fallen / found or the festive morning after *** Sprig of cotoneaster, with red berries, lying on top of a moss-furred surface. np: Taylor...
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Jan 3


cone alone
cone alone form, no function *** Single traffic cone sitting on a piece of ground covered in brown, fallen leaves and green ivy. To the...
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Jan 3


form glow
form glow sun on stone *** Bright winter sunlight hitting exterior stonework on a tenement building , the New Town of Edinburgh. np: King...
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Jan 1


slow metallic rain
slow metallic rain books protector *** Detail of rusted metal cladding on the exterior extension of the first ever Carnegie Library, in...
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Jan 1


writing the city
gather up the stories in line and form — plot from earth to sky *** Brightly painted and tagged graffiti fence runs beside an older...
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Sep 26, 2024


memory alcove
fade of movement and memory — to stasis feral greenings in quiet edges *** Small white harled building with a grey shuttered frontage...
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Sep 18, 2024


Metallic K.O.
Metallic K.O. meets Miro *** Close up of a rusted metal plate on the outside of the Co-op building in Rosyth. Various scratches and...
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Aug 28, 2024


settled
light sculpture a settled surface *** Shadow of mature trees falling on the surface of a pond covered in green chickweed. A tree stump...
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Aug 14, 2024
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