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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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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


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


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


suspended isolation
suspended isolation — floating in the never-ending blue *** Small single white cloud, suspended in a clear, blue sky np: Oren Ambarchi —...
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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


liquid metal
to view the wind in a metallic puddle *** Wind patterns on the surface of a small puddle of water reflecting the overhead sky. Gives the...
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Apr 26


an invitation to pareidolia
small surface colour world *** Small section of tree trunk covered in various green, orange & grey lichens and mosses. np: — Enrico Rava...
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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


stilled life
stilled life small worlds a pause between forms *** Frozen water gathered at the side of an agricultural field. Amongst the frozen ice...
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Jan 23


winter music
old glass — sun pools of winter music *** Winter sun filtering through old glass, projecting on to a light yellow wall. Silhouette is...
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Jan 23


erratic circles
cracked actor: erratic circles of the wandering line *** Frozen puddle on hard brown earth. A single cracked line in the ice has traced a...
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Jan 23


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


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
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