Tag Archives: Whisper into a Hole
Pages are cavernous places, white at entrance, black in absorption. Echo. If I’m transformed by language, I am often crouched in footnote or blazing in title. Where in the body do I begin; What’s your deal with burnout, my librarian aka Mr. Minus? After several months of listening to me speak from your shelves, you’ve […]
Architectural ruins and dematerialised art objects share their sense of potential with the archaeological traces of dùn (fort), suidhe (seats), temples, cup-and-ring marked rocks and shieling. These dark relics have offered poets and artists mytho-poetic conspectus to conjure new-and-yet-older Scotlands. For instance, the landscape installations, performances and projections created by Angus Farquhar’s NVA are ambitious projects that riff off […]