Some images from Limnology, installed at the Paul Stolper Gallery, London, April 29th – May 1st, as part of “The Silence Between” series.
Category Archives: Texts
Scárdán
Scárdán, postcard, A6, 325gsm uncoated card, edition of 500.
The Silence Between
Limnology will be installed at the Paul Stolper Gallery, London, April 29th – May 1st, as part of “The Silence Between” series.
The exhibition will incorporate the music on headphones and a specially commissioned case-bound edition of the accompanying book, presented on a V-shaped display cradle – imitating a valley through which the text/river flows.
The music and book will be accompanied by a series of five new prints, one of which can be seen above. Each is a form of palimpsest – the 1000+ word glossary of ‘water words’ overwritten by an almost asemic patterning of characters derived from the glossary itself, but virtually unreadable. These texts, like many of those within the Limnology book, dramatise the poem which originally appeared in Landings:
What line did the river first write in the valley?
What sense, made over and over, now senseless?
Dissolved salts. Glacial memories.
Inklings of maternal violence
written in moraines,
in alluvium,
in pulverised rock.
(A syllabary, loosened
from grit and clay.)
What is the true note deep within the foss,
heard, straining, above the froth and laughter?
An ancient, unchanging music
that scores valleys,
intones, beckons,
ushers them
into existence.
Rill (Postcard)
Rill: postcard, A6, 350gsm silk card, edition of 500.
Limnology Book + CD
Limnology: texts and music for rivers, lakes and other inland waterways.
Forthcoming via Corbel Stone Press.
Limnology
Limnology: text on 300gsm A3 paper, lithograph, edition of 50, numbered, signed.
Limnology: text on 350gsm A4 paper, digital print, edition of 50, numbered, signed.
Ulpha Wheel
Wheel showing a partial toponymic history of Ulpha, encircling a list of animal names derived from specific place-names within its catchment.
Inter / Disinter 2
Multitude
MULTITUDE. A pamphlet, after Alice Meynell’s Rushes and Reeds.
Forthcoming via Corbel Stone Press.
Decline
One of the interesting things about collage is that there are two surfaces – the first, outward facing and readily visible, the other, inward facing, concealed, oblique. If the paper isn’t entirely opaque, there is sometimes a faint trace, a ghost imprint of the hidden stratum. A message in reverse.
134 Kestrels
DOMAIN. A pamphlet in which a poem about the kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) hovers over a landscape composed of folk-names for the bird in English, Welsh, Irish and Gaelic.
Kestrel populations are in decline in the UK. The reasons are as yet unknown, but it is thought that habitat loss is a key factor. The 134 folk-names gathered here are something of a linguistic population count. By no means complete, the list represents a historical, rather than contemporary, survey – a form of salvage, a shoring up, an attempt to stem the tide.
DOMAIN is forthcoming via Corbel Stone Press.
Rill
Inter / Disinter
Moor Glisk
MOOR GLISK. A book of fragmentary texts about the West Pennine Moors in northern England. An extension and collage of Landings, amongst other texts, retelling the history of the county of Lancaster, its industry, language, topography, flora and fauna.
And the moor wheels…
Anglezarke Moor “Wheel”, detailing a partial toponymic narrative of the place-name Anglezarke, from 1202 to 1894.
Silver on Grey
Silver on grey offset lithography.
Black Combe
An excerpt from Black Combe, forthcoming via Æolian Editions.
Cappanawalla
An excerpt from Cappanawalla, forthcoming via Æolian Editions.
Bracken
Ridgelines
