Learning to live in the body – not over and above it – has taken me the last twenty years of conscious thought. It strikes me that the way one lives in one’s body could be examined in relationship to the way one lives on the earth.
I picked up this leaf in the path on a walk up the mountain behind my house. I have been thinking about ‘frames’. The way we frame things or select views of things by framing them – both intellectually or philosophically, our own view finder is our mental horizon. (We...
Moss can grow green in an instant. It embodies an analogy of how something can shift from being dry, stuck and inert to undergoing an utter transformation. This happens to people sometimes. Everything can change in an instant. Love is like water. Having just written...
This was the first bird I drew. It died in my hand in mid winter of 2009. It was a baby bird and while it died I tried with all my might to warm it up and to put some life back into it. That moment seemed to be a turning point in my life. I did what I have always...
My very deep gratitude for my friendship with Claire Beynon who went on two excursions to the Antarctic on trips led by Dr Sam Bowser of the American polar research team. On the second trip in 2008 Claire and Sam took my work onto the ice to make sound recordings, to...
