by Geoff | Jul 1, 2023 | Glastonbury, Somerset, Travelling Community, Zig Zag Building
The Zig Zag building in Glastonbury had another Open Day today. ‘Built in 1934 and known as the Bauhaus by the Morland factory family who used it for manufacturing sheepskin slippers, gloves and coats. Left derelict between 1980 and 2013, it is now hosting...
by Geoff | Jan 27, 2023 | Dorset, Great Stone Project 2022, Quarries, Stone, Stone Circles, UK
Great Stone Project 2022 I have flirted with Portland for several years, journeying down most years to stay at the Portland Bird Observatory, and walking around its coastline and exploring some of its quarries without really committing to photographing the...
by Geoff | Dec 17, 2022 | FujiGFX50r, Somerset, Somerset Levels, UK, Weston Zoyland
A conscientious artist often revisits locations or themes for further exploration or development. I am guilty of revisiting cemeteries, cities, countries, landscapes and wildernesses in the hope I will be able to see something differently. ...
by Geoff | Dec 17, 2022 | John Fowles, Lyme Regis, UK
The ghost of the novellist John Fowles continues to haunt Lyme Regis. He lived in a large house overlooking the Undercliffe, the wild terrain which was formed following the regular landslips which occur in the porous cliffs travelling west towards...
by Geoff | Nov 16, 2022 | Art, Bristol, Street art, UK
Accredited with origins in New York in the late 1960s, attempts have repeatedly been made to define Street Art. It is without doubt a phenomenon in the 21st century, with public spaces around the world being celebrated and decorated in visually...
by Geoff | Nov 15, 2022 | Somerset, UK
The beach adjacent to the building site of Hinkley C nuclear power station is reached by following a non-signposted one way road until it leads to a muddy track, and then by driving along the track until parking beside an articulated bouy at the track’...
by Geoff | Nov 15, 2022 | Bluestones, Phenomenology, Preseli Hills, Quarries, Stone, Stonehenge, UK
Great Stone Project 2022 The Preseli Hills, in South West Wales, uniquely contain outcrops of a particular type of rock which has played a central role in a long time mystery at Stonehenge. A team of eminent archaeologists led by Professor Mike...
by Geoff | Sep 16, 2022 | Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, Great Stone Project 2022, Leskernick, Phenomenology, Quarries, Stone, Stone Circles, UK
Great Stone Project 2022 : Phenomenological Study of Leskernick Hill, Bodmin, 1995 -1999 The small hill of Lesternick is a relatively well preserved site of considerable Bronze Age occupation and remains. It’s claim to fame...
by Geoff | Sep 10, 2022 | Antiquities, Churches, Dartmoor, Great Stone Project 2022, Phenomenology, Quarries, Stone, Stone Circles
Great Stone Project 2022 : Dartmoor is a formidable lump of granite in the county of Devon. The seam of granite runs down from Devon and into Cornwall and becomes exposed firstly on the crags of Bodmin Moor and then later down on the...
by Geoff | Sep 6, 2022 | Great Stone Project 2022, Isle of Lewis, Phenomenology, Scotland, Stone, Stone Circles, UK, Western Isles
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