Mountain Walk 1: Wed 1 Mar 2023

Gathering drawings, photos, notes, ideas on the hoof

Just stop
Still
Affordances

Touchstones, landmarks- identity, memory- give them a word, name them make them solid, real- differentiate a stone from all other stones

Walking running stitches steps

Reflection
Sheds – tin roofs – shed
Big sky
Sunspots on sea and mountain
Stones

Reflection- invert sky and earth reversal

Mountain – no owner
Common ground
steadfast
Mountain to sky
Solid slow moving to nebulous rapidly changing

Lines of communication- telephone pole= figure
Signal posts
Power lines

Flocks of birds- in air on shore formation

Fences – lines- parallel lines – sheds
Imposition of order
ownership

Steps – step counter- mark on a big long stream of paper – tangled like brambles
Steps = thorns
Wyn bush thorns
Distinctive Smell and colour
thorny person – like a briar theday

Trying not to name things

Mountain as a sentient being – has a character- a ‘ personality’
A voice-Windpipe, wind hum- wind pipe
teeth
Teeth pipes
Pan pipes
Gate pipe tune

brambles
clouds

complicated and thorny – no solidity, centre – difficult
Sleeping Beauty- hack away through the thorns to get to the love, the prize, the glowing heart
Sleeping Beauty POV – hacking a way out – dormant, resting, shut in blinds down, repressed, – bursting out, slashing out, lashing out,

Reliquary crown of thorns