Berlin dérive – Tiergarten
Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling. Walter Benjamin awaken, to the spooling thread of...
View ArticleTwo Spectral Trees – Somewhere North of Devilla Forest
Looking up to the ridge, over the evergreen crowns, two spectral trees hang mid-air in the limpid heat. A smoke spiral, all coiled movement, settles to stillness as a Rorschach blot of charcoal...
View ArticleSearching for Storione – A walk with the ghosts of Little Moscow
Our research unit hasn’t exactly excelled itself. A scribbled address on a torn piece of paper is all that we have: Communist Literature Depot, 128 Perth Road, Cowdenbeath. This is the only material...
View ArticleTo dwell means to leave traces
. Very small ghost sign on doorway entrance, St Leonard’s Street, Southside, Edinburgh. . “To dwell means to leave traces”. Walter Benjamin . . On the front elevation of the same building. Traces of...
View ArticleFragments of Istria: an Assemblage
We could eat this sky. Stretch up, scoop out handfuls; smear our faces and taste the fanfare of sunset. II Out of red earth lines of olive trees, vines and quarried stone. Centuries of...
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