Landscape Poetry

June 6, 2017January 19, 2020 / ess grange

An investigation of writing and landscape. This is an ongoing project, begun in the Welsh hills and continued on Sherkin Island, Ireland.

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A grey stony shore of a stream, with the stream itself running along the lower half of the image. Cutting between shore and water, partially submerged, is a long strip of paper with not-quite-legible writing on it.

A wild stream with rocks and pebbles in the foreground, and a green bank beyond the water. In the stream, under the water, is a long strip of paper that might have writing on it.

Ess stands on a grassy bank of a stream, wearing a green hoodie, leather jacket, cut-off denim shorts, black leggings and green wellies. They are a white human with short brown curly hair. They are holding both ends of a long strip of white paper or fabric which has caught in the wind and is twisting, looping and blowing away from them to the right, out over the stream.

A concrete hut sits on overgrown grass somewhere wild. The shelter has a steeply sloping roof, slanting down from a sharp apex on the far left. of the image. Bright sunlight coming from directly behind the shelter makes a shadow that reaches towards the front of the picture. To the right of the shelter an uneven edge to the land and the prow of a small boat imply there is ocean beyond. The shelter has a doorway open in the left half of the visible wall. It is dark inside, just about possible to make out rough brickwork, and something like a bunch of drying herbs hanging from the lintel. On the expanse of concrete wall to the right of the doorway, crude chalk writing reads "you'll know what to do"

A rough dirty white wall and floor green with moss and mould. 5 strips of black paper are assembled around a circular block of stone or cement. On the stone are some piees of chalk and charcoal. The black papers have various drawings or words on them - a white chalk moon, a bare footprint in chalk, other symbols or letters that are not legible.

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