first snow

the first snows of the 2009 winter walking season, on the summit of Beinn Nan Aighenan, Sunday November 8th.

A Wilder Vein

 I haven't read this yet (though I'm sure I will), but I thought Robert McFarlane's foreward to A Wilder Vein summed up so well one of the core reasons I'm so interested in Landscape.

"Repeatedly, these writers return to the idea that cognition is site-specific, or motion-sensitive: that we think differently in different landscapes. And therefore, more radically, that certain thoughts might be possible only in certain places, such that when we lose those places, we are losing kinds of imagination as well."

Topographies and Tales

This is me in a still from a video installation shown at Render, in Ontario, Canada recently...

My friend Alice has finished a film entitled Topographies and Tales she's been working on for a few years now, filming in Canada and Scotland.

The Proboscis website says:

A film by Alice Angus and Joyce Majiski using music, oral recordings, drawing, animation and storytelling to playfully unearth local and personal stories, memories and myths against a picture of how concepts of space and environment are shaped by ideas of belonging and home. A personal exploration of the intimate way people form relationships with their environments, Topographies and Tales takes a journey through the myths and perceptions the filmmakers encountered on their travels in the west of Scotland and the Yukon.

Topographies and Tales, 12.52min 2009 from Proboscis on Vimeo.