Tuesday November 10th, 09:57 – 10:03
128.6o to 141.4o
Wind S 2 (gusting 3), T 12C (feels like 13C), 75% cloud cover
Tar-spotted sycamore leaves strewn across the grass autumn robin’s song Along brick walls and double yellow lines alleyway lines of sight
Monday November 9th, 07:24 – 07:27
218.6o to 231.4 o
Wind S 1 (gusting 2), T 10C (feels like 10C), 75% cloud cover, light rain
As I round a corner two blackbirds fly from their leaf litter hunting. Cycle light’s diamond dazzle slices the dawn rain gulls cry unseen
Sunday November 8th, 09:01 – 09:06
334.3 o to 347.1 o
Wind SE 1 (gusting 3), T 9C (feels like 9C), 100% cloud cover
Three jackdaws and two crows chack caw to the day from the tree tops Car and near empty bus noise by beyond the wall a robin sings
Saturday November 7th, 09:02 – 09:19
205.7 o to 218.6 o
Wind S 2 (gusting 3), T 6C (feels like 6C), 50% cloud cover
In the dripping grass dew draws spiders’ webs into plain sight. Copse earth speckled bronze with fallen oak leaves two pigeons clatter-flap away.
Friday November 6th, 06:56 – 07:01
180.0o to 192.9o
Wind N 1(gusting 1), T 5C (feels like 5C), 100% cloud cover
Dew drenched grass under thick dawn fog. Follow along the fence line. Main road cars pulse by. Meadow Pipit’s flick-bounce flight off into the mist.
A walk round Contención Island Thursday November 5th, 09:48 – 09:52
64.3o to 77.1o
Wind W 3 (gusting 4), T 10C (feels like 8C), 62% cloud cover
Crossing the street a great tit’s bounce-flight. Holly bush’s red berries.
Hello. A November lockdown – lockdown-2 … lockdown-lite – and again I have the question of an artistic response. So … having spent the spring lockdown creating Contención Island (https://martinpeccles.com/other-sound-works/the-42-walks-of-contencion-island/) I now plan to walk its edge, to walk the shoreline of the island and, in so doing, to also mark the days of lockdown.
With a compass in the middle of the island, I have measured 28 equal angles and, where each cuts the island rim produces 28 stretches of coastline – all of different lengths. I will walk one each day and, over 28 days, will build a walk around the entire island.
I will walk clockwise and the order in which I walk the sections will be determined by chance – building an island across time. Again, there will be recordings in sound, poetry and line all reported in a daily blog at https://martinpeccles.com . Todays is going up soon … I hope they provide some enjoyment.
Stay safe,
Following on the placing of the sound piece into radio aporee, I have now got the text, in book form, into a remotely, socially distanced, shareable form … for a slow reading experience.
Having edited the text and prepared the book (a 250 cm concertina fold) I have been waiting the opportunity to return to the place I walked to take the photographs of the book (the first time that I have been able to do this as previously the sites of my walking and writing have been remote and visited on one off occasions). It is interesting to create a visual image of something that is intended to be negotiated in a direct and physical way – I have to make a number of decisions on behalf of the reader and the intimacy of holding and reading the book is diminished – so, a (very) different work.
As an aside, it is interesting to reflect that I did the walks just before the March lockdown and am posting this just before the November one …
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