Lines of text are like layers in the strata of sedimentary rock, sentences as conglomerates of words, letters the grains. Paragraphs are treated like fossils, literally sandwiched into the text of AC Ramsay’s C19th book about Geology.
Travelling between two places, I was enchanted by the fact of a shared underlying limestone formation between Portland and the Dalmatian coast. Started in 2017 the process has been characterised by interruptions. My writing traces the contours of an internal anxiety which is tidal, intermittent and intense. The geography is Split’s Marjan Park-Forest, a promontory of the spectacular Karst landscape. The writing is visual, fragmentary and chopped up.
Limestone WALKING
INTERRUPTIONS form this work, time’s flow severed repeatedly.
Limestone FINDING – detours / Obilazak.
FILMING – focus, blur, long sight / short sight, degeneration of vision.
limestone OOLITIC – GLASS – as corporate capitalism takes hold through grabbing so rudely the private parts of the society/city/culture/place/person, and regards only improvements to the self.
Limestone THE BEACH – THE CITY – cheap flights perform an affiction not unlike the plague
Limestone PERILOUS / POROUS
Lime DISSOLVE stone
Limestone WATER – SEA
Limestone TIME – LATENESS
Limestone SPACE – GETTING LOST
Limestone SPLIT – into parts or elements – SPLIT in two, bifurcate, go in different directions, diverge, branch.
Archive
2019 Notes of an Urban Pedestrian, Mecklenburgh Square Art, London, curated Clare Stent
Reading event.
Thanks to:
The Association KURS Marko Marulić Writers in Residence Programme, Split 2017; the British Council and Arts Council England Artists’ International Development Fund 2018 – for making the related film Plastic Water Stone.; Galerija Umjetnina; friends and colleagues in Croatia and the UK.
Abigail Robinson, Neli Ruzic, Dan Oki, Sandra Sterle, Maja Vrankic, Brank Franceschi, Neil Chapman, Spike Golding, Lulu Norman, Clare Stent, Ladies Art Group, Nick Berkeley.
Found text
Andrew Crombie Ramsay; The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain, 5th edition, 1878.