An unexpected fox cub
: “At ten o’clock this morning my front door bell rang. Outside was a woman with a dog on a lead—probably heading down to the nearby park to walk the dog—and a small bundle of fur in her hands: I…”
Blogposts tagged as “Nature”
Floodland
the islands of Great Britain and Ireland at current sea level, at a 40m rise in sea level, and at a 60m rise in sea level
: “The images above are taken from flood.firetree.net and show the islands of Great Britain and Ireland at current sea level, at a 40m rise in sea level, and at a 60m rise in sea level, dramatically…”
Clayton Windmills
Photograph of field between Hassocks and Clayton, by the author
: “I’m going to be returning to talking about art and all the related stuff I usually talk about in the next few weeks, but until then I wanted to post a few pictures from another walk. In some ways…”
Devil’s Dyke and Poynings
Photograph of Devil’s Dyke, by the author
: “Yesterday Kate and I took the 77 bus from Brighton Station up to Devil’s Dyke. This bus only runs on weekends and public holidays and takes about 20 minutes to get out to Devil’s Dyke, stopping…”
Post-apocalyptic pastoral and post-industrial
Photograph by the author
: “I’ve lifted the term “post-apocalyptic pastoral” from a book review by Goodreads user Terry from Toronto who effectively seeded my reading list by citing Richard Jefferies’ After London: or,…”
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Acid Renaissance, Act II
: “I’ve been thinking lately about woods and meadows and the edges of lakes, places of importance in my own personal mythology that feed into my artwork. So far in my Acid Renaissance series these…”
Notes on re-enchantment as resistance in Deep England
Stanmer Woods, near Brighton, taken by the author
: “Yesterday I posed a question on Twitter as a short thread that I’ll reformat here for easy reading: …”
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Deep England
: “On some days, when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest, it is said that you can glimpse the mythical land of Deep England, particularly if you read the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, or the…”
England’s Dark Dreaming (Part III)
Detail from the first drawing in the series
: “I’ve now finished the first 5 of my England’s Dark Dreaming series of drawings. I wish I could show you them at their full size—one metre high—rather than the relatively small digital…”
England’s Dark Dreaming (Part II)
Detail from the first drawing in the series
: “I'm increasingly convinced that the country is temporally fractured, and we should be expecting a visit from Sapphire & Steel any time now. Everything seems to operate on skewed oneiric logic.…”
England’s Dark Dreaming
Detail from the first drawing in the series
: “A few days ago on Twitter I was thinking out loud about the film The Witch, which I watched on Saturday evening, specifically about its relationship to the theme of Folk Horror which is getting some…”
Strange fascinations
Photograph by the author
: “I have a confession to make: I don’t particularly like some of the new nature writing. Some of the old stuff bores me too. …”
Women’s voices in Folk Horror and Landscape (Part 1)
: “I’ve been going through a number of my blog posts on the subject of the Folk-Horror/Landscape thing that often gets shortened to the “English Eerie” and I noticed a distinct lack of women’s…”
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The English Eerie (slight return)
Detail of one of the author's Badb Catha photographs
: “The discussion of the Eerie continues to grow, mainly on Twitter and blogs, but also in the real world. …”
England’s eerie dreaming
Photograph by the author
: “Sometimes you read an article or blog post that sums up much of what you’ve been thinking around, and that’s good. When the article not only does this, but is also written incredibly well and goes…”
Photographs from Stanmer Great Wood
Photograph by the author
: “So we decided to go for a walk on Christmas Eve in Stanmer Great Wood, on the outskirts of Brighton, partly for exercise and some fresh air, and partly so that I could take some photographs of the…”
More about Nature and Myth
The Crow Priestess> (detail) by the author
: “In my somewhat pretentiously-titled post The present is haunted by the mythic ghost of the paleolithic wilderness a couple of weeks ago I wrote: …”
The present is haunted by the mythic ghost of the paleolithic wilderness
Photograph by the author
: “Do you ever have one of those moments where you realise that a number of seemingly disparate things you are reading, watching, or pondering are actually all connected and swirling around a central…”
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