Before dawn on 21 June a group of 11 people made their way to a meadow in Wiltshire. The journey was made to found and witness the Circle in the West, a new stone momument that will comprise seven ‘circles’ in homage to Stonehenge. The dawn was clearing as Sun was about to break the flat horizon and we were all quieted by the spectacle in front of us while archaeological surveyors plotted the various angles and positions of the sunrise in relation to the centre point of the Circle. The Ox-eye daisies (the day’s eyes) unfurled and stretched in recognition of it. (more…)
Archive for the ‘enlightened’ Category
Solstice day’s eyes
Sunday, June 25th, 2006On Boundaries
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006On Boundaries is a new blog created by my friends gesta and reivers, a medievalist and a mathematical scientist, approaching life, people and the universe from their divers perspectives. If they don’t mind me saying, this will blog will challenge all sorts of rubbish that is believed by lots of unthinking or otherwise ignorant people. They are compassionate intellectuals, highly defined by their own life experiences in learning, knowledge acquisition and wisdom sharing.
Creative Commons
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Recently, photographs of mine were used for ambiguous commercial purposes without permission. They were used for a university prospectus. With universities transforming more and more into Big corporations, I am on the one hand cynical about the indiscriminate use of pretty pictures to sell university degrees as commodities, especially when the images in question bear little direct relation to what is being offered. On the other hand, I live in hope that at some point soon universities with their student body will grow out of its contractor-client relationship and return to something that resembles the shared experiencial aquisition of wisdom from student and scholar alike, with the university authorities acting more like an alma mater than Chief Executive. And so images like mine, that were made for research – to understand more about the thing that was photographed – will become symbolic of the university’s desire to attract keen scholars to the institution. But I digress.