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James Brady’s expedition blog for ecoartscotland

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See James Brady’s blog here:   http://ecoartscotland.net/    

By James Brady
29 October 2013, 11:53am

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Carbon Cycle

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CARBON/SINK Site-specific organic drawing, North Haven pier, Fair Isle (peat and fresh water / 12” x 120”)     A musing on the ecology of the Carbon Cycle and the human intervention within it’s system: the symbiotic links between the entropy of organic matter – moorland as a carbon sink – fossil fuels – carbon... Read more ›

By James Brady
22 October 2013, 10:23am
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Microcosms: Eons, Tides and Dreams

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‘I go to the rockpool at the slack of the tide to mind me what my poetry’s for.’ –      Jen Hadfield (from the poem, Daed-traa*)           ‘The parent materials were gathered together as volcanoes poured them out in fiery streams, as waters running over the bare rocks of the continents wore... Read more ›

By James Brady
8 October 2013, 10:09am
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Bonxie and I (an encounter with Stercorarius Skua)

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  Unedited field recording. Equipment: Tascam DR-07, Sennheiser K6/ME66, Røde WS6   On this misty, late morning the cloud was low, the atmosphere thick, drizzly and heavy with moisture. Alone, I took a walk from the pier at North Haven (East side of the island), past the Bird Observatory, and up across to the boggy, windswept... Read more ›

By James Brady
27 August 2013, 5:12pm
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Stone Cut Runes…

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Thurso about 4pm Monday 19 August – a retrospective diary entry I found the museum.  I found two standing stones.  Stone cut runes.  And I found this… to watch the dawn sweep over a flat grey horizon that is a stone cut rune to put your mark on the morning’s silence that is a stone cut... Read more ›

By James Brady
27 August 2013, 10:26am
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