Filling Up The Well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaktoboureko
Wick Quarry is located next to the Wick Golden Valley between Bristol and Bath.
1892 – site of the Wick Golden Valley Ochre and Oxide Works, with ochre extracted from shallow pits and underground mines in the surrounding area
[Wick Ochre was used to colour the Mall outside Buckingham Palace and was transported all around the world for use as a pigment in pottery, paper, paints and other products]
1970s – depletion of ochre supplies so the site closed 2001 – rehabilitation of the site started
Recent years – the quarry has been converted into a nature reserve and now peregrine falcons have come back year after year to rear their youg
To make the quarry a safer space and to prevent people from falling in some 3.8 million cubic metres of material are needed to reduce the gradient of the slopes.
Ochre – a mix of fine clay and iron oxide, chemically known as anhydrous iron oxide. In Wick Valley red ochre is mined but in other parts of the world yellow ochre can be found. Red ochre was extracted from shallow trenches and mines at Rock Road and was conveyed to the winding shed above the Ochre Works by ponies pulling drams along rails. It was then carried down the ochre works by gravity. The Wick Golden Valley Ochre Works was at the forefront of technology with regards to extraction and processing of the raw material.
It is one of the earliest pigments known to have been used by man.
One of the valuable features of these deposits, noted in several early accounts, was that they had been formed in roughly stratified bands and lenses, and this made exploitation easier than those deposits that occur in ‘pockets’.
- How do you extract materials efficiently?
At this time thee ochre was only being extracted from trenches, a few feet deep.
- What is the depth threshold for extraction?
In 1940, 22 tons of Red Clay were produced as a co-product.
Construction of the works – designed such that the series of adjacent buildings started part the way up the gorge slope at successively lower levels down to the floor of the gorge. The buildings provided four levels at which the processing was carried out, the initial processing being at the top level where the crude ochre was stored in bins with successive processing at lower levels. This reduces the amount of handling required and made for efficient working. The processing of different coloured materials was carried out at vertically distinct sections to avoid one material contaminating another.
An account dated 1895 describes the ochre deposits, in somewhat glowing and, to be shown by experi- ence, to be optimistic terms, as covering about 25 acres and containing that which experts have pro- nounced to be the largest deposit of red and yellow ochre in this country, and probably the world:
Ochre is the first red paint
Prehistoric people created this ochre fingerprint artwork in Chufín, a cave in western Cantabria,
Spain, about 24,000 to 20,000 years ago.
Ochre extracted by Aboriginals in Western Australia – images suggest traded songlines
Ochre on Mars – there is a reason Mars is red
Today I went to London to see Alanna and Fran at Fran's place in Peckham. Fran is an architect and interested in how spaces are occupied by the invisible or how you can investigate spaces through non-material processes (I think!).
We talked about time and what it means to us. Fran grew up in Greenwich and so time was prevalent in their lives. Time is a colonial concept from the mid 18th century. Ships used to set their time keeping watches to the chronometer [A marine chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship and employed in the determination of the ship's position by celestial navigation. It is used to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), or in the modern world its successor Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and the time at the current location found from observations of celestial bodies.
We started by doing some stretches and meditations, starting inside with our core, connecting outwards towards our skins. Then we did some writing about this experience and I noted the accumulation of gravity points within me, at my knees and feet. I noted the absence of my bladder and chest. Fran said a taxi driver once told them about the body being like the earth, with a thin crust but so much unknown going on within and without.
We had some Hawthorn tincture which was strong and tasty.
Pauline Oliveros Sonic Meditations - https://blogthehum.com/2016/09/13/pauline-oliveros-sonic-meditations-1974-the-complete-text-and-scores/
Walk so silently that your feet become ears
you are moved by the wind
We created our own scores and went to Peckham Rye to play them out. It was so windy which made for an interesting movement!!
One of Alanna's inside ones: make the sound of echos of surfaces in the room [hollow spaces / dead spaces]
Ritual listening in Islam - Listening in thee Sufi Islamic tradition
Listening with the ear of the heart [https://www.overgrownpath.com/2014/10/listening-with-ear-of-heart.html]
Sufi whirling [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi_whirling]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtD5l_AcaWk&ab_channel=UFCR
https://cultivamoscultura.com/what-we-do/residencies/
https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/41082/cca-doctoral-students-program
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1G-mbVyU5oTJ_lJHbf6hZG9PyWNw&ll=52.71058938972278%2C1.4802529149387356&z=11
wind energy museum - https://windenergymuseum.co.uk
The Forest, Source of Life: The Kelabit of Sarawak.https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/assemblage/html/8/cummings.html |
https://p-node.org/works/prototypes/analogradiorelay
https://radiojove.net/query/inventory.php
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/d-region-absorption-predictions-d-rap
https://publiclab.org/notes/sashae/06-26-2020/diy-satellite-ground-station
https://mapknitter.org/maps/the-ridge/edit
https://spectralworkbench.org/
https://tracesofnitrate.org/
https://tsoeg.org/about/
https://onlinetonegenerator.com/frequency-sweep-generator.html
https://map.pirateradiomap.com/#
https://bridgethayden.bandcamp.com/track/untitled
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/assemblage/html/7/thomas.html -
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/assemblage/html/7/clark.html -
http://www.heritagepaths.co.uk/mapsearch.php?path=1#zoom=16.099999999999998&lat=55.9017&lon=-2.5721
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.HistoricEnvironmentScotland.DigitalDocumentation&hl=en_GB&gl=US
https://www.workaway.info/en/host/612554819273
https://strelkamag.com/en/article/architecture-in-global-socialism
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/owen-hatherley
https://www.davidnarro.co.uk/careers/
https://www.spab.org.uk/sites/default/files/images/MainSociety/Learning/Scholarship-InfoPack-20210721.pdf
https://sghet.com/project/the-pollok-free-state-and-its-legacy/
http://giventothepeople.org/media/pollokfreestate.pdf
https://ihbconline.co.uk/context/168/22/index.html
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275923988_Smallholder_Farmers_Local_Knowledge_on_Opportunities_and_Constraints_to_Sustainable_Intensification_of_Crop-Livestock-Trees_Mixed_Systems_in_Lemo_Woreda_SNNPR_Region_Ethiopian_Highlands
3.1 Participatory Community Resource Mapping Upper Gana Kebele: During focus groups, farmers from the lower and the upper catchments were requested to draw resource maps of the entire kebele. This exercise was to allow farmers to map their territories and indicate which places and which resources and assets were used for which purposes.
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/3/90/htm
The Whale in the Cape Verde Islands: Seascapes as a Cultural Construction from the Viewpoint of History, Literature, Local Art and Heritage
Cultural constructions of landscapes, space and environments, and of people’s relationship with nature, have in the Cape Verde Islands a perspective of their own and might have been mediated by the whale. To address perceptions about these marine mammals, historical sources, literature, art, memory and heritage were considered. Whaling influenced history and diaspora and is reflected in literary productions. Remains of whales are found in museums and used as decorative pieces and local art. We found the Cape Verdean seascapes as being culturally and naturally constructed and the whale occupies a true ‘place’ of convergence.
meadow pippets in moorlands
reed warblers in fenlands (cuckoo lays green eggs to match reed warblers)
dunnocks in woodlands and farmlands and robins and wrens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_Forest
Białowieża Forest[a] is a forest on the border between Belarus and Poland. It is one of the last and largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain. The forest is home to 800 European bison, Europe's heaviest land animal.[2] UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme designated the Polish Biosphere Reserve Białowieża in 1976[3] and the Belarusian Biosphere Reserve Belovezhskaya Puschcha in 1993.
https://www.agosto-foundation.org/map-of-perpedes
http://casalataprojecto.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR0SMeknUvmi3XTbCoRMp_jspT8dvej8e6NS4Zho60mIoLPz2n6Aopl9Lec
https://laraplacidoarq.wix.com/lparq/acerca
http://songes.be/monde-commun/
https://en.projetoimpact.org/emconcreto
https://masteremergencyarchitecture.uic.es/2016/09/19/21-free-landmark-books-about-cities-every-architect-should-read/?fbclid=IwAR3va2ElWE0MIulbPXOZb9QbREZCiiE61OpOjYk0XygLm0D1tGTxmVksumk
Marshall Island Stick Charts
