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Jan 181 min read
The Rubbish Tip Archive
Thinking about a 'rubbish tip archive' offers me a way to think about about materials within landscapes across time. It offers me a a...
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becgoddard
Jul 8, 20241 min read
Suspension and being held
Being held floating, like a yolk in albumen. Working with these materials I remind myself again, through these processes, that I care...
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becgoddard
Jun 6, 20242 min read
Animating
How can my use of archaeological reports to think about futures be connected to ideas I've been reading from Isabelle Stengers in...
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becgoddard
Apr 20, 20242 min read
Pollen and Molluscs.
Fazal, Hina & Ahmad, Nisar & Abbasi, Bilal. (2013). Identification, Characterization, and Palynology of High-Valued Medicinal Plants....
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becgoddard
Mar 31, 20242 min read
Liquids making pictures
Failures and one success. Yesterday I processed a film in three sections; I try three cornered leeks from my garden for a recommended...
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becgoddard
Mar 20, 20241 min read
Material media
Susan Schuppli's work explores materials as media, that is, as recorders, storing and revealing information. This is what the dust that...
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becgoddard
Mar 7, 20241 min read
Brackish waters
The brackish waters of the rhynes are in my mind; they are where salt and fresh waters combine, where mixes and exchanges occur. I think...
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becgoddard
Feb 15, 20241 min read
14 bird songs
This is slowness. While the road is different, and the diggers scrape and change the landscape behind me. I look at the light on and in...
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becgoddard
Feb 15, 20241 min read
The more I look...
the more I see. I looked again at the pinholes I made in the Cot Valley in January. I was disappointed. Not enough light, therefore...
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becgoddard
Feb 9, 20241 min read
An elephant and an oak tree.
Working slowing starts to reveal things. I'm exploring strategies of recording what I can during the exposure times of the images I am...
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becgoddard
Feb 5, 20242 min read
Slow exposure times near ditches in Avonmouth.
Making a long exposure meant I noticed things around me. I was committed to making the image and placed hope in my light readings. I...
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becgoddard
Jan 7, 20241 min read
Thinking ahead and thinking behind.
When there are spaces to imagine in; spaces allow imagination. I have been thinking about going to a nature reclaimed space that was once...
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becgoddard
Dec 19, 20231 min read
Not knowing knowing
I'm thinking about the dust from a gutter outside the skip waste recycling centres on Albert Road and how I don't know what the dust is,...
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becgoddard
Nov 20, 20231 min read
Re-ravelling
Putting together treads, lines of thinking, investigations and thoughts. In the middle of last week a big funeral for a dear friend,...
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becgoddard
Nov 7, 20231 min read
Practice makes attention
A series of writing prompts yesterday evening in my online class. A set of readings around research methodologies. I want to find a...
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becgoddard
Nov 6, 20231 min read
Photographs from above
Photography hides things; it hides details, the things outside of the frame, the time before and after the moment the shutter opens then...
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becgoddard
Nov 1, 20232 min read
Conversations with living
I’m in my room, I can hear my alarm clock ticking. My bed is warm but my feet feel cold. My ears are ringing. I hear a car door outside,...
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becgoddard
Oct 30, 20232 min read
Where is (my) slow attention?
How do I begin to think about slow attention. I am writing this at my kitchen table. Radio 4 is playing the background and there is a...
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becgoddard
Sep 18, 20231 min read
Stirring the Mud
Hurd, B. (2001) Stirring the Mud; On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. Discussing 'edge species', Hurd...
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