Settle Awhile
Drystone walls and Amazonian Forests
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
Drystone walls and Amazonian Forests
WelcomeI'm an architectural photographer. On my van-life travels through the British Isles I’m building up a word and photo-hoard containing a light imbued repository of material treasure that celebrates our built heritage and contributes to a sense of place.
"Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy." Terry Pratchett
"Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter. They are places that make us feel something larger than ourselves, as though we are held in a place between worlds, beyond experience."Kerri ni Dochartaigh (Thin Places)
"The light was astonishing today, the air whitening the sunlight, the cold burnishing the blue, the light like absence of smell in the air, both bright and bleaching. There seemed to be no dapple, no interplay of shadow and light.
"We construct human realities around the things we make and build. We give them names and identities that are bound up with what they used to be, or what we wish them to be, or what we think they’re for." Richard Smyth: An Indifference of Birds.
"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us." - Thomas Brown, Religio Medici, 1643
"All art can have the power of poetic revelation about the material world - it can reveal the ensoulment of the universe." - Hugh Conway Morris
O Public Road…You express me better than I can express myselfYou shall be more to me than my poem. Song of the Open Road. Walt Whitman.
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