☀️ Start here: About Eustace
“In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." “Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.”
Eustace
The Eustace Collection helps provide nuanced counter-narratives to threats to our historic environment whether it be the mightiest cathedral or the collective thumbprint on an ancient latch. Updated regularly, the aim of Eustace is to build up a resource to help others. They are accessible to everybody. It is an advocacy toolkit for making the invisible value of place visible.
18 posts
☀️ Eustace Collection: Connected Consciousness.
Here, I explore how these carvings form a vast network of meaning, linking past and present - thus contributing to significance.
☀️ Eustace Collection: Looking through Olive's Eyes.
Inspired by Edwin Smith’s photography and Olive Cook’s letters, uncover hidden narratives and historical layers that shape this town’s heritage, revealing new ways of seeing place, art, and memory.
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Cultural Seed Bank
Buzzing with this new perspective, I set about photographing elements like this in the hope of sharing the singularity of the occasion with others, and with the wish of disseminating the pattern like a wind blown daisy seed - a bit of heritage grafting with the aid of my camera.
☀️ Eustace Collection: Pie and Pudding People
We must cherish and protect these places as if our lives were etched upon it.
☀️ Eustace Collection: People Like Us
Churches remind us of how normal people like us relentlessly hacked, carved, forged, daubed, etched and wove our way out of the unremitting labyrinth of threats to the human condition.
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Face
There is a face peeping out from behind the flaking limewash.
☀️ Eustace Collection: Hadrian's Wall
As I cycle along the wall, I take in each stone as ballast.
☀️ Eustace Collection: Wells Cathedral Light Refinery
Across a building extruded from the Triassic and Jurassic this isn't just a parable of faith, but also the story of the cosmos itself and our part in it.