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Friday 13 April '07 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Framed
It’s going up, the new site office for the building project at Lawson Park gets its ribs. Parkamoor is also under the builders, it’s all springy and exciting, seeds germinate and leaves open, the miracle is on us again like a slow rolling mist the transformation unfolds, or as Christopher Lloyd used to rather more rudely say ‘the snouts go shooting’.
My Villages (see blog) are staying in Coniston in a classic holiday home we rented for them, it’s a perfect mix of materials and styles, a kind of flotsam of stuff nobody would want in their own home, all there and all wrong in some way, too old, too bright, to knobbly, too woody, too low, high, fat or furry. There’s a certain consistency to it all which I‘m starting to read and find rather attractive.
Kathrin Bohem and Wapke Fenestra along with Kathrin’s son Lawrence are researching Grizedale the organization, with whom and where we work. It’s a lot of fun to have them around being funny and interested in all things village and rural. Their own work with the villages they come from and their descriptions of those communities is fascinating, very different from an English and especially lakes experience of a village community. It makes me think about how extraordinarily disjointed and complex Coniston is in terms of actually being a community. All factions pushing in differing directions and all dealing with this bizarre sycophantic body of people called visitors, all that ‘your so lucky’ etc it's bad for you.
Topics:
- add things[1]
- amphibians[1]
- architecture[2]
- Arnofini[1]
- arnold circus[1]
- being different[1]
- building[1]
- building site[1]
- celebrity[1]
- censorship[1]
- China[3]
- construction[1]
- Culture Cumbria[1]
- drystone walling[1]
- Egremont[1]
- Far West[1]
- farmer[1]
- film festivals[1]
- fungi[1]
- furness beekeepers[1]
- furniture[1]
- golf[1]
- ground source heat pump[1]
- Guest Room[1]
- handling[1]
- Happy Stacking 7[1]
- Honesty Box[1]
- Honesty Stall[1]
- Internationaler Dorfladen[1]
- July bombers[1]
- Kurt Schwitters[1]
- Langdale[1]
- Lawson Park Collection[1]
- Littoral[1]
- Liverpool[1]
- London[1]
- Malcolm Wilson Rally[1]
- Merz Barn[1]
- money[1]
- Mycology[1]
- myvillages[1]
- name[1]
- Narnia[1]
- Nina Pope[1]
- outside broadcast[1]
- overkill[1]
- Peter Hodgson[1]
- Peter Inman[1]
- Pope and Guthrie[1]
- proposal[6]
- public works[2]
- residencies[1]
- rural girl[1]
- Ruskin[1]
- self-importance[1]
- Seven Samurai[1]
- shack[1]
- skep[1]
- Slade School of Art[1]
- soil[1]
- something[1]
- song for a circus[1]
- soul music[1]
- Stuart Bastick[1]
- Sufelje[1]
- SXSW Film Festival[1]
- Texas[1]
- the Supernaturals[1]
- toads[1]
- two guys[1]
- UCL[1]
- USA[1]
- Village Kiosk[1]
- village shop[8]
- weather[1]
Months:
Our blogs:Grizedale Arts Blog, Farmyard Radio, myvillages.org
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