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This is a round up of sorts, a gathering of inspirational fragments and a snapshot of where I am in my process.
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Last August we made promises to ourselves (& each other) to do something bold. My promise was to get Widdershins out into the world, and I’ll be talking about that coming to fruition. I can’t wait to hear everyone else’s news! Won’t you come? Become a paid subscriber if you’re not already & join us!
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📚 Above is a gallery of images from the last few days.
160 hardback copies of Widdershins arrived in 11 boxes now filling my living room. This limited edition is for the backers of the Kickstarter I ran in May. I’ve chosen the archival ink & fountain pens I’ll use to sign and number them. I’ve been signing, wrapping and posting them one box at a time. This is going to take some time.
I realise I can’t keep up my schedule of writing an in depth post bi-monthly on here while I do this, so here’s a scattering of thoughts & ideas in no particular order!
The Widdershins Ebook is available now
🤯 My mind is blown by this article on Emily Dickinson’s first drafts written on the back of scraps of newspaper, a chocolate wrapper and donut recipe. She didn’t lack for paper—so is this a kind of Burroughsian cut up method? It’s thrilling to consider the contrarian way she worked her magic. The essay is here.
If you are in Orkney between now and September 26th, go see Carolyn Dixon’s masterful and profoundly moving exhibition, Torn from that Lovely Shore, at the Tankerness Museum. The show is a series of monoprints and artists books employing historical fragments, landscape and witness in ghostly layers, exposing Orkney’s relationship to the transatlantic slave trade. This is unmissable and worth coming to Orkney to see.
I’m listening to Magnetic North, a music project inspired by stories, legends and landscapes of Orkney. Magnetic North refers to Orkney’s position in relation to London corresponding to earth’s magnetic fields. (When I first landed in London over 20 years ago, I saw Orkney referred to in an old book about the islands. Since reading this, I can’t help but see this polar measurement as a personal description of my journey that’s brought me here, but that’s a topic for another post!)
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