Posts Tagged ‘Ruskin’
A Calamitous Plague Cloud Descends
December 8, 2010
Earlier today I popped out to deposit a canary in Ford Park to gather more data. As I felt I needed the exercise I took a walk over hoad hill on my way to pick up some more wool from Loopy’s in Ulverston. Coming down off the hill into the town I immediately became aware [...]
2010 | strct | Tags: Air, Atmospheres, Cartography, Olfaction, Ruskin, Stench, WalkingComments (0)
Atmospheric Proxemics
December 8, 2010
Some notes on the broader concerns of the invisible cartographies project: There are two sides to the invisible dynamics of the landscape revealed by this project. The first presents these dynamisms as components or qualities of the landscape as an objective reality, as fluctuations that are part of the landscape itself and not simply perceived [...]
2010 | strct | Tags: Air, Atmospheres, Cartography, Ecology, gnuplot, Proxemics, Ruskin, WalkingComments (0)
Ruskin and the Nephological Medium
December 6, 2010
In carrying out research into the history of air while working on this residency, Ruskin came up a number of times, which is not surprising giving the location of the residency. I know very little of Ruskin, but have found his meteorological speculations fascinating since digging out his two lectures on The Storm Cloud of [...]
