visual research III

visual research II

visual research I

It is the story of the falling rain to turn into a leaf and fall again

thoughts on puppetry

in search of wales

The memories that live up in the black Valhalla of the Welsh hills are memories strange to the English mind.  They are of kings who were half poets, and poets who were half kings; of queer things that happened in the dark, and in the half light; of swords and struggle and failure in an age so remote that it ended when our history began.  

H.V. Morton

Dreaming the Night Field

Michael Harvey | Stacey Blythe

Arthur and Welsh Mythology Exhibit at National Library of Wales

The White Book of Rhydderch

“No grave for Arthur, because he did not die.  He lives where we have need of him”

camping in the shadow of Harlech Castle

hike on Pembrokshire Coastal Path

Introductory Welsh Language Course at Nant Gwythern

Snowdonia

Cardiff St. Fagan's (6.30.17)

St. Govan's Chapel (6.27.17)

Tenby (6.25.17)

20. On Andy Goldsworthy and theatrical structure (from Sarah Ruhl’s 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write)

I am inspired by Andy Goldsworthy’s outdoor sculptures. Like a playwright, he spends his time structuring decay. That is to say, he is documenting structure as it moves through time. In his case, the natural world destroys the form; whereas in the theater, time itself and the audience’s movement through time destroys the form. Structure implies subtraction or repression; without the taking away or the hiding, there is everything: formlessness. Goldsworthy points out how already structured nature is by using subtraction and repetition. He complicates what is natural and what is artifice by pointing to already existing natural forms. Different plays have different shapes--spheres, rectangles, wavy lines, and of course the ever-discussed and ubiquitous arc. Aristotle thought form was natural. How will we find our own natural forms in the sense of the elemental and when should we be suspicious of the world “natural."