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Tag archives: Scotland

Snow Chanting

Walking in Glasgow in the beautiful soft snow chanting the short Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo Sutra 💚❄️ Please join me and friends from the Glasgow Zen Group on Sunday 7th of March @12.30pm UTC+0 …

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18 February, 202118 February, 2021Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: Buddhism, Chanting, Glasgow Zen Group, Scotland, Soto Zen

Vista painting and punky rocks at Traprain Law

It was peaceful working with artist Margaret Kerr (please have a look at her beautiful and mesmerizing work: @megkerr245 on Instagram) in East Lothian – Margaret kindly invited me over …

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16 September, 202016 December, 2020Posted inArt activitiesTags: drawing & painting, photography, Scotland

Ben Ledi – pulsating mountain

temporal voids of cerulean blue – ice holes, pulsating – falling apart rapidly plummeting

28 January, 201528 July, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: Poetry, Scotland, walking

unravelling – snap shots, walking and cycling, through scottish cityscapes

30 October, 20142 August, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: cycling, photography, Scotland, urban cityscape

Cobalt Install (Orkney, Scotland) Part 2 – Square

10 July, 20142 August, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: abstract, photography, Scotland, Sculpture & Installation

Cobalt Install (Orkney, Scotland) Part 1 – Horizontal

5 July, 20143 August, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: Land art, photography, Scotland, Sculpture & Installation

Hovering on above Caithness (Northern Scotland – Orkney)

arctic skuas, guillemots and black backs, probing – swaying – with low and high motion intersplicing retrieving coordinates – rangag, ruard glas mheall liath, coir a’ghiubhsachain skaill, point of hellia …

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29 June, 20142 August, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: photography, Poetry, Scotland

Becoming transparent, movement underfoot (Northern Scotland – Orkney)

texture of a rockface perhaps, all golden, scratched fissures – present and distant becoming transparent borrowed scenery fading now movement underfoot – methods and signals, all interweaving

29 June, 20142 August, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: photography, Poetry, Scotland

Moor Shards Installation (Orkney, Scotland)

15 June, 20143 August, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: Land art, mountains and rivers, Scotland, Sculpture & Installation, walking

Drawing, poetry and camping at mountain altitude

MOUNTAIN SPECTRE WHITE WING BLACK CAIRN Loafing around up on the Cairngorm plateau Has many advantages – You can loiter in peace with the deep blue sky, Surrounded by tiny …

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11 August, 20132 August, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: drawing & painting, mountains and rivers, Poetry, Scotland

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