On Wordsworth and wake

On Wordsworth and wake

After spending time at the Wordsworth Museum and reading more about Wordsworth, I wrote down some thoughts which resonated with the development of Breath Water Marks (which are exhibited at the museum).     ‘It was also beautiful on the calm, hot...
Oak leaf mobile for jaggedart anniversary exhibition

Oak leaf mobile for jaggedart anniversary exhibition

For a special exhibition to celebrate twenty-one years of jaggedart, each gallery artist was invited to present a work which fits within 40cm x 40cm. We made an oak leaf mobile in oak wood and with pyrography, have used part of a quote by Sartre about the mobiles of...
Breathturn by Ian Duhig

Breathturn by Ian Duhig

Essay by Ian Duhig for an international anthology of Ekphrastic poetry (where poems are accompanied by a prose commentary)   Breath Water Marks “To most people who look at a mobile, it’s no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few,...
Wordsworth Museum

Wordsworth Museum

I went to the Wordsworth Museum for a meeting to explore the possibility of hanging the new mobiles inspired by wake in the ‘pause space’. Afterwards, I spent time exploring the Museum, Dove Cottage, the garden, orchard and the woodlands.
Ilkley Fountain Competition

Ilkley Fountain Competition

I knew nothing about moss until a couple of years ago when I read Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It’s a book which is both poetic and informative about the unique and transformative properties of moss, and since reading it the mosses on our local moorland have...
Other wake poems

Other wake poems

A few other poems which have inspired me while thinking about the concept of wake....