JUNE 2008. WEATHER STATION DEVELOPING.
The Story so far:
The work on The Beach Garden at Baycliff (which is the armature for The Weather Station) has been proceeding intermittantly but steadily since May 2007. Visitors such as Charlie Carter (public art artist ), Chris May (Creative Partnerships NE.LANCS.) and Strangeworks (Hackney) have made big contributions. Read their comments on our programme page. This work is also recorded in a blog which is erased from the web now but printed as a hard copy. if you are interested do write to us with your postal address and we will send you a copy by snail mail.
On this West side of Morecambe Bay, next to our Beach House, we have started to colonise a steep cliff and a smitch of land. Once overrun with nettles and brambles we are creating a terraced rockery , potential fernery, and small sculpture garden.... a peaceful nexus...., an escape from the mundane.... and a place to measure meteorological and pyschic weather.
10 December. 2007
Weather Station continues steadily.The armature is setting down with bags of undescended ideas. Johnny Magee and Simon Zimmerman from The Arts Council visited
Johnny Magee is editing a film about the beach and studio.October 2007. Charlie Carter returned with an excellent book of photographs illustrating the work so far. We plan to publish some of these plus Johnny Magee's fim.Levels and terraces continue to grow in preparation for small scale weathervanes and mobiles
7 January. 2008
Flooding continues and the path we made down the cliff has become an initermittant waterfall!
The beginnings of the terrace.. Bank stabilisation needed.
Enter The Gabions, wire cages filled with stones after much labour from Strangeworks.
Onceoverr
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Gabions in position. 10 August Thank you Strangeworks
NEW ICON FOR AN UNKNOWN FAITH
14 December 2007.
This image is a photograph by Charlie Carter of cat bones selected by Reuben our seven year old grandson. A cat died in our garage and we cremated it on a beach fire. The next day Reuben discovered the bones in the warm ashes and arranged them on a dead log in the form of a dinosaur.
June 2008.
All successfully dried out and bounding with growth. New plantings of cadoons, and sea kale in new bed. Serious weeding of main foundations and more clearing of new brambles and nettles.Spartina grass on sea edge rampant and in full flower. Erection of temporary gazebo and temporary weathervanes for first gathering of colleagues from Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Art with a successful barbeque in rain and wind. Networking begins with Lancaster University Departments especially Geography and Sociology.
Images for the depressed.
Three new drypoints in production.
Watch this space.....
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Excellent New Book by Baz Kershaw. "Theatre Ecology" Published by Cambridge University `Press.``Environments and Performance Events. Good on the the addiction of performance.