hands-on gardener
Quote: From the Herald, 6 January 2024 Photograph: Peter Scott-Gordon opposite Abbotsford writing in his commonplace book, Saturday 15 June 2019
being and becoming in the world
Quote: From the Herald, 6 January 2024 Photograph: Peter Scott-Gordon opposite Abbotsford writing in his commonplace book, Saturday 15 June 2019
Rachel gave me this lovely present for Father’s Day. [In collecting ideas for my short films, I have filled so many ‘commonplace books’ with marginalia, poems and scribbles . . … Continue reading O M P H A L O S notebook
This is a short film that considers the so-called “two culture” divide between the Arts and the Sciences. Behind the graph lie a million stories: To play this short film … Continue reading Behind the graph lie a million stories
The author Adam Nicolson in “Sea Room”: The poet and doctor William Carlos Williams talked of an adventure: Mukul Kesavan in “Looking through glass” Captain Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited about … Continue reading Sapere Aude
Born backwards; could sleep standing-up, lived in a world upside-down. silent as light. grafted like a Scott; found and loved Cimbrone. Stars that shine now. The doctor (under)standing on his … Continue reading Ode to Narrative