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Tag: light

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 18, 2021November 26, 2024

LIGHT #2

Sun shadows on our living room wall [the old glass in our windows has bubbles and all kinds of beautiful imperfections]

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family historyTags: Bridge of Allan, light, Mossgrove
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 18, 2021November 26, 2024

LIGHT #1

Sun shadows on our living room wall [the old glass in our windows has bubbles and all kinds of beautiful imperfections]

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family historyTags: Bridge of Allan, light, Mossgrove
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 14, 2021November 27, 2024

Together we are an endless conversation

Filmed at Haughhead, Scottish Borders. Late Autumn 2020. This film is for Sian. Together we are an endless conversation: To play this short film please click here or on the … Continue reading Together we are an endless conversation

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, This is Not yesterdayTags: Kelso, light, Omphalos films, Peter + Sian, ruins, Scottish Borders
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 8, 2020November 28, 2024

Playfair brought light

The architect William Henry Playfair brought light to specimens in jars. More than two hundred years later so did Kathleen Jamie in her book FINDINGS. I was born in Edinburgh … Continue reading Playfair brought light

Categories: Architecture, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Scotland, Two culturesTags: Edinburgh, Kathleen Jamie, light, reading, Surgeon's Hall, William Henry Playfair
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 2, 2020November 28, 2024

Playfair

In the Scotsman of last week I read that the University of Edinburgh has made it’s archive open to all [as a work in progress]: I have found myself getting … Continue reading Playfair

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Scotland, Two culturesTags: archive, Edinburgh, light, Omphalos films, reading, Surgeon's Hall, University of Edinburgh, William Henry Playfair
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 26, 2020December 1, 2024

the light always comes back

is a small island which takes its name from one of the saints bearing the Irish name Finan. It is situated about 200m from both the N and S banks … Continue reading the light always comes back

Categories: Omphalos films, ScotlandTags: child in his eyes, eyes, islands, light, Omphalos films, Rachel, Scottish Highlands, seeing
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 18, 2020December 1, 2024

LUX

There are a number of historic ‘Hallelujah Stones’ in Scotland. This is an artistic representation of one of these stones. The Latin translates as: Please note: I have researched the … Continue reading LUX

Categories: ScotlandTags: light, Strathearn
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 24, 2019December 2, 2024

herring and silk: loss, light

I was very fortunate to have been commissioned by Alexander McCall Smith to make short films of two of the songs from ‘These are our Hands’. One of those films … Continue reading herring and silk: loss, light

Categories: Scotland, Two culturesTags: Alexander McCall Smith, James Ross, light, Peter Scott-Gordon, Silver Darlings, The Rings of Saturn, W G Sebald

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