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Tag: shadows

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 30, 2020November 29, 2024

incredible shapes

A passage from The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd

Categories: This is Not yesterday, Time passes, Two culturesTags: Nan Shepherd, Peter Scott-Gordon, Quarry Wood, reading, shadows, shapes
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 30, 2020November 29, 2024

Omphalos films

[The  above quote “Shapes, sounds, the energies and acuteness of life,” is from The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd]

Categories: Two culturesTags: Nan Shepherd, Peter Scott-Gordon, Quarry Wood, reading, shadows, shapes
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 9, 2020November 30, 2024

Very old tonight

As a wee boy I was taken by my Granny to a theatre in Edinburgh to see a production of ‘Peter Pan’. Since then I have been fascinated with shadows. … Continue reading Very old tonight

Categories: Ageing, Family history, Omphalos filmsTags: creativity, J M Barrie, Omphalos films, Peter Pan, Peter Scott-Gordon, Rebel antiquary, shadows, tombstone, visual arts
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 30, 2020November 30, 2024

Another way of telling

This is a quote by John Berger from ‘Understanding a photograph’. I like to think that Berger would have appreciated my approach to making films.

Categories: Two culturesTags: John Berger, Photography, shadows, words
By Hole Ousia Posted on November 30, 2019December 2, 2024

tree shadows

Low winter sunlight casts tree shadows onto the gable of our house.

Categories: Bridge of Allan, gardensTags: Mossgrove, Peter + Sian's garden, shadows
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 31, 2019December 3, 2024

Have I told you?

I can be forgetful.

Categories: PoemsTags: light, memory, shadows
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 1, 2019December 4, 2024

Two shadows in conversation

This is a short film about my visit to meet with Henry Home (Lord Kames) on the 1st January 2019. Henry Home was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. … Continue reading Two shadows in conversation

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, ScotlandTags: Blair Drummond, Hale Bopp, Henry Gordon, Lord Kames, Monument, Omphalos films, shadows, Stirlingshire
By Hole Ousia Posted on November 18, 2018December 5, 2024

S H A D O W S

This post is based on a feature in today’s Scottish Life about Dr Robert Blomfield.   

Categories: Folk worth talking about, Scotland, Two culturesTags: Edinburgh, exhibition, folk worth talking about, Lad o' pairts, Photography, shadows, University of Edinburgh

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