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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 23, 2025July 23, 2025

Old World

Inspired by a review of ‘Old World‘, a collection of poems by Robert Crawford.

Categories: Progress hardly broke its stride, This is Not yesterday, Time passes, Two culturesTags: poetry, poets, Scotland, transitional objects, two cultures
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 23, 2025July 23, 2025

Writings on walls

A few photographs that I took on Saturday whilst back in Aberdeen. Footnote: A number of years ago I made a short film about Kelly’s Cats [that surmount the iron … Continue reading Writings on walls

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passes, Two culturesTags: Aberdeen, cats, graffiti, suicidality, suicide, Suicide prevention, two cultures
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 16, 2025

Living Art

One of my recent poems [written at Corrymuckloch].

Categories: Poems, Two culturesTags: Peter's poems, strathbraan, two cultures
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 15, 2025July 15, 2025

the garden moved in the breeze

To play “the garden moved in the breeze” please click here. Music Credit: ‘Idiot’ by Lloyd Cole Mossgrove garden:

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: Bridge of Allan, gardener, gardens, Mossgrove, Omphalos films, Patrick Geddes, Peter + Sian's garden, two cultures, vivendo discimus
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 26, 2025June 26, 2025

Claude Glass [Black mirror]

I had not heard of the ‘black mirror‘ until the artist Karen Strang shared some of the story behind it. This is from Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier, 17 … Continue reading Claude Glass [Black mirror]

Categories: Time passes, Two culturesTags: artists, Time passes. Listen, two cultures
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 16, 2025June 16, 2025

the measureless nature of art

To play this short film please click here. Filmed at Newliston House, 30th May 2025. Song: Chambermaid by Suzanne Vega [Later with Jools Holland]  

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Edinburgh, Omphalos films, Peter + Sian, two cultures
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 13, 2025

Ian’s ideas

Ian Hamilton Finlay continues to inspire what I do.

Categories: Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passes, Two culturesTags: artists, gardener, gardens, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Little Sparta, poetry, poets, Scotland, Time passes. Listen, two cultures, two girls singing
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 13, 2025

An Eardley moment

5 June 2025:  

Categories: Family history, This is Not yesterday, Time passes, Two culturesTags: artists, cats, Joan Eardley, Mossgrove, Peter + Sian, This is not yesterday, two cultures

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