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train diary entry 1. 24th september 11.26.a.m.
Position: RHF ( Right Hand Forward Facing)
train leaving Lowdham
African voice on mobile becomes song with no meaning – sun on fields after a storm
reading ‘rings of Saturn’ – Sebald – ditches overflowing
old quarry full – grass cut neatly
feeling of release in open country – away from ‘chatter’
focus – sky, fields, trees – open book
Sebald in hospital – window – Thomas Browne ? Anatomy of Melancholy – Iain Sinclair
Very similar to Marias (All Souls) in feel – novel /philosopher
page loose – falling apart – Thurgarton - rights of man – self-portrait
Urn-archeaology –Didcot Tescos dug…FISKERTON Why?
the power station – an impression – Newark Museum
water
Newark Castle – - travellers in – orange trees – old lorries — deserted plots
Chaps I & II
LUNEBERG HEATH – 1950’s – dogfight bones
Newark – —-> flatter / pylons sand and gravel workings like Thames V
Dad’s map in his mind / horses /un-manned level crossings / rooks / silver birches
COLLINGHAM disused railway building / cars waiting for owners (rail crash memory)
Artists’ on train ‘chatter’ – Netherlands allowance – obsessive greed
Art as a social bandage – regeneration fever – horse boxes on the hill
pesticides and starvation —> Sebald? Outsider looking in.
‘poor’ wet fields / the geology? map? Brookes maps -layers in plan chests / map cases PLAN CHEST
‘I don’t get assessed on art – I get assessed on ‘art practice” ‘Scary’
plastic sheeting in tree SWINDERBY
‘the third area’ where has it lead? —-> Station on a line to where?
switching point (limits) train map as ‘practice’ county
Market Garden Battle of Britain Flight NO ANIMALS – livestock – VIRUS
Operation Market Garden POOR SOIL – STONEY
FIELD OF DEAD MILKFLOATS
bullrushes
the train diary
Every journey to Lincoln is annotated in a sketchbook ( detail above). Informed by a reading of a single chapter from W.G.Sebald’s book ‘Rings of Saturn’. Thoughts and observations are written down as they occur with no linear logic.
