Bright and breezy day out at Zennor. Ed wanted to try Zennor Fool, this problem is over three years old so I was pleased someone wanted to try it. Initially we were a bit shocked to find that the large undercut had been knocked off in a storm, Incredible really as it is quite a…
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Granite: Convergences and Divergences seminar. Saturday, August 1, 2015.
David and Andy, who operate respectively as granite-worker and granite-climber, have developed long-term relationships with the granite outcrops of South West Cornwall. From this embedded and critical position, an exploration of form, surface, material[ity], interior and exterior will be contextualised in the seminar through a series of granitic encounters.
boulder being
I’m often moved to question what bouldering is all about and what it means. So much of my time is spent bouldering in isolation. This is when the intensity and focus becomes greatest, yet it can also makes me question why I’m engaged in such a solitary pursuit. Bowling Alley, Godrevy, Photo by Rowan Spear…
boulder being
I’m often moved to question what bouldering is all about and what it means.
madeleine eats cake
I’ve written a few times about this project specifically here between-the-see-er-and-the-visible/ I got back from the States and had a good run of getting up things, the sticking point of failure and nerves seemed to have disappeared. I’d done AWOL 7C at Tintagel the week before and on the 28th May, I turned up with little…
Tintagel/Berlin
I escaped the drudgery today and drove in spring sunshine out to Tinatgel, N Cornwall. I had a feeling that I needed a session on my own, not sure if I’d lost my ‘mojo’. The evening before I’d prepared a performance score for Rebecca to perform at The Month Of Performance Art in Berlin. I…
Colorado and Joe’s Valley Utah
I’ve been in Colorado for nearly two weeks now, not really sure where the time has gone. Snowboarding for the first time at the beginning of the trip was not such a bright idea. I’m still nursing sore intercostal muscles. Clocked up a few sessions and a look at the famous CATS gym home of…
ice floe
16th April…Somewhere over Greenland I looked out of the window and saw vast open spaces, filled with ice and water. I stared until my eyes hurt and my neck was stiff from twisting in the seat. It was sublime. I made myself scared as I thought about trying to survive in such an environment. The…
Llanberis and Ogwen
My first night in a CC climbers hut. I rationalized sometime ago that sitting in a warmish hut was a better option than crouching and squatting in a coldish van. It transpired that I was right. It is though a bit weird, alone in a mountain hut, the wind howling outside, doors creaking and banging,…
between the see-er and the visible
Early January. What does it mean to have a project? I want to call this a curve of possibility. This experience occurred on the project I was on today as I added a move to what was already an existing problem. ‘I really don’t know if I can do it. So much seems to go…
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