Wild Uplands
Looking back at my 2025 photos reminded me of the visit to the Wild Uplands art exhibition at the Penistone Hill Country Park near Haworth.
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Does Bradford sing?
Each part of installation reminded me of a factory where the workers had just left for some unexplained reason. Leaving the cloak behind and the newsprint instructions for the work they were doing. The mysterious unfinished job incomplete all that remained was their ghostly image next their workstation.
Land and Brass
Sophie Cooper’s composition Echoes of Reclamation, performed by the Milnrow Brass Band. Recycled speakers and brass band instruments were repurposed to create a bespoke sound system, splitting the instrumental sounds across different channels.
The final chapter in the DumbWaiters cassette archives
Over 30 years had elapsed I had last met up with Jim and it was tragic loss of our mutual friend and band member Brian that brought us together to reunited to bring back his memory and the music we had created. It transpired as KTV3 progressed an increasing amount of construction and reconstruction was needed, so that the final product became a composite of old and new.
Henry Moore’s father wanted his sons to be educated
Henry Moore’s dad believed education was route for his sons to avoid working down the local coal mine. Henry Moore, originally a lad from Castleford, made these figures long before the YSP was established in 1977 and yet they fit like a made to measure suit, in the landscape, echoing the gentle hills and slopes of the surrounding area.
A believer of possibility
Brian was connoisseur of the science fiction genre loved ideas and believer of possibility. Distant events over time and space appear entangled via a single thought.
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