Saturday 26 October 2013

GODHVOS GOTHVOS



Riham Isaac

I have been wondering where this precious stone should be placed until finally spontaneously I found its place. Today 9th of March 2014 I went to the Dead Sea in Palestine. It was raining softly but the weather was beautiful; I sat there in the sea on top of the mud for a few hours when I realized it is time to place the stone where I was sitting. I found a suitable spot where it fits the shape of the stone completely and decided to leave it and never know what will happen to it. Will it transform into mud? Will it drift away? Or will somebody find it? This symbolic meaning of its vague destiny meant a lot to me as I am in a moment in my life where I need to control less what happens in my future. I want to let go of my fear to love and be loved. I want to let go of my fears of unpredictable and uncertain future and rather embrace these changes. I want to let the waves shape the way and surrender for whatever possibilities it will draw me to. I want to place myself there in the middle of these great opportunities that life is giving me and be it!

http://electronicintifada.net/content/taking-you-home-palestinian-walks/7623

Montale-Forse un mattino andando
Perhaps one morning walking in dry glassy air, I will turn, I will see the miracle complete: nothingness at my shoulder, the void behind me, with a drunkard’s terror. Then, as on a screen, trees houses hills will advance swiftly in familiar illusion, But it will be too late; and I will return, silently, to men who do not look back, with my secret.



Montale-Forse un mattino andando


Forse un mattino andando in un’aria di vetro, arida, rivolgendomi, vedrò compirsi il miracolo: il nulla alle mie spalle, il vuoto dietro di me, con un terrore di ubriaco.
Poi come s’uno schermo, s’accamperanno di gitto Alberi case colli per l’inganno consueto. Ma sarà troppo tardi; ed io me n’andrò zitto Tra gli uomini che non si voltano, col mio segreto.

From the submerged forest beneath St.Michaels Mount, Cornwall to high up in the Italian Alps, Emma Allegretti makes her reference to the Italian poet Montale describing intense thoughts on the nature of time and space, this was the voice that accompanied Emma's walk to such powerful and everlasting natural phenomena.
Two groups of quarries (Mont Viso and Mont Beigua, Italy) were the source of the Alpine axeheads that circulated throughout western Europe during the Neolithic. The quarries on Mont Viso (Oncino: Porco, Bulè and Milanese), discovered in 2003, have been radiocarbon-dated, and this has revealed that the exploitation of jadeites, omphacitites and eclogites at high altitude (2000—2400 m above sea level) seems to have reached its apogee in the centuries around 5000 BC. The products, in the form of small axe- and adze-heads, were distributed beyond the Alps from the beginning of the fifth millennium, a few being found as far away as the Paris Basin, 550 km from their source as the crow flies. However, it was not until the mid-fifth millennium BC that long axeheads from Mont Viso appeared in the hoards and monumental tombs of the Morbihan, 800 km from the quarries. Production continued until the beginning of the third millennium BC, but at this time the distribution of the products was less extensive, and the process of distribution operated in a different way: tools made from jadeite and eclogite are still found in the French Jura, but the extraction sites at the south-east foot of Mont Viso no longer seem to have been used. The variability in the geographical extent of the distribution at different times seems to be related to the social context of exploitation of the high-altitude quarries, which were only ever accessible for a few months each year. Bolzano is the final resting place of Otzi, the mummified 'iceman' who was found in a glacier on the Italian-Austrian border in 1991. 5300 years old and no grey hair - although he apparently suffered arthritis, worn teeth and had been mortally wounded by an arrow. There is a where the ancient one resides -  kept in a freezer. Alarms sound if the equipment malfunctions and an ER team relocates him to one of the three reserve coolers. When first discovered nobody presumed he was so old and precious. Apparently it is not uncommon for bodies of long-dead climbers to be spat out of glaciers. So Otzi was treated in a very rough and non-archaeological fashion when chipped and yanked from the ice. A jackhammer was used at one stage. It took three days before a forensic scientist spotted the bronze age axe. The rapidly thawing Otzi was snap-frozen and security stepped up to its current level.


From Tregaseal to Scilly
GASTON BACHELARD, in The Poetics of Space, invites recognition of the ways in which interior 
and imaginative landscapes, such as cupboards, houses, and forests, resonate in the 
phenomenological worlds of poets, novelists, explorers, and artists.

With my back turned away from the magnificent Carn Kenijack and the Tregaseal Stone Circle also behind me, the Gothvos Stone in the foreground leads the spectator across a verdent meadow of chemically enhanced grass, over St.Just, over the sea towards a present but invisible Isles of Scilly.
Porthenys - Mousehole.
"Famous" for christmas lighting and the Starry Gazey folk tales that fuel the winter processions and pub theatricalities there remain in Mousehole the workings of a fishing village albeit overshadowed by a partially immersed tourist industry invading the stone hearths and tidied houses rendering the pre and post Christmas holiday awash with the ghost of its former habitants.
In the microcosm crystalised particles of base minerals compress as they do elsewhere, here the Granite fountain urn between the Penzance Lido and the Yacht Inn conspire towards a scaled alignment, the Penlee Headland and the voided quarry being excavated - not for mineral extraction now but for development into property.
The Pinhole aperture in this modified lens helps to focus on the infinite detail and lack of optical distortion, theres a feeling that one is unfettered by the laws of scale or proportion, like childhood feelings of being dwarfed by the natural powers that impact on existence, like the revelatory moment when looking up into the milkyway on a clear starry night. 
The photograph above taken from the edge of a Penzance sited ornate granite fountain looking across the Gwavas Lake in the Mounts Bay to the Penlee Headland creating a montage into which a widening narrative is embedded. It is difficult to read the photograph for standardized scale and proportion, the small aperture and long exposure create a synoptic contrast, the granite dish of the fountain in the foreground looks like the rough terrain of another promontory, the plane of the water in the granite dish looks like a continuation of the seawater between the headland and the fountain. The curve of the fountain echoes the "curve" of the mounts bay. To the left of the palm tree is the Penlee Elvan Stone Quarry, a large void in the headlands natural slope. Further South lies the submerged Gear Stone - a thus far unsubstantiated source of Greenstone for ceremonial Axe heads. Latterly the quarry was the source of Elvan (greenstone) for Roadstone ballast in tarmacadam and concrete. The connections between the widely found Axe Heads and the many roads that lead out of Cornwall to everywhere else, the undocumented, mythological sea routes connecting stories - masking histories, human activities, physical and cerebral and dialogical    Film editing is an art that can be used in diverse ways. It can create sensually provocative montages; become a laboratory for experimental cinema; bring out the emotional truth in an actor's performance; create a point of view on otherwise obtuse events; guide the telling and pace of a story; create an illusion of danger where there is none; give emphasis to things that would not have otherwise been noted; and even create a vital subconscious emotional connection to the viewer, among many other possibilities.

 Towards Treen below the waterline.Stone Axe Head Stories

4 comments:

  1. found one to-day corner of Tredrea Lane and Long Lane St Erth. Want to keep it in my very precious collection which includes some Hertfordshire Pudding stones I found wrapped in newspaper in my Christmas stocking nearly 60 years ago. Thinking of something special to put in its place.

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    1. Thats great, if you want to place that stone (or a new stone I will provide) somewhere important to you, photograph or draw and describe a little or tell a story about placing it, leave it and send the words and pictures we can put it on the blog many thanks Jp

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  2. Hi Jonathan trying to contact you ! we were wondering if you would be interested in bring you draw me camera to Bath next year .. please email arran@fringeartsbath.co.uk

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    1. Arran, so sorry Ive been very busy with a stack of Gothvos stories to post - I completely overlooked your enquired but I have now emailed you!

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