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    ashridge



    If you would experience a landscape, you must go alone into it and sit down somewhere quietly and wait for it to come in its own good time.


    Paul Gruchow, The Necessity of Empty Places, 1988
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    meander / erasures / ashridge



    We can walk between two places and in so doing establish a link between them, bring them into a warmth of contact, like introducing two friends



    Thomas A Clark, In Praise of Walking, 2016

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    landslips / runswick bay / composites



    We were picking apart a problem in linguistic history and, as it were, examining close up the peak period of glory in the history of a language; in minuets we had traced the path which had taken it several centuries. And I was powerfully gripped by the vision of transitoriness: the way before our eyes such a complex, ancient, venerable organism, slowly built up over many generations, reaches its highest point, which already contains the germ of decay, and the whole intelligently articulated structure begins to droop, to degenerate, to totter towards its doom.



    Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game, 1943



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    meander / ashridge



    Each of us, I suspect, cherishes a particular landscape that outwardly reflects some all-too-invisible condition within.

    Its very topography gives colour, contour, dimension to otherwise inaccessible areas of inner reality. Endows them with palpable configuration.



    Gustaf Sobin, Luminous Debris, 1997



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    norfolk notebook



    "Beautiful with a hint of secrecy which haunts it, as the memory of a dark and tender sadness clouds the brilliance of a summer day."


    Lilias Rider Haggard, A Norfolk Notebook, 1946


    limited edition notebook

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    a history of sunlight / 8 hours around a cherry tree / composites



    Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things.



    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, 1929