#robert macfarlane

Jackie Morris is one of my favorite artists and I was so thrilled to see a new book by her and Robert Macfarlane.

The sun also rises, I'm buried in bones

The moon also rises, I'm sunk in the stones

The sun also rises, the story's begun

The moon also rises, licked clean by the sun

The sun also rises with tales to be told

風を綯う日々-ねじ曲げられるもの The Days of Twining Wind-Things can be bent 　 ed/50 59.5 x 45.0cm 2005年 林孝彦 Takahiko Hayashi copperplate print with chine collé( etching)

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“Something I heard an archaeologist say in Oslo about deep time returns to me: Time isn’t deep, it is always already all around us. The past ghosts us, lies all about us less as layers, more as drift. […] The problem is not that things become buried deep in strata – but that they endure, outlive us, and come back at us with a force we didn’t realise they had. […] We all carry trace fossils within us – the marks that the dead and the missed leave behind. Handwriting on an envelope; the wear on a wooden step left by footfall; the memory of a familiar gesture by someone gone, repeated so often it has worn its own groove in both air and mind: these are trace fossils too. Sometimes, in fact, all that is left behind by loss is trace – and sometimes empty volume can be easier to hold in the heart than presence itself.”

— Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey