Henri Lachambre’s balloon factory

These balloons went from here to here...

Transplant

The Academy

"To us ... the word 'Academy' has come to mean an institution of learning, a learned society, or at least a place of theoretical ('academic') education. In ancient Athens, the Academy was first and foremost a public park dominated by its gymnasium, and the connection between it and Plato's school was only one of the numerous historical reminiscences in an area rich in history." 

J Glucker, Antiochus and the Late Academy (Göttingen, 1978)

Monotropa uniflora

Work Experience

For the next month or so I'm doing a bit of work experience at a florist's.

Mariano García Cruz

Vasa Sculptures

Július Koller

Kwangho Lee

RBGE: CPH

Last month I took the Certificate in Practical Horticulture course at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinbugh.

Mariano García Cruz

Pruning

Roberto Burle Marx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Burle_Marx

The Deep Field

The Deep Field - an image assembled from 342 separate exposures taken by Hubble over 10 consecutive days in December, 1995.

'Golden Eye' - an essay about looking at things that are really far away and the importance of this image.
Read it here http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/golden-eye

"Gazing at the Deep Field is like mainlining the whole of time through the optic nerve, like counting by fingertip the tree rings of the universe."

Running

For the duration of this residency I aim to go for a run every day. Bishopbriggs is a suburb to the north of Glasgow, and the perfect landscape for running around and looking at gardens. It's a monoblock wonderland.

I'm interested in running for various reasons including the simplicity and repetition of it and it's a good time to think/not think. I enjoy reading and watching documentaries about running so now is the time to actually commit to actually doing it. I'll be using Map My Run because when you log your runs you can trace it on maps and it makes bar graphs. I could take runs that spell out words like Peter Stillman in 'The New York Trilogy'.

I would also like to find out more about Plato's academy, where the three disciplines were were philosophy, mathematics and gymnastics. I'd also like to get really good at the hula-hoop.

Valentina Tereshkova: First woman in space, 1963

To explore the adjacent possible...

Summer House