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Murdo Eason

@fifepsy.bsky.social
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walking / writing / between world & word images / text / fragments / assemblage Fife, Scotland (mostly) murdoeason.com

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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
layer up the time of day in striated wave light & shadow
Calm water with small parallel horizontal layers of incoming waves. Light is bright with part of the foreground split by shadow.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
who knows how curlew measures the arc-line of time? ebb tides & edges? #poetry #haiku #curlew #time
A solitary curlew with raised, curved beak walks across the foreshore at low tide. Sand and mud is peppered with dark clumps of rocks and seaweed.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
back to following the desire lines
Cracks in an asphalt pavement with water ingress creating a network of dark interlocking lines
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Rosmarie Waldrop #smallpoemsunday
poem by Rosmarie Waldrop.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Tom Raworth #smallpoemsunday
Tom Raworth’s poem ‘Lined Paper
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
out of water, elemental painting #foundart
Detail of the hull of an abandoned small boat, out of water, slowly being eroded by the elements. The original painted layered surface, now an abstract painting in blue, red, black & white.Detail of the hull of an abandoned small boat, out of water, slowly being eroded by the elements. The original painted layered surface, now an abstract painting in blue, red, black & white.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
tidewrack trio / lines of ebb and flow #coastal
Small shingle beach with three lines of tidewrack, Fife
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
sink and fizzle out the day yet, a small stretch of the light #solstice
Flare of the setting sun, on the shortest day,  over West Lothian.  Dark water of the River Forth in the foreground.Final flare of the setting sun, on the shortest day. Smears of cloud lit by pink and orange. Dark water of the River Forth in the foreground. Three cranes at Crombie Point on the right.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
back to the essence of the line
Detail of a denuded blackthorn hedge reduced to a series of black lines.Denuded blackthorn hedge reduced to a series of black lines.
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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Did you know that what's likely Gordon Matta-Clark's only surviving public work is a small cage for a rosebush in the East Village? Very happy to report on its revival as my last story for the year www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/12/20/g...
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Gordon Matta-Clark’s caged rosebush, hidden in plain sight for 52 years, is marked and restored
Unlike his best-known, monumental and ephemeral works, the artist’s newly restored Rosebush is firmly embedded in the environment
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
transition state(s)
A light dusting of residual frost, on a piece of sodden driftwood, thrown on land by the tide.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
gone to earth: light tracings of meteor showers across the night sky; deep time skyline above the edge of the frozen loch (railway station platform)
Edge of the platform at Inverkeithing railway station. Contrasting slabs of dark & light coloured stone.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
fallen / found or the festive morning after
Sprig of cotoneaster, with red berries, lying on top of a moss-furred surface.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
arrival & departures: the tidal watcher welcomes the waves
A seaweed covered post at low tide resembles a black-cloaked standing figure watching the waves coming in to the harbour. Three smaller posts remain just above the waterline but will soon be submerged. Silt and tidewrack covered rocks are in the foreground.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Detail from Barry Le Va ‘In a State of Flux’ exhibition at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh.
Four sheets of shattered glass, topped with one whole sheet on the gallery floor. The outcome of a series of actions creating a web of lines in the altered material.  Piece is called ‘On Center Shatter-or-Shatterscatter
(Within the Series of Layered
Pattern Acts), 1968-71’.
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Beckett at Reading @beckettreading.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
University of Reading Samuel Beckett Creative Fellows: Video recording of a reading and Q & A by Claire-Louise Bennett and Simon Okotie. March 2024. research.reading.ac.uk/beckett/samu...
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
form glow sun on stone
Bright winter sunlight hitting exterior stonework on a tenement building, the New Town, Edinburgh.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
three peak form reverberation ivy threads a space
Top of grey/white triangular point fence on railway station platform. A building in the background echoes the form. A strand of ivy threads through the space between.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
portals appearing in strange places … no sign of Cerberus
White external door, with two narrow panes of glass & letterbox, washed up and lying flat on sand of the Fife foreshore.
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Kory Reeder @koryreeder.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I’m really excited to share that I’ve been working on a project with Antoine Beuger to bring the Edition Wandelweiser Records collection to Bandcamp! 10 albums coming the last Friday of every month starting in January! editionwandelweiserrecords.bandcamp.com
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Music | Edition Wandelweiser GmbH
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
a landscape... www.juliejohnstone.com/works/landsc...
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
eye of the storm
Light diffused by a night light in a small glass holder.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
heron takes a trip
A heron moving purposefully along the shoreline, silhouetted against a setting sun spilling silver, gold & blue over the surface of the River Forth. Tidewrack draped rocks are in the foreground.
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VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"What I carry with me is more like a comedown, a blanket around my thoughts or a perceptual filter. I remember it like I would remember a fever, or the pandemic: a zone outside of time that cannot be brought realistically back to mind." On "For Philip Guston" van-magazine.com/mag/feldman-...
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I Saw Morton Feldman’s “For Philip Guston” Twice in One Month
Tim Rutherford-Johnson attends two performances of Morton Feldman's mammoth "For Philip Guston" in the space of a month
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Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New writing - a review of Feldman and Beckett at QEH last week van-magazine.com/mag/morton-f...
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Event
A review of London Sinfonietta's performance of “Quad I + II” by Samuel Beckett, and “For Samuel Beckett” by Morton Feldman
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
pulse of embers, the slow exhale
Glowing red embers as a fire cools down.
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Delighted that Fieldwalking - Groundlines is Shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2024 for walking art. Am enjoying reading about all the selected Walking Arts pieces @walklistencreate.org Congratulations to all on the list #WalkingArtists #WalkingArt #WalkDraw walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece...
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Fieldwalking – Groundlines
72 Groundlines drawings inspired by walking the landscape where a collection of flints have been found.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Dark ambient afternoon, tar water, light rain, worn as mist. A fracture of light heralds the arc, the spill over, the dissolve to come.
Tar-like choppy water of the Firth of Forth with dark rain clouds above. An arc of white light is breaking through.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A fitting end to Deep Time: Basquiat & Cage 84.24 last night with an explosive performance by The Rolling Calf & an improvised, manipulated conversation between Basquiat & Cage from turntablist NikNak. In addition to Counterflows & Tectonics, a great addition to new music in Scotland.
Programme notes for the last night of Deep Time: Basquiat & Cage festival at Fruitmarket Edinburgh.
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Lee Ufan Relatum—dissonance (2009/11) Steel and stones www.guggenheim.org/artwork/27376
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Lee Ufan | Relatum—dissonance | The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation
Learn about this artwork by Lee Ufan in the Guggenheim's Collection Online.
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I wrote the accompanying words for this beautiful book of photographs. Frank Cottrell-Boyce wrote the foreword. Proceeds go to Liverpool’s Paper Cup Project for homeless people. Details below. @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
#Winter, 1955 by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami
Artwork featuring a bird in silhouette flying in the centre foreground and a group of winter bare trees to the top left all against a bleak greenish cream background
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
a floating world beneath the earth ( concrete wall abstract)
Concrete wall of an underpass, pitted and discoloured. A dark line extends across the top and underneath, various abstract forms ‘float’ in space.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
pipe dream of the contemplative corvid awaiting snow
Crow sitting on a sea wall, looking out over the River Forth.   West Lothian is partly snow covered on the other side. A large pipe extends over the beach into the river and disappears under water.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The shadow of Anton Lukoszevieze, on the wall of Fruitmarket Gallery’s warehouse space, following Apartment House’s performance last night. Works by/inspired by Cage, Ben Patterson, Branca’s Theoretical Girls, Wojnarowicz & Basquiat. We’re lucky to have this challenging, playful & inventive ensemble
A shadow encroaching on a wall of discoloured concrete on which the words Et in Arcadia have been set.
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Laurence Mitchell @eastofelveden.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I am very pleased to announce that my new book Flint Country: A Stone Journey will be published by Saraband this coming spring. saraband.net/sb-title/fli...
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Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy anniversary to Obsolete Sounds! 💿📻 Today is the 2️⃣ nd birthday of our project reimagining the world's obsolete and disappearing sounds, from typewriters and modems to traditional music practices and cracking glacier ice: Listen to the full project: citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sou...
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Obsolete Sounds
The world's biggest collection of obsolete sounds and disappearing sounds - remixed and reimagined by artists all over the world.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Wandered past an alien spaceship today.
What looks like a small Tardis covered in a black and yellow check pattern, mounted on a metal tripod with an antenna protruding from the top. A large empty field in the background with a mound of earth in foreground. Apparently the device is a perimeter intrusion detector that will shout at you if you get too close.
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Apartment House @apartment-house.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This thursday, Edinburgh, Fruitmarket Gallery, Apartment House, Deep Time - Basquiat/Cage 6.30 The boss talks to Kate Molleson. 7.30 We play music. www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/deep-t...
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Deep Time: Basquiat & Cage 8424 Apartment House - Fruitmarket
Thursday 28.11.24. 6.30–10.30pm. Free or pay what you can (suggested donation £10). Click here to book tickets for Thursday 28.11.24 By donating £25 you can enjoy all four nights of […]
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
resting selkie / a longing for the sea
On the Fife coast, a long trail/tail of tidewrack snagged on a wooden post encased in a large concrete block. Some yellow lichen formations on the lip of the block. In the distance a coastal area at low tide: rock formations, sand, pooled water.
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Louth Contemporary Music Society @eamonnquinn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
🎵 @theguardian praised Louth Contemporary Music Society for our "rogue charm" in programming. Experience that bold spirit at Echoes in Dundalk, June 13-14, 2025! Get your tickets now: www.eventbrite.ie/.../echoes-1...
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
"there are days when it is enough to walk through a stony pasture." — Jürg Frey
Rocky coastline at low tide.  Last vestiges of recent snowfall on striated rock formations. River Forth and coastline of West Lothian in the distance.Rocky coastline at low tide.  Small rocks and rivulets of water scatter the foreshore. Under a snow filled sky, the River Forth and coastline of West Lothian in the distance.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“a breeze, light and shadow, spaces of color, a glimpse, a landscape” — Jürg Frey
cover of Jürg Frey’s ‘ephemeral constructions’ on wandelweiser editions.
Notes from jürg frey, sketchbook, 2007. Inside of ‘ephemeral constructions’.
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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
poem-hive seeks new home. PM me with an offer. It's in Edinburgh.
A traditional white beehive with a poem that reads 'bees need flowers / flowers need bees'.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
slow metallic rain books protector
Detail of rusted metal cladding on exterior of the first ever Carnegie library in Dunfermline.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
tide travelled coastline settled
Sun dried and bleached piece of driftwood, partly hollowed out with a dark fissure revealing the wood interior. On top, bright yellow lichen has grown and filled in deep indentations in the wood.
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
vibrant matter
Slender branch of yellow lichen-encrusted sycamore extending horizontally. Several vertical spurs continue to hold dried leaves which shine under intense autumn sunlight. Sky is a uniform, bright vibrant blue.
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VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
How durational pieces unlock catharsis: Benjamin Poore situates @catherinekontz.bsky.social's "12HOURS”—premiering on Thursday—among a history of durational pieces with the power to move van-magazine.com/mag/duration...
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The Book of Hours
Twentieth-century physics expanded our sense of subatomic and cosmological scales, opening up musical time and space in the process. Modernism is full of the complex dance between “large” and “small.”...
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Apartment House @apartment-house.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In one week we appear at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. We perform works by John Cage, David Wojnarowski, Ben Patterson, Theoretical Girls and Anton Lukoszevieze. We like performing, we like this work, we reimagine and reperform and react. www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/deep-t...
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Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
first day of the frozen birdbath (& cold fingers!)
Hand holding up a circle of frozen ice to a blue, cloud-streaked sky. The ice was removed from a frozen-over bird bath.
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