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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

One of the truest and most heart-stoppingly beautiful voices I ever heard..... three years gone today. Unforgettable.

Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.....Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.” (Alan Watts). #earthday

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose doorways are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his Hour or two, and went his way." (16th quatrain from The Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayaam, 1048AD - 1131)

“Bahram Gur Slays the Rhino-Wolf”, Folio 586r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu’l Qasim Firdausi. Iranian Painting attributed to ‘Abd al-‘Aziz. Workshop director Aqa Mirak. Iranian. ca. 1530–35. Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper Metropolitan Museum.

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

in the nick of time.....(since it's nearly midnight....) LÁ FÉILE PÁDRAIG SHONA DUIT lads and woo hooooo good on ya Jessie Buckley!

a photograph of The Emerald Isle from space, looking very very cute and sweet, little lacy clouds to the east and the west, but largely green and gorgeous.

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Merab Abramishvili's "Angel of Khareba".....you're welcome.

Merab Abramishvili (მერაბ აბრამიშვილი) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merab_Abramishvili was a Georgian painter, 1957-2006. This painting of an angel (he painted several) looks as if it has been eroded by time - the colours are smudged and striated, almost as if underwater. The face is unclear, but the movement is clear - stepping widely forth whilst raising the right hand, the index finger extended as if pointing forward. The fabric of the gown a vivid but broken turquoise, the body mostly browns, golds, indigo, peach, red. On we go....

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Same. So sweet, I named a label after her .....❤️

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

!!!!! SHE DID IT !!!!!!! 💃💃💃 With dignity, intelligence, sensitivity, and conscience. 😍

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

BANDCAMP FRIDAY! All sales from our shop go to GAZA nowadays - & today Bandcamp waives its cut, so we can send a wee bit more. Prices from €5, guests include Eno, Fripp, Steven Wilson, Matmos, Michael Begg, Steven Wilson, Abul Mogard, Peter Chilvers, Percy Jones & more... foveahex.bandcamp.com

screenshot of the front page of our Bandcamp Shop....a total of 6 eps (Salt Garden 1, 2, 3 and Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent 1, 2, 3), 2 full length albums, Salt Garden Landscaped, (collection of guest remixes from SG 1, 2, and 3) and Here Is Where We Used To Sing; 4 singles - The Glacial Lake, The Slow Slow Air, Hail Hope, and Cockles & Mussels (with Matmos), and We Dream All The Dark Away, a long beautiful remix by Abul Mogard of All Those Signs, from Salt Garden 2).

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Happy Mothers Day! What a beauty.

The earth as seen from the Moon - (photograph by William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission, December 24 1968)

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Instead of Bandcamp Friday today, BC's% is going to WILDFIRE RELIEF, 👏. Meanwhile, our own % of Fovea Hex sales today will be going to GAZA via @unicefireland.bsky.social. From €5, collaborators/guests include Eno, Matmos, Abul Mogard, Peter Chilvers & more... bit.ly/3WT3tDX

SINGLES €5 each: 'WE DREAM ALL THE DARK AWAY', Abul Mogard's stunning remix of 'All Those Signs', our hymn to the hubris of climate denial; 'THE GLACIAL LAKE' (2 tracks): Peter Chilvers' delicate and beautiful remix of this song, as well as the original track; THE SLOW SLOW AIR, a fugue-like homage to the Irish slow air; HAIL HOPE(2 tracks): Hail Hope is a rousing anthem for anyone whose heart is sinking in darkening times, and Carol reframes darkness as "Mother of Light"; COCKLES AND MUSSELS is a beautiful deconstruction/reconstruction by Matmos, in tribute to Alan Turing, of the famous Irish song, sung by Clodagh. (Faced with imminent trial on charges of gross indecency, he insisted upon playing it on the violin for the police officers who came to his home to take his statement).
EPs/ALBUMS €7-€10 each: SALT GARDEN 1, 2, and 3 (4 tracks on each);
HERE IS WHERE WE USED TO SING (11 tracks); SALT GARDEN LANDSCAPED (2 x 20 min remixes by Steven Wilson of 2 tracksfrom the Salt Garden eps); NEITHER SPEAK NOR REMAIN SILENT (9 tracks);
for track listings, guest artists, lyrics, etc. see https://foveahex.bandcamp.com and for reviews, see http://www.janetrecords.com/2019/reviews.html

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Ah - safe flight, beautiful Marianne, to wherever it is we fly....... 🙏

b/w photo of Marianne Faithfull looking, as always, "effortlessly cool", and beautiful....this one I'd say she's in her mid to late 20s.

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Many aeons ago, as a teenager, I played and sang in a psych-folk-rock band called Mellow Candle (that's me on the right). Alison, the lead singer, just joined Bluesky....still singing beautifully and releasing lovely things - give her a follow! @alisonodonnell.bsky.social.

L to R, William Murray (drummer), Dave Williams (lead guitar), Alison Williams (lead singer), Frank Boylan (bass), Clodagh Simonds (keyboards, vocals). Taken circa 1971, EVERYONE has hair that's at least shoulder length long. Willy sports a floppy wide brimmed hat,(which he didn't always wear), Dave a red velvet skullcap (which he did always wear) we all look soooo young, (Alison and I were still teenagers!) and we are clearly a bunch of good hippies.

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

For anyone in Irl or UK, facing into the storm tonight/tomorrow - this is a really good tip, if by any chance you get caught out with a phone about to lose charge.....stay safe, all!

"If you are ever lost while hiking, get stranded with a broken down car, etc., and you notice your mobile phone is either low on battery or has no signal, here is a tip that very well may save your life. Change the voicemail on your phone to a message that gives your approx location, the time, the date, your situation (lost, out of gas, car broken down, injured etc.) and any special instructions such as you are staying with the car, you are walking toward a town, etc. The best part of this is that even if your mobile phone dies or stops working, voicemail still works, so anyone calling your phone looking for you will hear the message and know where to find you or where to send help. Pass the message on - it may help save a life."

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

HAPPY 🎄HOLIDAYS to all holidaymakers, and here’s to the light that the darkness can’t overcome……

My beautiful Bluthner upright has miraculously sprouted all manner of fairy lights, several candles, a big green illuminated star, various shiny spherical orbs, and an Our Lady Of The Sign. No idea how this happened, but Fovea Hex has survived 2024, phew.....

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

night night, I'm off to Planet Pomegranate.

A mediaeval looking painting of someone who looks as though they're inside of a bell jar, gazing through tendrils of an indeterminate plant , with leaves, some of which seem to be hosting insects, larvae - there's also a wasp or a bee, and other creatures hard to determine (it's pretty surrealistic). There are also pomegranates- I think? Though they could almost be walnuts....split open..... and what looks like some pomegranate seeds have drifted into a huge drop of water, which is touching the outstretched left palm of the person gazing out. Their right hand holds a stem from which most of the tendrils arise.

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Here's a bit of snow. Night night...

Early b/w photograph (by William Bentley 1865-1931 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley) of a snowflake. Hexagonal centre, from which 6 branches emerge, each one somewhat tree-like in shape, with several branches. The impression is of symmetry, but in fact there are lots of irregularities, so that it looks very alive....

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

here in Ireland we say PUMPKINS ARE FOR WUSSES.

the original. a face carved not from a plump glossy orange pumpkin but from a turnip ("swede" to some), as we in Ireland - who frankly invented Halloween - knew nothing about pumpkins and Thanksgiving hadn't been invented yet. Nuthin jolly about this guy, he looks bleak, grim and pained, and would chill your heart. (This is in fact an image of a plaster-cast reproduction which is in the National Museum https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Top-things-to-see-in-the-Irish-Folklife-Collection/Artefact/Ghost-turnip/b202e8ea-0728-4b3d-b0f1-82660fe45ce9)

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

TOMORROW! Michael's stunning visuals/soundscapes - the fruit of his 6 week trip to Antarctica earlier this year - will be presented as part of Sonica Glasgow Festival sonic-a.co.uk/events/out-o... (have I mentioned how good it is?) 8pm - The Glad Café (Dress code: Red Carpet.)

OUT OF WHOSE WOMB COMES THE ICE "Somewhere between the blurred orchestral washes of Gavin Bryars's The Sinking Of The Titanic, the creaking emptiness of Nurse With Wound's Salt Marie Celeste, and the sublime, submerged mysteries of John Luther Adams's Become Ocean... Haunted both by the near future and the barely perceptible unravelling of the present" (The Wire)

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

….and then there were 22! Last week, 34, and the week before, 46. Wading through the undergrowth - revisiting sprawling sketches and tiny fragments from the last few years, selecting which will come to light as the next Fovea Hex thing. Getting there. S-l-o-w-l-y...... of course....

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

Aaaaaaah - I missed Aldous Huxley's birthday on the 26th! My Father was a big admirer......here's a gem:

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 13/07/2024

RIP Bill Viola, and 🙏 for sharing what you saw about Seeing. ".....the most important work I have done has come from not knowing what I was doing at the time I was doing it.....you just jump off the cliff into the water and don't worry if there are rocks just below the surface."

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

Well well well - whaddya know? My old friend Odilon just turned up and offered me a lift back to 2024! Here we go....

Painting by Odilon Redon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odilon_Redon of a small blue/purple boat, with one large luminous yellow sail, on a green sea flecked with small white waves. Two people sit in the stern, looking forward.....

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

The Mellow Candle Listening Party was great craic! I'm not often in Cork City, and I was thrilled to visit the legendary Izz and Eman Alkarajeh at Cafe Izz izz.ie for some delicious Palestinian food afterwards. That food! and Holy Moly, that coffee!!!! 😍They are proper stars. #saoirsedonphalaistín

https://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/taste-of-home-the-owners-of-izz-cafe-on-the-love-story-that-took-them-from-palestine-to-cork-via-direct-provision/39593139.html

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

....back in Cork soon, and slipping into some past life regression on Wednesday. Myself and Alison, both erstwhile members, will attempt to revive memories of our 1971 teenage selves. The memories might be a little bit addled, so wish us luck! And come in for a cuppa if you're in the area......

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Yes, yes, things have gone a bit quiet again. Because I have temporarily relocated to Mudrov-Purlistan. Here’s my new home. Quiet, no TV, no wi-fi. I’ll leave my little window open and see can I record some Mudrov-Purlistani folk songs for you, as they come drifting in on the evening air……

Nacre (/ˈneɪkər/ NAY-kər, also /ˈnækrə/ NAK-rə),[1] also known as mother of pearl, is an organic–inorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer. It is also the material of which pearls are composed. It is strong, resilient, and iridescent. (Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacre)

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

Here, have some Ukrainian Pysanky! Happy Easter everyone, let's hope there's hope....

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Late to the Paddy's Day party I know - but here is the man himself, looking VERY ASKANCE across the pond, at those in High Places who claim to share the auld DNA...

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Behold! The South Pole of Jupiter(🙏NASA Cassini, December 2000). Even a brief gaze is a proven antidote to ocular exhaustion, psycho-emotional dissonance, incredulity overload, and generalised malaise. You’re welcome.

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

This is Janet. Goddess of Unconditional Love…..

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Dear St. Brigid, Matron Saint of Ireland, Goddess of Fire, Pagan Superstar, Druid Daughter, Christian Icon, Milk-sharer, Poem-kindler, Helper of the Poor & Hungry, Defender of the Weak, have a lovely day! 🔥. Ps. pls have a quick word with your exiled son Joe across the pond? Bit of a nudge, like?

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

@michaelbegg.bsky.social BON VOYAGE to far Antarctickay Michael! May the craic be mighty! No, wait…..

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

For various reasons the last couple of years have been a bit on the quiet side. 2024 might just be a bit shape-shifty though……HAPPY HOLIDAYS one & all - see you on the other side! 💫🌟✨⭐️💥🔥🌟

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Beautiful, for sure! Although here in Ireland (we pretty much invented Halloween….) we privately believe that pumpkins are for wusses. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

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