thoughts and theory
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Late night diary 1
It’s the 11th today. Feels odd that I’m still less than two weeks into the project. I guess I’ve been waiting for it to start so long. I spent most of December just wishing the year to be over so that I could officially start this project. Now I continue to be frustrated because I…
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A vessel with no destination
Here’s another thought taken from my reading of st. Brendan that I feel really speaks to the unspeakable allure of making boats. St. Brendan set off on his voyage somewhere in the 500s, a time when no one knew if anything lay off to the west, beyond the Atlantic. It isn’t that people thought there…
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Sailing to the fictive past.
I’ve been reading The Age of Bede as part of my commitment to reading more books to feed my work. I am particularly interested by the voyage of st. Brendan (anonymous author) a partly historical but mostly fictional account of a sixth century monk’s voyage by boat to search for Eden. I will no doubt…
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Bound for Eden
In my thinking, research and imagine it’s clear in my writing here too- my interest when speaking about connecting to a history of boats is in an ancient and sometimes mythic past. When the water would take you to somewhere you didn’t know and it seemed like the edge of everything. It is in this…
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Behind the Seaside – thinking about Folkestone and it’s water.
I’m planning to make water going vessels, and I live and work in a coastal town. And so the following is some thoughts, ideas and investigation about Folkestone as might pertain to what I’m going to be doing in this project. As will become normal, this post is just a slither, it’s a thread to…
Jim Lockey 