walking in a large slow river 15/10/11

 There's a hole in the puzzle, something has been forgotten

 Wandering into the mystery, a voice sends whispers from a secret garden...

 It is here and not here. 

 Unlike the garden path,

 time is a large slow river

 and you are standing in it

 just as I am standing in it

 and everything that flows down to us

 flows away from us.

 The wisdom of ancestors

 and ghosts

 echo across the water

and other dimensions leave their traces in our time.

 Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's audio walk A Large Slow River at Oakville Galleries was a fascinating first-hand sensory experience.  As we discovered, site specificity is essential to the work.  

To listen to more audio and video walks visit  

http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/walks/index.html

Included is Cardiff's account of what really happened the day recording for this project began.

For more disjointed exploration of 'place' visit

http://robotflaneur.com/

To make binaural recordings using ear-bud headphones like Nathan explained in class check out

http://art.simon.tripod.com/stealth.html