{"id":1128,"date":"2009-06-28T07:49:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2009-08-01T13:51:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T17:51:54","slug":"allenheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/06\/28\/allenheads\/","title":{"rendered":"Allenheads – Land inside out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things of course are nothing like what they appear. Land like any other time-based and event-based instance needs to be decoded or requires literacy to understand its stories.<\/p>\n

Last week I was generously welcomed to Allenheads Contemporary Arts <\/a>by founders & artist producers\u00a0 Alan Smith<\/a> and Helen Ratcliffe, and by Hannah Marsden, curator of their recent show Exploring Nostalgia<\/a> (see earlier post on dead moles in dresses).<\/a> Alan gave me an intense tour of the land, 2 hours of condensed experiential learning by car and foot – jumping up and down on the watershed land (a spongy trampoline), looking at charming, flower-strewn brooks (actually garbage middens from 19th c lead miners), and learning to read the vertical scars on the hills – channels made by huntsmen to drain the highland moors for better pheasant and grouse hunting conditions. Underground, a white-lime painted maze of tunnels that takes you forward in time as you go further in (newest last); this work of burrowing has, like worms, left giant-sized man-castings on the surface which look like naturally\u00a0 picturesque bumps and hillocks.<\/p>\n

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Sheep up on the high moors, Allenheads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Allenheads, old house\/smelter remains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stream at bend of the original cart road into Allenheads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Alan Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Allenheads Contemporary Art family members Kaiser and Messerschmidt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Allenheads community member<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I thought there was an odd and distant kinship to New York\/Staten Island’s Fresh Kills<\/a> Landfill, of a long term land shape that’s formed from the inside out, entirely by man (see “Why Call Them Landfills? They are dumps, eyesores, middens and disgraces.”<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Fresh Kills - Then and Now (over the years)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things of course are nothing like what they appear. Land like any other time-based and event-based instance needs to be decoded or requires literacy to understand its stories. Last week I was generously welcomed to Allenheads Contemporary Arts by founders & artist producers\u00a0 Alan Smith and Helen Ratcliffe, and by Hannah Marsden, curator of their … <\/p>\n

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