‘Memory / improvised of course / though back-lit in good faith’. Steve Smart’s newest publication, where visual and verbal images glance obliquely off each other, is giving me much joy (the tech challenge of trying to reblog WordPress on a given device not so much): it deserves to be wider read / seen / heard. I recommend checking it out as a diversion from whatever you need to turn away from this turn of season. Link to Steve’s blog here:

http://stevedsmart.wordpress.com/rambling/

My autumnal ramblings, including in Craigmillar Castle Park for a new ArtWalkPorty project, Five Walks / Five Trees / Five Poems with Jonathan Baxter & Sarah Gittins, have been filtered, or refracted, through the lens of Steve’s work: this photograph of Birch bark is after one of his and its maybe-corresponding stanza: ‘A knurl, a knub unbranched / landscape grown in wood-skin / drawn Fuji-form in miniature / blemished into mountain.’