belonging
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Trespassing Time with Friends: Growth, Land, Harvest, and the Darkroom of the Self
Or, how to last forever. This sub-post builds on previous installments of The Edgelands and is in response to my residency at the House of Annetta, a social centre focused on spatial justice and land reform in the heart of Spitalfields that I have been working from. For 40 years it was home to Annetta…
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The Edgelands: Body As Edgeland
Or, what it was really all about: love. Welcome to Edgelands post #6. We are walking the edgelands, looking at the body as an edgeland both physical and metaphorical, the changing seasons, the who and why of edgelands, liminal spaces as healing spaces where we meet both others and ourselves, and physical pain as surrender.…
alleyways, aloneness, anamendieta, anger, barbarakruger, belonging, bodyasedgeland, brownfield sites, cameronawkwardrich, chronicillness, chronicpain, community, desire, disused railway tracks, edgelands, foucault, grieving people, hermits, homeless people, hostels, industrial estates, isolation, liminalspaces, longtermchronicillness, longtermillness, mariapopova, mentally ill people, nomansland, people with addictions, pilgrims, radicalove, simoneweil, sineadgleeson, teenagers from abusive homes, thebody, tonimorrison, travellers, underpasses, victoriantimes, witches, workhouse
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The Edgelands: Alleyways – Boundaries, Belonging & Disappeared Maps
Transitory Bodies // The Physicality of Wheelie Bins. Welcome to Edgelands post #5. This week I revisit an old hometown of Hemel Hempstead, itself an old edgeland till it was populated by post-war Londoners, look at how some maps show alleys and others don’t, why and how our bodies navigate down them, loving strangers, how…
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