Conversations

Meeting the Moon is a spoken word sound piece responding to the theme of the Chasing Sputnik exhibition at Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight. A human being is trying to hold a conversation with something so unfathomably extra terrestrial. The delayed echo draws attention to the distance, we are so far apart but long to know more about the world beyond the ground we stand on.

An excerpt from a series of conversations had with local residents of Boscombe. How do people experience a place, what is relevant to them, what memories are held and how do they affect our present experience?

Instruction 1 : Describe a familiar journey. Instruction 2: Over describe part of that journey.

In this podcast, Barbara tries to explain how she knows that the lampost is there. How would you intepret your surroundings while relying on your other four senses?l

In this podcast Claire and Barbara are talking on the bus. Barbara, although completely blind, is evidently more observant than Claire.