Observation Sculpture: 210872<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n ICES Music Train – London to Edinburgh to York by train.<\/p>\n Distance: approximately 560 miles<\/p>\n Duration: including period in Edinburgh, approximately 17hrs 20mins.<\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n Observe:<\/em> Keep, follow, adhere to, perform daily; perceive, mark, watch, take notice of,<\/p>\n become conscious of; examine and note without aid of experiment; make remarks on.<\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n 8.35am\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 porter looking through window<\/p>\n person passing<\/p>\n we\u2019re silent<\/p>\n someone stops to look, to observe the observers<\/p>\n WAITING FOR THE TRAIN TO LEAVE (written on a small blackboard)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8.40\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 positioned next to open carriage<\/p>\n equipment being set up<\/p>\n \u201cJesus, those guys are nice\u201d (American accent)<\/p>\n \u201cgoodness me\u201d (with perfume)<\/p>\n Daily Mirror offered to us for ten bob<\/p>\n \u201clook Ma\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8.45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cSanta Lucia\u201d (beautiful)<\/p>\n someone patted me on the head<\/p>\n \u201cit won\u2019t go on the door!\u201d \u201cPut it up against the wall and try to hide it\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cwhat are they doing that for?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a game of draughts<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9.05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wood Green<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9.25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cvery pretty dear, oh, very pretty\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 draughts completed \u2013 all yellow<\/p>\n feeling hungry<\/p>\n \u201cpositive effects\u201d, shuffles from side to side, \u201cquite an advance this\u201d<\/p>\n horse with white feet<\/p>\n <\/p>\n TUNNEL<\/p>\n <\/p>\n blonde hair yellow mac<\/p>\n Carlo eating sandwiches moves blackboard<\/p>\n \u201clook at that\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9.35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 we\u2019re given a leaflet about a book being produced on the train<\/p>\n a train passes<\/p>\n observed<\/p>\n train picks up speed<\/p>\n it becomes difficult to write<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10.10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 someone tells us it\u2019s nice to see us here<\/p>\n a girl stands holding the bars of a carriage window looking out<\/p>\n train slows<\/p>\n barrel barrel barrel barrel barrel<\/p>\n cameras everywhere<\/p>\n Carlo reading a leaflet<\/p>\n bridge<\/p>\n Ren gets up<\/p>\n Carlo folds leaflet<\/p>\n Woolworths in yellow<\/p>\n someone passes, denim dragging his feet<\/p>\n man with his foot on a line<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cRichard\u201d<\/p>\n Peterborough<\/p>\n Union Jack<\/p>\n a sandwich<\/p>\n lots of patches on lots of bums<\/p>\n someone looking over my shoulder<\/p>\n now she\u2019s gone<\/p>\n someone with a Davy Crockett hat<\/p>\n a large blue diesel passes slowly but stationary<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10.20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sound from the next carriage \u2013 whirring clapping<\/p>\n a girl in silk passes<\/p>\n Carlo goes to the toilet<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and I\u2019ve been stamped<\/p>\n half an acre of cabbages<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10.35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and above everything the music of the track<\/p>\n a backside<\/p>\n a bag<\/p>\n a violin<\/p>\n a gate in the middle of a field<\/p>\n some guy with a balloon in his ear<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10.40\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 TUNNEL<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10.45 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cranes and cranes<\/p>\n he faces us bends his knees twice and carries on<\/p>\n forehead<\/p>\n cow<\/p>\n fired field<\/p>\n she leans on the seat and smiles<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10.50\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pond<\/p>\n toy windmill<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10.55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 scratch my head<\/p>\n signal at red<\/p>\n stroked<\/p>\n smoke in the next carriage<\/p>\n Carlo shuts the door<\/p>\n another carriage another world<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11.05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carlo reclines<\/p>\n tree tractor bridge elm fence pool cars barrels chimneys<\/p>\n pinks nets greens sand grass furrows grass pylon pylon<\/p>\n pylon pylon bales<\/p>\n washing on the line \u2013 blue sheet white sheet<\/p>\n bridge<\/p>\n grass hills like ant hills<\/p>\n he hangs on to his camera<\/p>\n crows<\/p>\n cabbage gone to seed<\/p>\n piles of gravel<\/p>\n blue balloon<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gravel pit<\/p>\n yellow<\/p>\n telegraph pole<\/p>\n tufts of grass<\/p>\n spire<\/p>\n crooked tree<\/p>\n cricket on a football pitch<\/p>\n piles of coal<\/p>\n she turns around, eyes over back of the seat<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11.20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 empty trucks, another line<\/p>\n he looks over my shoulder<\/p>\n signal box smoke<\/p>\n slowing<\/p>\n 3-2-3-1<\/p>\n lines and lines<\/p>\n swan<\/p>\n drums pigeons<\/p>\n voices singing<\/p>\n Doncaster<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11.25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 we stop<\/p>\n we start<\/p>\n sitting on the arm of the seat eating an apple<\/p>\n taps his foot, small bites, looks up<\/p>\n water, out of the corner of my eye<\/p>\n apple, licks his lips, gives us the core<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tractor red and yellow cart<\/p>\n people passing<\/p>\n cinder hill<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11.35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 roses climbing up a fence<\/p>\n six fat chimneys puffing smoke<\/p>\n horse and foal<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11.55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 black hood sits with us<\/p>\n sun on golden corn<\/p>\n purple flowers<\/p>\n hollow tree trunk<\/p>\n \u201cdid I tell you that story\u201d<\/p>\n old lady pegging out a skirt to dry doesn\u2019t look up<\/p>\n he leans on the seat, smokes his cigarette<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 he observes me then looks elsewhere<\/p>\n a girl sits with Carlo, talking, he points to Ren and I<\/p>\n we stop<\/p>\n no, we nearly stop<\/p>\n we move slowly<\/p>\n sounds electronic next door like a water whistle<\/p>\n row of terraced houses<\/p>\n pulling into York station<\/p>\n seagull<\/p>\n pulse, photo-electric cells<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12.05pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 she bangs a guitar – complex of pings and booms emitted<\/p>\n she is young<\/p>\n she writes: I like to see these men<\/em><\/p>\n we\u2019re still in York<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 someone points<\/p>\n we\u2019re being shown nice books of Icelandic art<\/p>\n I\u2019m being patted on the head again<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12.20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a light-meter about three inches from my nose<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12.25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ren turns over a page, looks at what he\u2019s written<\/p>\n three men question the young girl<\/p>\n pages turn over by themselves<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 someone is looking at this page as I write<\/p>\n pole after pole<\/p>\n long hut<\/p>\n white gate<\/p>\n brook<\/p>\n silver tube going over a bridge \u2013 lorry on the move<\/p>\n book clasped close to her breast<\/p>\n they look at us as they pass<\/p>\n beer<\/p>\n camera<\/p>\n beautiful girl<\/p>\n more cabbages<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12.40\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 conversation on paper:<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Your work seems consistent. Is it?<\/em><\/p>\n Consistently what?<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Present, I mean to say.<\/em><\/p>\n Yes, it\u2019s somehow unavoidable. Are you performing on the train?<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not performing, but participating. Any more questions?<\/em><\/p>\n I take it you are not British? Do you find much difference between the work you\u2019ve encountered here and that at home?<\/p>\n Generally, in a universal sense, no. But specifically, yes. Actually, I teach English literature \u2013 tres academic in a posh school, hee!<\/em><\/p>\n What ages do you teach?<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9th<\/sup>-12th<\/sup> grade, 13-18 year olds. Do you do this every day?<\/em><\/p>\n Not always in white suits. I teach art in a college.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We all have our realities, don\u2019t we. What have you learnt thus far from the Ices Festival?<\/em><\/p>\n One thing: although friendliness may not be universal it runs at least from London to Edinburgh!<\/p>\n Lovely. What are your companions doing writing and writing?<\/em><\/p>\n There\u2019s something about words. Although they can be used to divide everything, they can also be used to link things. So our writing helps us to concentrate, to engage with what is happening. Do you have to go? You seem a little tense?<\/p>\n Strange. I don\u2019t feel tense. I just don\u2019t want to miss anything, so I keep looking around. I agree about writing and concentration. Do you have another coloured pen? Do you have to go?<\/em><\/p>\n 1. No, only a pencil. 2. Only to Edinburgh. Do you know anything about the Richard Demarco gallery in Edinburgh?<\/p>\n 1. I have this pen. 2. Yes. We were going to do a piece there, but arrangements were too complicated. Do you want some cheese? Where do you live?<\/em><\/p>\n Does that mean you aren\u2019t doing a piece at the gallery, or you are, despite the complications? I\u2019m afraid I don\u2019t like cheese \u2013 though I don\u2019t know why I should be \u2013 afraid, that is. A place called Epping. A small suburban village on the A11, twelve miles north of London.<\/p>\n We\u2019re not doing a piece; I\u2019m glad as I want some time to walk about in Edinburgh. My ancestors came from there. We were in Epping on Thursday, doing a farm work. We had a meditative, quiet time. The land about there is so beautiful. Exit Farm, Dial House, is where we were.<\/em><\/p>\n You must have met Jerry at Dial House. He\u2019s a friend of mine. The second part of our work consists of sightseeing in Edinburgh – taking photos, buying mementoes \u2013 without these suits but with slight modifications to our appearance \u2013 for instance, silver hair. What part of the States are you from?<\/p>\n Jerry is a beautiful person. I\u2019m too serious. Fran is much more fun. She\u2019s a good talker.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fran: I will listen!<\/em><\/p>\n How can anyone be too serious? In a sense wearing the suit and the hood makes other people concentrate on our function (observing, listening, accepting) and not on our individual appearance. Although I think our eyes take on some importance seen though these holes.<\/p>\n Fran: you should mask your eyes! Words are wonderful. So are we.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 still in Newcastle<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pen ran out<\/p>\n train still<\/p>\n red balloon floats along the tracks back towards London<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.12\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 moving again<\/p>\n stopped<\/p>\n started<\/p>\n tracks from door to door<\/p>\n station without a roof<\/p>\n bridge over the Tyne<\/p>\n charcoal tower<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 underneath the arches<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HAVING A VERY PLEASANT TIME<\/p>\n fast rocking<\/p>\n slowing<\/p>\n bend<\/p>\n smooth straight fast<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.40\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a guy in purple almost loses his hat<\/p>\n Carlo lies down on the seat<\/p>\n Ren writes on a card<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 another hat almost lost<\/p>\n hand on hip<\/p>\n roses<\/p>\n gravestones<\/p>\n me. window. track. field. telegraph pole. turn to look at sea. tree. clouds. blue blue sky<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.50\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 blue sky, three inches wide along the tracks<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fire in the field<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pine wood<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 small concrete hut with windows boarded up and a tin chimney<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hills and hills and hills<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 empty buildings, outskirts of a large town<\/p>\n city?<\/p>\n Edinburgh?<\/p>\n no it can\u2019t be<\/p>\n tunnel<\/p>\n ivy on rock<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ******<\/p>\n 1.55am\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 my watch stopped somewhere on the way back and York suddenly appeared out of the dawn fog<\/p>\n <\/p>\n YOU CAN\u2019T HAVE YOUR TRAIN AND SLEEP IT<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Observation Sculpture: 210872 ICES Music Train – London to Edinburgh to York by train. Distance: approximately 560 miles Duration: including period in Edinburgh, approximately 17hrs 20mins. ___________________________________________________________________ Observe: Keep, follow, adhere to, perform daily; perceive, mark, watch, take notice of, … Continue reading