tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2694983711794441623.post7558579890528891848..comments2024-02-04T12:33:21.975-08:00Comments on The Crow Diaries: Is nothing sacred! : mountain artists verses the puristsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2694983711794441623.post-36820775101193946122016-03-27T09:03:05.053-07:002016-03-27T09:03:05.053-07:00Yes, all too precious! My message is not good. To ...Yes, all too precious! My message is not good. To my dismay I have for a while understood that those ‘outdoorsie’ guardians of the hills are generally disinterested, unacquainted or just simply complacent of any ‘art’ generally. Any art on the hill will have some confrontational element – like, ‘What the fuck’. No real difference to a wind farm in ‘polluting’ their experience of moving in the hills. We are drip fed this nonsense through the fashionable and religious appreciation of sport (as if sport has any concern with the environment!). The quality of land-art does not help. Personally, I find much land-art to be idle doodling by sponsored popular artists that border on graffiti. I have no problem with it existing, as so the wind farm, because my appreciation of the landscape has little to do with what my eyes see... I have no romantic vision of the hills. I find man’s curious interaction with where he lives both interesting and bizarre. <br /><br />Beyond Craig (all is art) and Drazdo (don’t need it), and much to their chagrin is a third appreciation, and one I came to recognise and experience whilst studying rock art in New Mexico and the Four Corners for the Arts Council. There was indeed doodling on the rock…’I woz ere’…but also a profound, ceremonial and ritualistic placing of the image in canyon and gorge. This tribal, shamanic language nourished and protected in ways lost to modern society, lost to modern art, lost to those using the hill as a commodity, lost to those whose egos are sponsored to tear it up. Maybe eh? <br /><br />Believe me, it’s harsh, it’s sad, but climbing and art are rare bedfellows…<br /><br />John Redhead<br />johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13886177199574116375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2694983711794441623.post-6332818903839939912016-03-26T10:00:48.441-07:002016-03-26T10:00:48.441-07:00There's only one Stanza Stone on Ilkley Moor. ...There's only one Stanza Stone on Ilkley Moor. The six stones stretch from Marsden across the South Pennines to Ilkley and there is a 40 odd mile walk connecting them. The combination of words,stone and moor is compelling and seems to be a positive addition to the well worn Pennine landscape here.andyfromholmfirthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07867754761890859133noreply@blogger.com