On the Road to Ormskirk I find pavement I have driven before in another state, across a border, across an ocean that divided me from some other place, where I spoke to people in a […]
Tag: Wandering Bards
Making Macarons in Paris, by Isobel Kay
A Short, Sweet Lesson in French-Muslim History ‘Parfait, Alice!’ Our instructor Guillaume, a French pastry chef, claps his hands in rapturous satisfaction. My twelve-year-old daughter carries on whisking the ganache, hiding as best she can behind […]
Symbiosis, by Anne Cleasby
Sleet turned to hail as the sky darkened into evening. An occasional streetlight still functioned, flickering with a dull orange glow, but Tiffany was grateful when the last working lamp disappeared behind the car, and […]
From Here, by John McAuliffe
The view from here is the border: the lake, close-up, is vertical. Not so much water as law and order. The word for it might disappear, the road run through its invisible wall. The view […]
Keeping Up the Training, by Alisha and the Duck
Trains. They are still the love of our Japanese life! Since the duck and I take trains pretty regularly now, we’ve had lots of opportunities to make mistakes, and learn from them, and to assemble […]
Ep. 5 | Jessica Elleray
Travelling has given me such a respect for how places and contexts shape communities and vice versa … I think it has given me understanding and it is an influence on my work. Let’s […]
Ep. 4 | Geoff Rushton
I like the idea of leaving work in the landscape … creating something where it has fallen, where the environment has nurtured it, and leaving it there for people to randomly stumble accross. Want to […]
Ep. 3 | Marja Lingsma
Being born on the other side of the world doesn’t mean you can’t talk to each other or understand each other … You have to stay curious about other people, and artists are curious by […]
THE WANDERING BARD 