The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

Tag: maps

  • Soundmarks

    Soundmarks

    Rose Ferraby and Rob St. John discuss their audio-visual art project animating the sub-surface world of the landscapes beneath Aldborough, North Yorkshire.

  • Hinge

    Hinge

    My Body is a Forest; Self-Addressed; Elsewhere – three poems from Hinge, Alycia Pirmohamed’s new poetry pamphlet, published by Ignition Press.

  • All The Places

    All The Places

    Three poems by South African poet and clinical psychologist Musawenkosi Khanyile, from his recent collection, All The Places, published by uHlanga Press.

  • Drawing Water

    Drawing Water

    Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on…

  • Mapping Edge

    Mapping Edge

      Mapping Edge   Finger touched mapped faded edge, unending ink black shaped lines, tracing hillsides I walked as a child. Black tufted strokes, old rough pastures, where curlews once rose away from me, ungrazed now, fallen into rush thistled bog. . The parish track, a dry stone wall field margin, a ridgeway in words,…

  • Border Dreams

    Border Dreams

    I never dream about maps. I used to draw them for a living. I have dreams about every other passion. It occurs to me that to dream about maps might be almost impossible – like dreaming about dreaming. Mapping is its own activity, its own universe, separate from the rest of the living. One is…

  • Notes from the Field

    Notes from the Field

    An amateur entomological and botanical study in four locations, at five different times of day, by artist Anna Garrett.

  • Gold and Guano

    Gold and Guano

    “Thinking takes place in the relationship of territory and the earth,” wrote Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Geophilosophy, an essay published in their 1991 collection, What is Philosophy? Standing right up close to the works of Giancarlo Scaglia, I wonder if that same strange place – somewhere between territory and earth – is where…

  • A Voice Leads through Space

    A Voice Leads through Space

    The narrow lane from Llanrhaeadr to the waterfall. The slopes of Glan Hafon one side, Moel Hen Fache the other.

  • Editorial: Root Mapping

    Editorial: Root Mapping

      There is no map to the place we are going. We will be lost for a good, long time. — Eva Saulitis, Becoming Earth (2016)     Between Vermont’s Green Mountains and river valleys, an estimated 1,500 migrant farmworkers milk the cows and run machinery that help keep the state’s landscape open and its…

  • Open call: Root Mapping

    Open call: Root Mapping

      *** Root Mapping is currently closed for submissions. We will reopen again soon. You can sign up to our newsletter for updates. ***     There is no map to the place we are going. We will be lost for a good, long time. — Eva Saulitis, Becoming Earth (2016)   Between Vermont’s Green…