Quartz at St Johns DumfriesWhat activities would you like to see Quartz getting underway?
Art installations in St Johns building and elsewhere?
Outerweave #SensingSpirituality in community settings?
Forest Church?
Ignation Spirituality?
Blended online/physical housegroup?
The Floating Monastery?
Other ideas …
Pleaae comment.
In The UK it is now summer time.
Everything will happen an hour before your body thinks it should.
Clocks need to be set forward an hour 2pm (UT) is 3pm (BST).
Mobile phone and internet devices do this automatically based on the region they think they are in.
Sundials need their gnomen tweeked
And the clock in your car will either be right or wrong for another 6 months.
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This video was made in 2017. It shows a range of things which have been carried out in partnership with St Johns church in Dumfries which involve visual arts.
What will you be inspired to seek out where you are?
Art is part responding to the invisible urges of the moment, and part trudging through debris to carve out a new furrow. Each artist has their own methods, but for me I relish the importance of wildness in the way I work. I expect, and look out for, moments and find that this is rewarded by things coming together in ways beyond what I can imagine.
So several decades of staring at engravings, the waters of the Nith, an opportunity to reflect provided by “The Stove Network” and a day with just the right light on the fallen leaves all came together one morning.
Another Stove project is “Nithraid” and one of it’s themes is restoring the relationship the people of Dumfries has with the river. #NithMirror was born staring at the water, and reflecting – finding insight. The labyrinth in the leaves is made by walking in a way which transforms the park on the river bank.
Within minutes of making the labyrinth kids were racing into the middle of it and puzzling out its path. #NithMirror won’t solve all the problems of flooding, car parking or closed businesses- but it did draw out something deeply rooted in human being, and invites people to become involved with their landscape.
Look out for more #NithMirror incarnations! And take some time out to reflect while you watch a video of the remaking of the labyrinth and listen to Kate singing “Who Knows Where the Time Goes”