tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90107814096758521892024-02-07T16:57:09.235-08:00gatheringAlec Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11604980865660585293noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9010781409675852189.post-13415519172200041772018-10-15T08:04:00.001-07:002019-08-27T08:30:48.560-07:00A Place-aware Walk<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Gathering</span></i><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"> is an innovative mapping of the
Highland landscape in poems, essays, photographs, and maps, conceived by
Scottish artist and poet Alec Finlay. The work guides the reader to modest and
forgotten places in this complex region. </span></div>
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worked from Adam Watson’s published collection of names, one of the most significant
modern contributions to Scottish folk-culture consisting of over 7,000 local
place-names, covering every ruined farm, shieling, hill, glen, spring, burn,
and wood in the region. Over a period of years, Finlay expanded Watson’s
catalogue into a generous ‘ecopoetic’ and ‘place-aware’ account of the
Cairngorms, accompanied by photographs showing the hills in all their seasonal
variety. Essays guide the reader to names that reveal the haunts of wolves and
wildcats, and cast a vivid impression of the great pinewoods that once grew
there, and may again.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">With these local names as a guide one becomes
aware of a wonderful range of locations that have been overlooked – forgotten
shielings (summer huts), and springs, or lost forests, as well as modest patches
of berries, and places that have names because they were once useful to peasant
farmers. I term this approach place-awareness, and I hope it will give readers
a new appreciation of the region.’ - </span></i><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Alec Finlay </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "avenir book"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">A
multitude of perspectives – of the walker, hiker, climber, stalker, gun, forager,
birdwatcher, and geologist – are gathered together, weaving varied perceptions
of the landscape and revealing the ways in which these reflect human uses and
human desires. By combining poetics, ecology, and folk-cartography, Finlay’s
‘place-aware’ philosophy offers readers and visitors alike a remarkable new
insight into this evocative and vulnerable landscape.</span></div>
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hotel, located in Braemar within the heart of the Cairngorms, which will reopen
in December 2018 after a complete restoration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finlay has contributed to the names of the hotel’s 46 rooms
and suites, with each room a homage to a place, person, event or activity with
links to Braemar. Finlay’s artwork will feature throughout the hotel, and his
poems will be carved into the wooden headboards in some of the guestrooms.</span></div>
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Place Names of Upper Deeside</i><br />
Adam Watson: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Place-names in much of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Place-names
provide the methodology for this eco-poetic mapping of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Am </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Monadh Ruadh, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
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or</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">
red hills</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">, now commonly
known as The Cairngorms, Upper </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Déeside</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">, The White Mounth,</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The place-names are from </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Adam Watson’s collections: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Place Names of Upper Deeside </i>(1984) compiled with Elizabeth Allan<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">;</i> the follow-up,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Place-names in Much of North-east Scotland </i>(2013); and a recent
collaboration with Ian Murray,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Place Name
Discoveries on Upper Deeside and the far Highlands </i>(2015)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">That
we have so many names available to us for this fascinating region, where
Gaelic, Scots, Pictish and English inter-mingle, is largely down to the
diligence of Adam, his collaborators, </span><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">and informants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Adam’s name collections make
a significant contribution to Scottish folk-culture. They total over 7,000
place-names covering almost every field, ruined croft, shieling, hill, corrie,
burn, and wood, gathered from 260 local people. The names are commonsense and, occasionally,
mytho-poetic; they convey ways of seeing and preferred formulations. In adding
a sub-stratum to the Ordnance Survey they offer a radical class based
‘eco-poetic’ alternative to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Landranger </i>and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Explorer</i> maps. This</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> perspective on the landscape</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> has a contribution to make in terms of current land
use debates – the movement initiated by Frank Fraser Darling, maintained by
Adam Watson and Dick Balharry, and re-ignited by Andy Whightman – they have
always combined a social and ecological perspective. They also offer a new path
for eco-poetics, and add to what I like to call the hutopian movement, and
place-aware walking – a term I coined for this project. In other words, they
belong within that renewal of interest in the wild, innovative mapping, foraging,
marginal gardening, and the blending of commons and crafting. The blogs will
touch on these, along with more traditional practices, like stalking, hiking
and climbing – always by way of names.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Compare the level of coverage these
place-names provide with the paucity of today’s automobile-centric maps, and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Google-Earth, which impoverish </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">place-names
and represents the non-urban landscape as a beige desert or wood of a green no
leaf has borne.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A name is a place
and its absence. How rare it is to be present at the moment a name is coined? </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">There are place-names that record a
fleeting moment – the presence of a bull in a field, a landslide, or the death
of someone out on the hill – and there are names that seem to refer to an ever-present
– the mountain upon which a snow wreath rests deep into summer.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">If
we choose to see the world through names and their meanings then a v</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">ast
field of reference awaits us – a world characterized by flux. W</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">ords change when they become names;
names change when speech is written down; speech changes with the incursion of
new language communities and flattening effects of popular culture. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
old Gaelic names of Deeside were liable to be Frenchified, Scottified, and
Latinised, long before they were Anglified and mapped by the Ordnance Survey.
We have to listen in to the hidden sounds that reverberate within them if we
wish to understand, or guess at, their meaning. Today’s English-speaking hikers
like to salt their speech with corries, bens and bealachs. John Murray, author
of the touchstone R<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">eading the Gaelic
Landscape,</i> lists some of the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Gaelic toponyms absorbed
into English and Scots: brae (bràigh), cairn (càrn), craig (creag), glen
(glean) and knock (cnoc). </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Not
everyone will recognise other borrowings: gob, trousers, smidgen, bother,
teaming, smashing, and slogan. </span><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The study of names is
a matter of linguistic archaeology, but we should never forget that naming is a
creative and, sometimes, unconscious act. It is less interesting to reduce
names to the words they once were, than to attempt to follow the passage
through which they have been altered and, sometimes, transformed. Names are
about our belongingness: how we belong changes. Names are a guide to human
time, human space, stewardship, and loss.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When
I was invited to work with Hauser & Wirth – the generous collaborative
teams they assemble ensures it is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">with</i>,
not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for</i> – I decided that <a href="http://gathering-alecfinlay.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html" target="_blank">place-names</a> would be my guide to the region. In
particular, I wanted to work with the remarkable catalogues of names collected
by Dr. Adam Watson.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It was in one of Adam’s
books that I first read the name of a burn, Allt Phouple, named for a ruined
sheiling – a summer pasture – in the upper Gairn. Adam’s translation is ‘the
burn of the booth’ – like the </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">búðir</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">
the Icelanders used for their temporary huts of stone and skin coverings that
were set up around </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">the Alþing every
summer, at <i>Þingvellir</i>. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I have given this
translation:</span></div>
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Phouple</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Shelter Burn</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I was lucky enough to be guided out to the
ruins by local guide Ian Murray, who has written three books on the region,
drawing on the folk memory of some of the same informants as Adam – folk such
as Rob Bain of Ardoch. What Ian and I made of the name Allt Phouple, and its
meaning, will be the subject of a future post. One of the name labels that I
used in my initial field research is included above.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We are no longer summer-walkers, but</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> our minds remain tailored to identify
marks in the landscape. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Standing stones and
significant skylines are evidence of a belief system – what Hanna Tuulikki
calls ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">memnonic topography’</i> – that
adapts the landscape into a seasonal clock, essential for managing the
agricultural calendar and making the best of what’s available. </span></div>
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nam Blàithean</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Adam’s survey of local names defines a</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> poetics – or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">eco-poetics</i> – of the bioregion of the Dee,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> tracing flora, fauna, lost forests, and
deer-tracks, making common cause with Walter Benjamin’s thought:</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Isn’t every region governed by a unique
confluence of plants and animals, and isn’t every local name a cipher behind
which flora and fauna meet for the first and last time.</i>’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A shift of the
gaze can change what we perceive and, in a similar way, knowing the meaning of
a name can bring a shock of recognition. Names travel us through time,
unraveling their meanings, revealing the ciphers: this was once the lair of the
wolf, here is where the stags gather:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">These blog posts
bring together two projects. The eco-poetic mapping will become artworks for the
Fife Arms, Braemar, along with a publication that including maps, photography,
poems, and prose, some of which you can read here. As ever, I am working with a
team of people – some local, others from farther afield – identifying
place-aware walks and other ways to appreciate the complexity of the landscape
of Upper Deeside.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Collaborators
include Hannah Devereux, the primary photographer on the project, who worked on
the <a href="http://alecfinlayblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Memorial%3A%20remembrancing" target="_blank">Taigh memorial at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh</a>, and
Gill Russell, who worked with me on the colour walks in <a href="http://alecfinlayblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Some%20Colour%20Trends" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Some Colour Trends</i></a>, and is creating watershed
maps and working with me on conspectus. Place-names guide our attempt to
represent the ways that locals and visitors experience the Monadh Ruadh –
stalking, climbing, walking, ecology, history, deer, and pinewoods, each
perspective is a different vision and our interest lies in allowing these to
speak to one another, sometimes agreeing, sometimes arguing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The field research
is extended by a parallel </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">artist
residency at the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">wh</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">ere
I will share ideas with Jo Vergunst, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Tim Ingold, Alan Macpherson, and others; as well as working with the poet
David Wheatley, who teaches creative writing in the School of Language and
Literature. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Having got to know these
peers outside of their offices through shared conversations at <a href="http://www.deveron-arts.com/home/" target="_blank">Deveron Arts</a>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I will do my best to
erase departmental markers</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jo and I share an
interest in new walking practices, such as my own place-aware walks, viewing,
and conspectus, which are partly inspired, or necessitated, by the limits
illness imposes on my walking. And we will also explore </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Caledonian pinewood regeneration, looking at
sites on Invercauld and Mar Lodge Estates. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Some of these ideas, in
particular those connected with walking and viewing, are also being explored in
a new journey project with Ken Cockburn, <a href="http://follytour.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Perthshire Tour: follies, views & wild gardens</a>. Other previous journey and mapping projects are listed in
the blog roll.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In the posts and
publication the English translations of the names are my own, based on Adam
Watson’s, and with reference to other sources and contemporary experts – referenced
in the bibliographies that feature at the end of the posts. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Adam’s translations are available as a definitive
record and, of course, the interpretations I have given will never supplant his
greater scholarship and working knowledge of local Gaelic. My English versions
of the names are ‘poems’; for example, conventional English translations from
Gaelic would give ‘burn of the X’ or ‘hill of Y’ and, although these are
accurate, I chose to work as a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">translator</i>
of poetry would, bringing the expression over into English, giving a sense of
the broader meanings, using words appropriate to a local toponymic feature,
especially where I was able to view the site. </span></div>
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<i>The Place-Names of Aberdeenshire</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br />Peter Drummond:
email to Alec Finlay, 2015<br />Adam Watson: <i>The
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AF, 2015<br />The All-mhad
Barn, Creag Nordie: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Hannah Devereux,
2015<br />Pine, Invercauld:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Hannah Devereux, 2016<br />Bog-cotton</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">
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