The Hermitage
Monday, 25 January 2010

Melted Snow...

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T HERE IS A KNOT in my heart made of old string, melting snow and hesitant birdsong. I cannot tell you its tale, for it is far too sad. But...
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Monday, 14 December 2009

It is snowing in the book of my childhood

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W HEN I WAS SMALL , my family travelled to Oberammergau , a Bavarian village at the feet of the Alps where the houses are painted with fairy...
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Friday, 4 December 2009

Sunrise, Moonset, Lanternlit, Rainwet

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F IRST FROST after weeks of wet. And the crystal grass is pinking with the sun-up. It is beautiful and it is cold and I jump back in to lig...
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009

An English Arcanum

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A WHILE AGO I told you of three mysterious hares who shared between them just three ears and yet had two ears each. All over Dartmoor the...
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Rima Staines
Dartmoor, United Kingdom
Rima Staines is an artist using paint, wood, word, music, animation, clock-making, puppetry & story to attempt to build a gate through the hedge that grows along the boundary between this world & that. Her gate-building has been a lifelong pursuit, & she hopes to have perhaps propped aside even one spiked loop of bramble (leaving a chink just big enough for a mud-kneeling, trusting eye to glimpse the beauty there beyond), before she goes through herself.

Always stubborn about living the things that make her heart sing, Rima has lived on wheels a few times in her life. She's currently rooted in mossy South Devon, halfway between moor and sea.

Rima’s inspirations include the world & language of folktale; faces of people who pass her on the street; folk music & art of Old Europe & beyond; peasant & nomadic living; magics of every feather; wilderness & plant-lore; the margins of thought, experience, community & spirituality; & the beauty in otherness.

Crumbs fall from Rima’s threadbare coat pockets as she travels, & can be found collected here, where you may join the caravan.
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