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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 14

Posted on 06/04/2020 by Bobby Seal

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. Marcel Proust – In Search of Lost Time     The fortitude shown by some people in this present crisis is really quite humbling. My eldest daughter, … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 13

Posted on 05/04/2020 by Bobby Seal

one step-width water of linked stones trills in the stones glides in the trills eels in the glides in each eel a fingerwidth of sea Alice Oswald – Dart Julie makes swift progress for the waters of the lake are … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 12

Posted on 04/04/2020 by Bobby Seal

I also took a digital approach to letting the river guide the composition, through a process called sonification. In the same way we might visually represent a set of data in a graph or diagram, sonification represents data through sound. … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 11

Posted on 03/04/2020 by Bobby Seal

What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that–everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me, it … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 9

Posted on 01/04/2020 by Bobby Seal

The flow of the Ill had often taken me in its current. I had spent so long wandering along its banks and along the cobbled paths away from Petite France that I had rarely explored the local vicinity of my … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 8

Posted on 31/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

The Thames cuts a lonely swathe through maps of contemporary London. She’s one of the last visible remnants of a natural landscape lost beneath concrete and steel. She trails sadly through the megalopolis like a party ribbon hanging from the … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 7

Posted on 30/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

He has the feeling he’s staring back in time, or at another part of time. And, as he stares, the white, blown carcass of a moon-like fish – a tench – stares back from the reed bed, its ripped flesh … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 5

Posted on 28/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

The river is within us, the sea is all about us      T.S. Eliot – The Dry Salvages Julie is one of the lost. Sitting on the train to West Kirby, alone and enveloped in her thoughts, as ever, … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 4

Posted on 27/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

So the lockdown continues and all my river wanderings must either come from memory or take place in the virtual world. My other daughter, the middle one of three, is self-isolating too. She is pregnant and has been advised that … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 3

Posted on 26/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

So now, with my youngest daughter back from university, we have three of us at home under lockdown. But my wife, as a key NHS worker, still has to go out. Her patients need her, which is why she and … Continue reading →

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