David Abbott

Notes

Topic: Nature

I like to pretend I accept the ambivalence of landscape but really I expect some subjectivity from it. I want its blessing, its confirmations, it’s healing powers. I want the right configuration of hedges, trees just so.

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  • Place
  • Writing
  • Landscape
  • Nature
  • Photography

Barn Wood

March 21, 2025

Barn Wood is full of wood anemones, a patchy blanket of expectant white faces pointed towards any break in the forest canopy.

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  • Place
  • Writing
  • Nature

Places form

November 24, 2024

Places as the interaction between the physical and the soulful

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  • Place
  • Landscape
  • Nature

Shooting in the dark

November 20, 2024

The small car park at the start of the Ridgeway is half full of camper vans. No one is stirring at 6:45am and there are no other walkers when I bounce the car over the uneven surface of the car park, grab my camera and start up the ancient track.

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  • Place
  • Landscape
  • Nature
  • Photography
  • Travel
  • Writing

October song

October 24, 2024

Sunrise mid-October, Hunter's Moon, Cornwall

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  • Place
  • Landscape
  • Nature
  • Photography
  • Travel

Shuffle

June 02, 2024

Photos from the marchlands

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  • Place
  • Landscape
  • Nature
  • Photography

Sunday service

April 30, 2024

A wisteria-wrapped memory of kites over a chalk field.

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  • Landscape
  • Place
  • Nature
  • Photography
  • Writing

Ridgeway

March 25, 2024

Photos from two days walking the Ridgeway

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  • Travel
  • Photography
  • Landscape
  • Nature
  • Place
  • Writing

On Gallows Down

September 18, 2022

A few excerpts on place and landscape from On Gallows Down by Nicola Chester

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  • Landscape
  • Place
  • Nature

Evermore

August 17, 2022

Words to accompany paintings in Evermore

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  • Landscape
  • Practice
  • Place
  • Nature
  • Writing

A Certain Day

July 02, 2022

Words to accompany paintings in A Certain Day

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  • Practice
  • Landscape
  • Music
  • Place
  • Nature
  • Writing

Fay Godwin

January 09, 2022

A 1986 documentary about the British landscape photographer

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  • Photography
  • Landscape
  • Nature
  • Film

Wild Nature

January 09, 2022

Imaginative affinities with the natural world

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  • Nature