by Tim Girvin | Jan 21, 2011 | Diary
As I walk the abandoned farm land of pressed grains, weeds and rushes, since there is a chill – I can hear the needles of cedar, pine, crackling like ice. And there, in the field, is a piece of rusted iron, found in the sea, but now resting in the scumbled soil,...
by Tim Girvin | Jan 19, 2011 | Diary
To the wood, the physical practice of chopping wood is the distinction from the hard, and blood scenting brace of cold iron — the blade of the ax — to the splitting wet of the wood that is new, and just fallen. And older timbers, that have lain, warmed and...
by Tim Girvin | Jan 18, 2011 | Diary
It’s one thing to consider design as: performance, entertainment, strategic foundations, sketching, statement impressions — or, all of the above. In thinking about the legacies of environmental meditations on the efforts of Turrell, Goldsworthy, Lin...
by Tim Girvin | Jan 14, 2011 | Diary
Matthew Girvin, on the day of his receipt of his Unicef passport – the global passcard of commitment to humanity It was today, ten years back, that my father called me to let me know that we’d lost my brother Matthew Girvin. Matt was on a helicopter...
by Tim Girvin | Jan 13, 2011 | Diary
BRIGHT LIGHT LIGHT MIND. METAPHORS OF THE LUMINOUS INTELLIGENCE I’ve been working with scientists, these days, exploring ways to tell stories in a manner that people can understand. Or better still, ways that truly celebrate the power of what they are...
