Mourning Auks

Exploring creative articulations of ecological loss

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  • Life within the viral cloud

    Life within the viral cloud

    Time passes, washing over the island in a cycle of near continuous day. The Earth spins, and the sun is drawn down into a brief dusk, pulling light into the sea and lower sky. My plaster eggs, held in their pinhole cameras, collect all this illuminance onto their surfaces. Occasionally the haar drifts in, a […]

    Milo

    July 13, 2022
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    Bonxie, Celia Lowe, extinction, Great Skua, H5N1, Papa Westray, Papay
  • Papay Update

    Papay Update

    A blashie day, meaning one of blustery showers, gives me a chance for an overdue update. I write sitting at a wooden table in the converted byre at Hundland on the north end of Papay, one of the outer isles of Orkney, close to the seabird cliffs at Fowl Craig where the last pair of […]

    Milo

    June 20, 2022
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    creative practice, eggs, extinction, great auk, Papa Westray, Papay, residency
  • Reflections from an experimental practice residency

    Reflections from an experimental practice residency

    Recently I was very lucky to be awarded a subsidised experimental practice residency at Trevellan, near Constantine in Cornwall. This post offers a brief account of this residency and some reflections on its outcomes. For the past eighteen months or so an idea has been elbowing me for attention. Whilst reading Thom van Dooren’s book […]

    Milo

    December 17, 2021
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    creative practice, eggs, extinction, great auk, residency, thom van dooren
  • Why mourn auks?

    Why mourn auks?

    It might seem strange to begin here by questioning the title I have only just given this blog, let alone a working title which is currently shared with my thesis. But increasingly I wonder if mourning is the right word for the sorts of practices I want to pursue in my explorations of the extinctions […]

    Milo

    December 3, 2021
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    creative practice, donna haraway, extinction, great auk, judith butler, mourning

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