In which the mountain appears before you in many guises. All is what it seems it is not. You are lost until...................

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You begin to climb the mountain. Perspectives slide. You find a door..........

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Here you are met by your guide. They will lead you on your journey into the mountain. You must trust them, they must trust you. Hold hands and go with them.........
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Sound on this track was made by me using recordings taken in the fields, ponds and hills around where I live.

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This is a short introduction to a series of episodes that bring you a story about mountains.

Companion (On the Way)

On your mountain there are trails
with little indication of where
they may lead, and even less
of who made them.
The thorns and open meadows
at your feet lead the walker’s eye
but confound their souls with
perspective shifts and obscured vistas.
Once embarked upon this journey
I will travel through your landscape
until my legs cannot walk any further
and my eyes close and my knowing
is the knowing of you.
There is no map nor magnetic needle
and each moment is both perilous and beautiful.
At times within the wandering
of my own mind the journey of you
and the journey of me becomes the
same place, and looking at my
arm outstretched I am not sure whose
limb it is nor who is asking my
body to move.
At this time, in this place,
there is only you and me and the steps
that we must take together.

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This is an introduction to the Oken Stone Podcast, what the name means and what to expect from future episodes. I am an artist making work in a number of different disciplines, with philosophy firmly at the core of them all. Through this podcast I will share thoughts and ideas, some of them factual and many of them abstract. 

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This is a short poem that I wrote whilst building a large fire-sculpture for the Wintertide Festival in Hertlepool in November 2023. We were staying in an Inn of the same name on the Headlands near to the sight of the gun battery and the location of a temporary lighthouse that stood on the moors from 1915 and until a new one was built in 1927. I had caught a flu bug the day before and was in a semi-halucinatory state, reflecting on the singularity of that moment, and of life in general.

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