The Oken Stone Podcast

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 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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