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stonechat
"If I now click pebbles together to make the stones chat, is that the same as the time that Susie did it?"
Mark Leahy 2017
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Two stones on the wrack-line stand out -- one has a seaweed quiff. I pocket both.
I see a fence post. Few Stonechats can resist a fence post to sing from.
My hands perch on the post and chink the stones together.
The stones talk, speak, as Stonechats speak. Being takes on a certain Stonechat-ness.
I am Stonechat now.
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I fly off.
This is how things are
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Joint actions and activities focused on creating dialogue between the human and nonhuman, often through oblique strategies such as mimicry and hiding.
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Residency at Dawlish Warren Nature Reserve, Devon 2016, was awarded The Artist Information Company Professional Development Award - a collaboration with Megan Calver* and Gabrielle Hoad.
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*Photo by Megan Calver
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