Tag Archives: Maritime heritage
John Cumming and Cecil Tait
Ditty Boxes is a collaboration between Cumming, a Shetlandic/Orcadian sculptor, and Tait, a Shetlandic furniture maker. It came about as Cumming travelled around the Hebrides with filmmakers, oceanographers, sailors and writers as to create a cultural response to climate change through … Continue reading
Posted in Exploration In Practice, Family History
Tagged Cape Farewell, Cecil Tait, Ditty Boxes, Family history, John Cummin, Maritime heritage, Nancy Campbell, Orkney culture, Ponteferact liquorice, Sailor's keepsakes, Shetland culture, Voyage: Sea Journeys Island Hopping and Trans-Oceanic Concepts, Yorkshire regional foods
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Ship’s Journal: Mental Note
The Ship’s Journal will show a process, starting with entries initially with ignorance of local culture, then it’s discovery, charting/planning and experiencing. The ignorance stage may come to reference, though at the moment it doesn’t, Yorkshire stereotypes and technology-based ignorance. Mappae mundi and … Continue reading
YOU COULD SOLVE THAT WITH A BISCUIT DUNKING MACHINE 