DAY 2 TRÉLEX RESIDENCY
THRONE (Found Object) placed with divining rods.
Today I started ‘close in’ from the front door and walked out into garden - wandering with camera and divining rods.
Grafted Cherry Tree
Wonderful autumn colours, but it was the Wendy House that caught my attention and a broken rotten chair lying nearby.
The yellow bucket marks the junction between the Energy Line and the Water Line (Wendy House).
First I asked for the Earth-energy line and then the underground water. As is often the case human beings seem to place objects on top of them. The ‘Wendy House’ and ‘Station Masters’ cabin both sit on water lines and I placed the reassembled chair on the energy line, with its consent.
The reassembled chair walks on the Energy Line.
I marked the water-energy line junction with a found small yellow bucket.
The chair seat chose to become Shelf at the garden boundary of the Energy Line.
I remember reading that Shinto shrines (shinsha) are usually completely empty; they act as shelters for the spirit/s of the place (kami) which maybe symbolised by a mirror.
In the case of large landscape features, such as mountains or rocks, the shrine may be empty and a sacred enclosure created for the kami by a rope called a shimenawa .
The Wendy House sits on one of the Water Lines. Empty apart from a old exercise book, three pencils and a colony of red and black bettles.
An old timber cabin sits over the Deep Water Line. It was the local Station Master’s shelter and is equipped with a hefty cast iron stove, shelves, cupboards, sink and glazed windows. It must have been as toasty as a sauna.
The Station Master’s Cabin
The Station Master’s Stove
There is a small stand of woodland on a oval shaped hillock at the far end of the garden which is bisected by the energy line. I’m very curious about what ‘s under it?
The Wendy House is home to a large colony of beetles.