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Observation #4 Looking at Babel
Living here is a Faustian contract. Life in the great cities of civilization must have always been so. But as much as there is poverty and hardship…
May 31
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Observation #3 Sounds Familiar
Something I thought I would miss is recognising the sounds of birds. Since I was a boy growing up in the Scottish countryside, birdsong has followed me.
May 7
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April 2025
Observation #2 First Steps
I must push myself out onto the streets to find what I will learn to love here, to map the outline of my new city beyond the superficial impressions. To…
Apr 14
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Observation #1 Arriving
Here I am in my sixth decade and finally I have arrived to live in New York City. You can listen to or read my first observation.
Apr 3
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PhilipDundas
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March 2025
The Idea of Home
More than anything, home for me is symbolised by emotional connection. And though I have lived in other cities, I have felt this nowhere more than…
Mar 6
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PhilipDundas
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February 2025
Scotland and the Divided Self
Scotland has always had a crisis of identity. There is no single version of who we are. Though certainly argumentativeness seems to have been at the…
Feb 28
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PhilipDundas
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Turbines
Bronwen Sleigh Turbine II, Etching
Feb 23
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Beginnings & Endings
By the time I was a few months old, I had already experienced three mothers. Birth, foster and adopted. They had all, in turn, turned their backs on me.
Feb 23
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PhilipDundas
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On My Adoption
In the 1960s adoption in England was still a private matter. Babies were passed over garden fences between relations or if you were the 'right sort' you…
Feb 12
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Poem ‘Our Lady of the Sea’
Looking back to a peaceful walk up Heaval Hill on Barra in the Hebrides.
Feb 8
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PhilipDundas
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The Painter and the Piano
A circle of connection completed by a piano, two coats and visits to Thirsk Hall and Morocco Street
Feb 5
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PhilipDundas
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The Outliers
In Memoriam Norman Ackroyd CBE RA
Feb 5
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