Ragged Tales and Ruminations.

Photos: Jim's Ealingy grotesques, during a closed session at the cottage and our family workshops in Askam the other week. 

It's been a good few days for Still Waters, what's emerging is a sort of aphoristic rumination on the way a place can tell its own story, with Jim and his cousin Kev at the centre of it, telling theirs.  

The rest of us work at a remove, responding to what we find, what we are told and shown. 

 Askam's history is in the hands of people that know it and live it. We are interested in how stories within it get told, through anecdote, folk processes, and in the role of formal and personal archives.   Story, like land, is fluid and shifting. It shifts with every visit and every telling. Jim and Kev's versions of this unruly ragged slice of family history dip into official versions and family lore, and  each carries their own fingermarks , along with the discrepancies and shifts in tone that result from any process of reproduction and re-telling. 

Back in Ulverston, Lindsay's exhibition continues to attract visitors to the 

Sir John Barrow Cottage. 

Here is a further sample of her work around the Askam ponds.