'over the horizon'


Artists David Harbott, Anna Keleher and Kate Paxman are exploring the Berry Head National Nature Reserve which lies on the urban fringes of Brixham in Devon. Berry Head is a 400 million year old limestone promontary and is a designated SSSI for its nationally rare plants, its colony of horseshoe bats, the largest colony of guillemots on the South Coast and its geology. It houses the remains of 2 Napoleonic Forts which are scheduled monuments, and a vast, abandoned quarry which dates back over 300 years.
'over the horizon' is a Smooth Space project in partnership with the Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust with support from the English Riviera Global Geopark

Thursday, 7 June 2012

The Gullemot that could talk

  
                                 THE GUILLEMOT THAT COULD TALK 

An Artist one day went in search of a guillemot that could talk. She came to a fishing village, and said to the people there:

"I am looking for a guillemot that can talk" and one of the women there said:
"To-morrow I will go with you, and I will be a guide for you, because I know the way."

Next morning when they awoke, those two women set off together. They jumped in a kayak and paddled off around the head. They came to the foot of that bird cliff, and when they arrived at the foot and looked up, it was a mightily big bird cliff.

"Now where is that guillemot, I wonder?" said the artist. She had hardly spoken, when the woman who was her guide said:
"Here, here is the nest of that guillemot bird."

And it came out of the nest that bird, and went to the side of the cliff and stared down at the kayaks, stretching its body to make it very long. And sitting up there, it said quite clearly:

"This, I think must be that artist woman, who has come to hear a guillemot speak" 

Story adapted by Anna from an original folk tale by Knud Rasmussen, 1921 
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/inu/eft/eft55.htm



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