Tom Grey

Dandelion Apogee Freestyle

11 Minutes 23 Seconds

Visual document of a coastal walk from Trevone Bay to Padstow via Stepper Point

Family ties, ripe loss, great outdoors, sea floors, walking shoes, talking forward, dearly departed, divine injustice, renovation tactics, disposable plastics, slap stick grief, new legs new feet, falling memories, holding on, letting go, repeating statements, keeping time, meeting placements, war memorial, Cornish pasties, beached trinket, casket handles, heavy moments, weightless present, wind in sails, telling tails, wasting time spent saying pleasent, speaking silence, keeping pace, making faces, glimpse the lens, play pretend, play precocious, play pedantic, play pretentious, play precipitates auto focus, home in a walk done more than once, roots in a box, love in months, room in a hotel near the fire exit, skunk in sea air, nothing to see there, child memories are the bricks of myths, buildings shift in ships of mist, keep these hands in mind up there, casket handles built to last, hold the meaning in the moment and fill the water full of glass.

Trevone Bay to Padstow

(HOME IN A WALK DONE MORE THAN ONCE)

Suggested activities for listening:

Building self assembly furniture

Commuting at dawn, half asleep, window seat

Remembering

Once I was next to it, driving into light, sunspots decorating sight, windows with the wind up handles and music eating the minutes. We all felt tired, happily.

Orbiting the concrete rot, skimming days into memory, these moments become a nest and then we gaze to nothing, adrift beyond the pylons, a dandelion apogee.