Painting white on blueThe sun draws curves of bright lightOn the spinning worldHaiku by Jean Cole
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Jean Cole is a member of the Dunbar Writers Group and has traveled extensively through her work abroad.
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Building silhouettes, glass reflections and a glorious arcing set of sun trails.
Sun Trails
– Haiku by Jean Cole
As this phase of solargraph canisters continue to be gathered in (if you still have one it is not too late to hand it just leave a message and we will arrange collection.) we are also looking for works that have been inspired by them. If you have any poetry, prose or even other imagery which has been evoked by the sun trails, please submit it to the project by email/comment for inclusion in the next part of the project.
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Elspeth Haston, Deputy Herbarium Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, placed her canister in the upper window of the RNLI Lifeboat Shed, looking across between the bridge and the Granary of Victoria Harbour, Dunbar.
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The solargraph has good examples of sun trails and light reflected on the window pane. The harbour wall and other buildings are visible along with vignetting from the curve of the paper in the canister.
The RNLI will be having the Dunbar Lifeboat Fete on 21 July 2012, starting with a High Street Parade at 1.15pm and continuing at Dunbar Harbour from 1.30pm
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Colin Will is a poet, publisher and a member of the Tyne and Esk Writers
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Colin Will’s solargraph has has only a few sun trails from it’s higher elevations – allowing the static objects in the foreground to be seen.
Colin Will has composed a haiku on his image –
Light tracks on paper
Sun morsed by passing cloud
An arc of sky shines
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Lesley May Miller is a sculptor, poet and book artist who resides in Dunbar. She is member of the Dunbar Writer’s group and the Artist Book Group.
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Lesley May Miller’s solargraph clearly shows the sun tracks and the houses opposite the placement site. The pale, jaggy line was probably produced when the solargraph had the shutter opened and was moved into position. The pale lines to the right show reflected light.
Example solargraph canisters.
As we made these canisters in December we wondered how the experiment would turn out. Would it work? We are about to find out as the first batch have been returned after their 6 month exposure!
Thanks to those who allowed us to install these little cameras around their homes and to JC for gathering 12 of these in for us.
Example solargraph
The solargraph experiment in Dunbar has begun.