pferguson | April 18, 2021
Radium – Light the catalyst… She’s wonderful isn’t she…her dance…her name is Loie Fuller [pioneer of modern dance and theatrical lighting] if you wish to see her again…she calls it… this dance…her fire dance…[Why?]…I believe its because she’s interested in the way flames move. Henri Curie speaking to Marie Skłodowska from Radioactive. Screenplay by Jack […]
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Tags: Bibliothèque nationale France, Chilliwack, Film History, Great War, Henri Curie, Jack Thorne, Loie Fuller, Malta, Marie Curie, Marjane Satrapi, Nobel Prize, Petite Curie, Radioactive, Radium. Polonium, X-ray
pferguson | November 4, 2018
The 5th for the 11th This day of days – peace. Days before – rumoured endings. Does the rumble grow quiet, with this stoppage of time? As we await with eagerness, for a new tomorrow? (12:52 AM) Asleep at one time this evening I awaken to the repeated poppity-pop of fireworks and ‘crackers. Roman candles […]
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Tags: Great War, November 2018, Pimlico
pferguson | August 16, 2018
Thread Twelve The heat wave has relented and for much of the day we venture forward in the downpour. Rain-water bounces off the taut umbrella towards me managing to find those points at the neckline where it can scurry its chill down one’s back. Meanwhile, I attempt to skirt the roaring streams that run along […]
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Tags: 11 November 1918, Between the Wars, Great War, Imperial War Museum, Post-World War One, Second World War
pferguson | August 12, 2018
Thread Eight Despite those of us who have been drawn to Ypres because of the Great War there are other colours to this town. It is alive and filled with the voices of today and hopes for the future. Ypres – Ieper is filled with community – its own community – its own people. There is colour […]
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Tags: Carnival, Fantasia, Fim History, Great War, Menin Gate, Peace, Sorcerer's Apprecntice
pferguson | July 29, 2018
Known Place and Unknown Place Place-names, landscapes…markers that we come to identify with as part of our being, as well as places we have learned about, but may never have stood upon their presence to feel our connection. The personal place memory of Canada’s Great War has passed along to the heavens with the loss […]
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Tags: 8 August 1918, Battle of Amiens, Canada's Last 100 Days, Great War, Landscapes, Place-names