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03/12/2023

Scrying the Landscape XVI w. Haron

Through ocean mists, the sound of the foghorn is huge, rattling, and momentous. Warning ships of hidden rocks, its colossal call is slowly disappearing, replaced by GPS onboard vessels, and a backup system of electronic sirens further out to sea. For the sixteenth instalment of Scrying the Landscape, Haron delivers a lament for the slow death of the monstrous, melancholy machines, evoking coastal folklore, shipwrecks, and the loneliness of lighthouses. As the poet Anne Carson writes: 'A foghorn sounding through the fog makes the fog seem to be everything'.