by Brendan Jackson | Sep 27, 2015 | Work
International School of Dialogue, 2012-14 Web blog, documentation, training The first edition of the International Summer School of Dialogue took place at Krasnogruda, in the Podlaskie region of north-eastern Poland, with participants from Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine...
by Brendan Jackson | Oct 25, 2015 | Work
Fragments of Poti The birds wheel inland from the sea, passing low over Lake Paliastomi. Lifting her face to the rain, Chalciope would have seen them, known them all, and told some fanciful story or other to her sister of their heroic flight, of their comings and...
by Brendan Jackson | Oct 25, 2015 | Work
Fragments of Poti The light flashes twice flashes every 7.5 seconds, first white then red, reaching far out across the sea. The glass is from the Fresnel works in Paris, with concentric rings of ‘stepped’ glass, thick ridges in the lens surface which bend the light...
by Brendan Jackson | Oct 25, 2015 | Work
Fragments of Poti In the Eastern War, the Turks came again, surging through the scented, warm air. There are texts in the Qur’aan and Sunnah that prescribe the manumission of a slave to expiate sin, yet they send shiploads of captured children back to Constantinople...
by Brendan Jackson | Oct 25, 2015 | Work
Fragments of Poti Here he could imagine a real city arising from these pestilential swamps. He’s a daydreamer of a rare practical kind. When he closes his eyes he no longer beholds a riverbank strewn with broken planks but sees three new bridges. On the marsh, he...
by Brendan Jackson | Oct 25, 2015 | Work
Fragments of Poti The Argo is the first ship in recorded history (at least, in western history) to be named. The ship was built with help of the Goddess Athena, who inserted a fragment of the sacred century old Dodon oak, so that it could speak and render prophecies,...
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