Honeysuckle, as we see it — and as a bee does
Organic perception. A worldly self that is acquired not purchased or sold. Lifelong changes that couple human belief and contextual participation in our worldly nature.
Snoseas — the seasons reflected — is a practice rooted in the Devon landscape, following twelve of Shakespeare’s plants through natural history, Linnaean botany, folklore and the specific place I live in: between a Norman castle and a Benedictine priory on the hill above the River Dart at Totnes.
It began at 63, after a period of grief. I had not given the eulogy at my father’s funeral and felt that absence keenly. So I attended a public speaking course — and somewhere in that process, everything I had been quietly attending to for thirty years in the Devon landscape found its form.
The practice works across podcast, UV botanical photography, studio experience and landscape session. The podcast places the listener inside the Devon landscape before anything else happens. The UV botanical photography reveals what the bee sees and the human eye cannot. The studio experience gathers participants around a single plant on a table, the volatile compounds in the air, the making process leading toward stillness.
A Little More
Snoseas follows twelve of Shakespeare’s plants through the seasons — natural history, botany, folklore, and the science of scent and sight most of us never learn to notice. New editions arrive when there’s something worth your reading, never on a schedule for its own sake.
What Arrives
A new episode transcript when one’s ready. Occasionally, a shorter note — what’s flowering in the Devon garden, a research thread from the archive, nothing manufactured to fill a gap.
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