Place language: the significance of memory, space, and home

Ryan Hooper
Nov 5 · 6 min read

How shifting space shapes our foundations of home and memory

Looking up at the sky through a forest of trees.
Looking up at the sky through a forest of trees.
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“Words act as compass; place-speech serves literally to en-chant the land – to sing it back into being, and to sing one’s being back into it.”

Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

The foundations of memories

Ryan Hooper

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Words and noise. Loops and leaves. Jump cuts and scribbledehobble. Inspired by language, sound, and vision.

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