Steve Bucknell's photos

Barnsley striding out, or walking backwards. Barnsley rising from Eldon Street: 2let 2u, Vape, Admiral. Or declining forwards: the peak of a flat cap shading its eyes.

All that is seen beyond the reflection shivers And the words with which I look shiver and stand apart and look

Disused. Wath upon Dearne.

Pottery kiln, Wath-on-Dearne. After Hieronymus Bosch. Hipstamatic effect. Angels helping human souls to Heaven.

Walker in a curved mirror: the unquiet landscape, lover of the exaggerated expanding and shrinking view.

Hipstamatic, Tintype effect. Round the cloister from nowhere to nowhere, dust to dust and back, we are the mystics and visionaries, acolytes of darkness, and brothers of light. We are relentless. Follow us.

A sacred Geometry, the study of the repeating shapes, patterns and colours from which all Ipernity is formed. It is rooted in the invented *Italo-Byzantine culture and used to signify how everything in the world is interconnected.

“If there's no meaning in it,” said the King, “that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any.” “Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll.

Breedon Wath Upon Dearne Ready-Mixed Concrete Plant. Hipstamatic effect. As a friend commented: “Would make a great fridge magnet.”

“But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.” ― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

Resurgam It shall be from this Parish Church that the villagers of Brampton will rise again: where the colliers of Kilnhurst, Swinton and Wath will be brought up from the dark to the treetops; where Doris and Arthur, Annie and Stan shall rise; where the Pals of the First War shall be woken, bemused by the watery sun and the rain; where the Vikings shall leave their longships, and the Legions stand on the Roman Rig. Children shall be lifted to their mother’s arms. Rest assured as you turn in your hospital bed, in your Trojan ditch, or tent, or prison yard, that all shall rise again at Brampton Bierlow. And this the proof: this scrip, cut in stone, fashioned by a free mason on this bright day, the 16th of January 2024, in bold : RESURGAM.

Only a few fragments of the temple remain in the ruins.

After Magritte. Te lucis ante terminum .