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Patrick Phillips
- Sep 15, 2020
- 3 min
SceneStirling - Climate Change: Creativity & Survival
John Berger the Art Critic once said in a TV interview: “This creativity, which we are so attracted by in artists, which basically is why we are so interested in artists, this creativity, which in fact is potentially in everybody, will find it’s expression in life itself. I see art as we understand it as a tragic phenomenon.” Climate change. We see, touch, taste, smell and hear about it every day. Mostly through media platforms. But we also know of its biological and spiritua
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Patrick Phillips
- Feb 29, 2020
- 3 min
Perthshire Magazine - Rediscover Your Connection with Nature Through Ecotourism
Firstly, what is ecotourism? Before anything else, it represents the human need to travel. We’ll never stop doing so because it’s an intrinsic part of our being. We love to explore and discover what might be new to us, whether it be the known, unknown or rediscovered. It is that great sense of being awakened—we all need that too. The International Ecotourism Society defines ecotourism as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-be
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Patrick Phillips
- Dec 4, 2019
- 4 min
Part I: "Cup and ring marks"...why not "Sun and ring marks"?
It's quite confusing at first when you hear, or read the title, "Cup and ring marks" to describe an art form of rock carvings from 4,500 years ago. Therefore, I think it was lazy of art historians (and academics) to have done so, why? Because it lacks imagination. Why not "Sun and ring marks" instead? It would make a lot more sense. It was too easy to say "cup" and "ring" when the time came for them to be named. Furthermore, it is to blur this precious, and unique art into so
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Patrick Phillips
- Nov 23, 2019
- 5 min
Forgotten village of Glen Lochay - Tirai
On maps today, they are simply known as shielings. Without roofs, they can't be considered as a 'bothy' either. In the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a 'shieling' is defined as 'a mountain hut used as a shelter by shepherds'. Or from another perspective, 'a summer pasture in the mountains'. Today, in our culture a 'hut' would be considered a "man-cave". When you encounter such a place, all one can do is to place a certain wonder at what happened? How did this highland village b
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