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GEOPARK ARTIST PROJECT - ANNA KELEHER Researching the Agency of Things + Talking With Things. Supported by the National Lottery though Arts Council England

Geopark people, places and things 

Bonding with the bay 

Glad to be back in Devon after the dry and landlocked lands of New Mexico I am spending lots of time out there in " Nature " walking the green lanes and woodland paths around the bay, boulder hopping on the lovely beaches and yes I have even been swimming a couple of times. I love living in this Geopark  there is so much water and so many rocks and things.

Meeting Emily and the Geo-hound. 

Today I met Emily at the Seashore Centre. She is a marine biologist and also the Geopark Education and Community Officer. Lucky for me that the Geo-hound spoke my arrival to Emily as the door was locked, there isn't a bell and my mobile was dead.  

Emily is very nice, she showed me around the new Geopark room where you can go back in time and that sort of thing and then she let me  chat on about my project while she made some notes to pass to Mel. Mel Border her boss and Geopark co-ordinator has guests from the new Hongkong Geopark at the moment, so I didn't get to meet her but the Seashore Centre GeoHound made a big fuss of me and its always nice to be made a fuss of! 

Things beachy

After seeing the Seashore centre I went down to the sea and up a path at the end of the beach. You can see today's images in Photos 2 and some other pictures I took in the bay last week. I made some audio recordings of basset hounds howling but it was so very windy that the recordings aren't that good.

Behind the scenes

I am really excited to be liasing with the Geopark. I love being an artist and getting to see behind the scenes. In America we went back stage at the Great Sand Dunes National Park visitor centre and got to play with the wind up woolly mammoth and a helmet that helps you see as a beetle. They had a bear skin on the pegs next to the anoraks in the education room. 

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