Sheepstor when viewed from base level – rises to a formidable bank of granite blocks – in contrast to the green, easier slopes around its sides…
On Sunday 11th. June 2017 – surmounting the top of Sheepstor’s wall was less demanding than usual because it had been dwarfed by a mass of towering cumulus… View from the top of the ‘wall’….Similarly dwarfed – as if by a mercurial shadow of its own making – expansive Burrator Reservoir appeared like a small sheet of mirrored glass…
As I stood into the wind – the effort of clambering up the steepest ‘path’ to the top of the wall seemed suddenly effortless – the 360° view was breathtaking. In contrast to the fixedness of my feet – my perspectives shifted around me – like the wind and the light across the surface of the water… After drinking it all in whilst enjoying a snack – I was delighted to find some old bones that I had once made into a ‘magic pile’… I found them locked in a crevice – down the side of the rock where I had piled them last year…
When eventually I came back down – I felt dizzy on oxygen – so I sat under an inspirational Hawthorn where I noticed the year turning too…
I stayed here for another indeterminable – indefinable measure of time…
I love this pulsing track by Amethystium – and their awesome artwork too! I feel like I’m connected to Dartmoor by a silken thread…enjoy.