Eight Things

By Sophie Paul

20 pgs
112x164mm
Staple bound

This short zine follows the tradition of turf-sundial making in the 18th- early 19th C shepherding community, using an image of a 1909 turf sundial to create an alternate time-scape that manipulates light and shadow.

"It says, wood, turf, light, shadow.
A shepherd takes his sheep to graze on grassy downs. In a place from which the cheap watch has not yet driven it, he constructs a simple turf sundial to tell him when it is time to return his sheep for night folding. It says, he may have a long distance to go; it says, with no clocks within hearing, he resorts to a turf dial. It says, if the sun fails him, and his dial consequently does not work, he has to calculate by dead reckoning."

This zine is accompanied by an audio recording, available at: http://justspeaknearby.org/