29 Aug. - Skara Brae

 

Image: Skara Brae

Skara Brae.
Earth - Air - Fire - Water.
Raw, elemental life.

Perhaps a cold + hard existence softened by the warmth of family + community.
The hearths inside the hill; tunnel + fire offering protection from wind + rain.

The need to make becomes, with the gift of time, the drive to create - beauty always arising - from bone, stone + clay.

Brough of Birsay - proud + protected by the waves + tides.
Millennia laying hall on home, cloister on hall, light above cloister, and on ...

Notes: The layers of archeology bring perspective to mortality. Memento mori!