Tag: Cathedral

  • Blackening

    I Once Loved A Lass (Orkney Blackening) The following images are video still-frames showing Orcadian weddings and blackenings taking place around the Merkit Cross and St Magnus Cathedral on Broad Street in Kirkwall. These events feature in a forthcoming music video produced for Sikkersnapper – an arrangement of the ancient ballad I Once Loved A…

    Sikkersnapper - I Once Loved A Lass (Orkney Blackening) music video still-frame showing wedding guests entering St Magnus Cathedral. One man in a suit strides out of the shot.
  • Someone Else’s Head

    Someone else’s head Someone else’s head is a screen print of St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Orkney. It is in two halves, which are partially mirrored but not the same. Each half contains one colour that the other does not. St. Magnus Cathedral is juxtaposed with a neolithic skull and paint splatters. The meaning of…

    someone elses head st magnus cathedral skull martin scott laird