11 july 2010wild wild wood
When I saw this splendid miserichord in Hereford Cathedral, phrases came immediately to mind such as through bushes and through briars and as I walked through the wilderness of this world, in which the complexities of the natural world are used as a metaphor for human difficulties. Particularly difficulties of the mind: in more than one Eric Rohmer film as the heroine is going through an emotional crisis, the director cuts in a shot of trees tossing in a wind, or grass blowing - Herzog does it at the opening of Kaspar Hauser, too. Uccello's The Hunt in the Forest may well be an example. And then I remembered that at the very end of The Singing Detective the woods/brain connection is made even more explicit - fast forward to 8'15":
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