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Lara Band

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Archaeologist. Likes scapes: land, sea, sound. See also:

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Bad Piñata.
I made you from old paper bags.
We got attached.
Sad Lara. A wonky donkey piñata, home made with stripy paper bags and googly eye, stands on a red and black carpet, giving the photographer the side eye by @_laraband

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Always something a bit magical about getting the Woolwich ferry home after seeing friends 'south of the river'.

#tfl
#woolwichferry
#rivercrossings
#Thames

Description: a night time scene of a river, with the bright lights of the city reflecting on the water. The film is taken from the south side to north side ferry, with the north side to south side ferry crossing in front. by @_laraband

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Great day out at the International Maritime Organisation, #openhousefestival & the Morden Centenary Treasure Hunt #tfl by @_laraband

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Delayedagram: impressions of Berlin, July taken in Berlin, Deutschland by @_laraband

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And that's a good night and thank you everyone for coming to The Sad Sardine xxx by @_laraband

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Eclipse (minimalism)
Pinhole fun On a shadowy piece of paper is a tiny crescent of the sun by @_laraband

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2 months ago

Greenway eclipse
#solareclipse2026
#solareclipse
#greenway taken in Plaistow, Newham by @_laraband

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THINGS SEEN FLEETINGLY FROM TRAINS -
(somewhere between Berlin and Brussels)

No. 1 in the series - Tree perforated landscape

THINGS SEEN FLEETINGLY FROM TRAINS -
(somewhere between Berlin and Brussels)
No. 2 in the series: Watertower

THINGS SEEN FLEETINGLY FROM TRAINS -
(somewhere between Berlin and Brussels)
No. 3 in the series: Large pointy concrete egg hiding behind trees

THINGS SEEN FLEETINGLY FROM TRAINS -
(somewhere between Berlin and Brussels)
No. 4 in the series: Brutalist church with a Rhenish helm

THINGS SEEN FLEETINGLY FROM TRAINS -
(somewhere between Berlin and Brussels)
No. 5 in the series: Tower In the forground is a sweetcorn field, on the horizon are trees with slender trunks and pom pom canopies silhoutted against a blue cloudy sky taken in Deutsche Bahn by @_laraband

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Flashback pt. 1 (2 weeks ago).
In which, after 3 attempts since c2012, I finally got to visit the Atomium. Worth a visit inside for the exhibition detailing its construction and immediate context (Expo 58) and for thinking about parallels with the 1951 Festival of Britain. And a very good post visit read for some wider context: Dennis Pohl's 2021 paper (open access,J of History and Tchnology) 'Uranium exposed at Expo 58: the colonial agenda behind the peaceful atom'.

Next stop, Berlin.

With @rockballard In an architectural model, stainless steel atomic structure of rods connected by balls, towers above housew and trees taken in Brussels, Belgium by @_laraband

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2 months ago

** Flag making for convivial water relations**

On day two of Water Chronicles LIVE - I led a free public drop in workshop, with participants making flags with scrap fabric: taking inspiration from the International Code of Signals for the use of all Nations, for communicating without borders and for convivial more than human conversation. Thanks to everyone who came and created, and to @rock_ballard for support

The flags then flew above Fluvial Chorus, a workshop exploring the voice as a portal to ecosystem collaboration with @hannah_mary_white, then listening pieces and performances by Margarida Mendes, Jol Toms, @Blanc_sceol, Richard Wilson and Sheill - Wilson -Thompson

Water Chronicles LIVE is led by @blancsceol (@hannah_mary_white and @stephen_shiell), a collaboration with @insola_berlin and their floating art platform. The flags (and the two banners created at @Surge_coop July eco-gathering) will travel back to London in September for a series of events with @Insola.berlin - more details to follow

**This project is funded by Cultural Bridge, which celebrates bilateral artistic partnerships between the UK and Germany**

📷 1-3, 5 @rockballard

#WaterChronicles
#Spree
#CulturalBridge
#FlagsIsIt A floating platform is topped with a blue structure made of scaffold poles. Two long banners hang down, made of patterned sqaures in shades of brown. Around the scaffolding flags sewn into a long line are strung. There are also gongs and drums attached to the structure taken in Spree River, Berlin by @_laraband

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Hoisted (and the hoisting): *In gentle kinship with water*, from one river to another, Channelsea to the Spree

Banners that started as squares of fabric painted with Channelsea river mud @surge_coop July eco-gathering, dyed with damp loving meadowsweet and scrap iron, stitched into 4m long banners. Part of Water Chronicles LIVE : a project led by @surge_coop's @hannah_mary_white and @stephen_shiell (artist duo @blancsceol), in collaboration with @insola.berlin, and funded by the Cultural Bridge which celebrates bilateral artistic partnerships between the UK and Germany.

Thx to
@blanc_sceol for inviting me to lead flag making workshops in London, and Berlin (next post)
@rockballard for stalwart assistance and 📷 1-5
@insola.berlin for installation help
@theoutsidedyers for dyestuffs and advice
Anyone who made a banner square (please tag yourself if you see one you made!)

#Spree
#Channelsea
#RiverRights
#WaterAsAPublicSpace A floating platform made of blue painted scaffold poles drifts on a river with buildings in the background. Two 90cm wide x 4m long banners made of 30cm squares of fabric dyed in shades of brown with only just discernible patterns hang vertically on the scaffold taken in Berlin, Germany by @_laraband

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Hello Spree from the Channelsea!
Water Chronicles LIVE first night - here all tomorrow too with a public workshop, river listening and performance *link in bio*

Excited to be part of this project, by @surge_coop, led by @hannah_mary_white
,and @stephen_shiell (artist duo @blanc_sceol) with @insola.berlin

**Water Chronicles LIVE is funded by Cultural Bridge, which celebrates bilateral artistic partnerships between the UK and Germany** taken in Berlin by @_laraband

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