| Description | Hardback red notebook including handwritten texts and poems by Keir Smith, each dated from the first entry on '4.2.79' including 'Journal of my 29th year', 'The Sky…', 'The Earth…', 'Stargazer/Speculator', to the last entry at '6.2.83'. The subject matter includes landscape, location, state of mind, growth and decay, mythology, agricultural cycles, constellations and zodiacs particularly Orien and Leo. Also lecture notes on animals in art and hunting, memory and dreams, growing and dying, mortality, war and battle and the body. Also notes on family and work and making stencils. Includes poems relating to Keir Smith's works, 'Realm of Taurus', 'Ceres' and 'Sailing Ancient Seas'. Notes on 'Walking with Paul'. Keir Smith references 'The Wanderer' dated '22.7.79', [which was a text chosen by Keir Smith and Clare Rowe to be read at his thanks giving service in April 2007]. Keir Smith's text is prefaced by a note made by Clare Rowe, ' ''The Wanderer' written in Grizedale Forest during first residency' and also the text is annotated by Clare Rowe |