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the one who always goes out with his net will catch birds sometimes

Beatriz Menéndez

 

Am fear a thèid a ghnàth a-mach le lìon, gheibh e eòin air uairibh
(the one who always goes out with his net will catch birds sometimes)

-Gaelic Proverb

Photographer’s Statement:

“In November, going further north into the Scottish Highlands is a parachute jump into the hiatus of winter, where cupboards are crammed with tins and the ghostly nimbus of fog hides the sun and sprays light instead. I was struck by the nakedness of the landscape, how all colours seemed to have been muted by the snow and the only break from whiteness were the iridescent plumage of clouds and the occasional silhouette of a deciduous tree. What all these pictures aim to capture is the unchanging attributes of vast, mostly uninhabited spaces, places  full of possibility which act as doorways into all times past and some more to come.”

—Beatriz Menéndez

Beatriz Menéndez
a calendar of winter days

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Our side of the mountain

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sun-warmed stones

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beachcombers in volcanic sand

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a still life of blue ashphalt

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Edinburgh

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North Atlantic drift

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roots, currents and clouds

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double yellow lines along the left side of the road

 

the finished bridge

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waves tranced with frost

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silence and a signal

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Glencoe

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constellations of question marks

 

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About Beatriz Menéndez

Beatriz Vöx Menendez is a visual artist and writer whose work has appeared or is upcoming in The Bohemyth, Roadside Fiction, The Referendum Rant and Foliate Oak Review, among others. In 2016, she published her first book of poetry, entitled Excepciones Universales, with Impronta Press, which won the Asturias Poetry Prize. in the same year. Short stories of hers were also included in the Manuel Nevado Madrid anthology. Her work explores the creation of place through space and the constant negotiation of borders.

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