Magic Camp
We invited friends, invented a story and went camping. I wanted to engender a sense of adventure and magic built around creativity, imagination and storytelling, so fuelled the camping trips with visits to artworks, strange notes, clues, making games, unusual characters and creative play.
Magic Camp in Ingleton: Ingle means 'fire' so living in Ingleton we clearly needed a fire celebration. Taking advantage of friends' amazing back garden on the foothills of Ingleborough, we made fire, painted the sky with fireworks, drew pictures with sparklers and hunted for 'fire rocks spat out by the mountain. If we found all the rocks and put them in the cauldron they magically became piles of marshmallows for toasting.
Magic Camp at Red Bank Farm: Andy Goldsworthy kindly left us a 'rock rainbow' as part of his Folds Series of artworks just outside our village. Our adventure began with visiting the 'rock rainbow' as it had asked us to save it from it's rocky form and send it back into the sky. Our camp set, we unfolded our wishes and put them together into a map which showed us Chinese lanterns to write and draw the wishes on. That evening we sent the rainbow wishes into the sky across Morecambe Bay, and were treated by a strange white lion (called Alan, alledgedly Aslan's brother) who gave us thank you gifts. The next day, as we drove home, a true rainbow appeared over Ingleborough mountain, as if I'd planned it.....
Magic Camp in Ingleton: Ingle means 'fire' so living in Ingleton we clearly needed a fire celebration. Taking advantage of friends' amazing back garden on the foothills of Ingleborough, we made fire, painted the sky with fireworks, drew pictures with sparklers and hunted for 'fire rocks spat out by the mountain. If we found all the rocks and put them in the cauldron they magically became piles of marshmallows for toasting.
Magic Camp at Red Bank Farm: Andy Goldsworthy kindly left us a 'rock rainbow' as part of his Folds Series of artworks just outside our village. Our adventure began with visiting the 'rock rainbow' as it had asked us to save it from it's rocky form and send it back into the sky. Our camp set, we unfolded our wishes and put them together into a map which showed us Chinese lanterns to write and draw the wishes on. That evening we sent the rainbow wishes into the sky across Morecambe Bay, and were treated by a strange white lion (called Alan, alledgedly Aslan's brother) who gave us thank you gifts. The next day, as we drove home, a true rainbow appeared over Ingleborough mountain, as if I'd planned it.....