northsealand

A piece of music inspired by the bleak unstable terrain of the North Norfolk coast, and by the medieval ship graffiti found in some of the churches there. We navigated by stars, charted our course by constellations, carried cargo on the German Ocean from Lubek to Lynn and fished for herring and cod in the cold north waters. We lined up with the church towers as we pulled into port and carved our crude ships on the pillars in the nave - votive scratchings as we listened to long sermons for the saints and the hammer-beam angels to intercede for us, and grant us safe passage. And after the harbour has silted up and after the river has changed its course and after the town has hollowed out and long after we have sailed from these shores our graffiti ships will still be there safe in the haven of our souls