Faraday Eunson, Mary

Date:
25/08/2009
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25/08/2009

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Audio file duration: 00:15:16 Format of original recording: wav 44.1 khz 16 bit ZOOM digital recorder.

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Mary Faraday Eunson, who lives in Orkney, travelled to the plinth via bus, ferry, coaches and a sleeper train - quite an ordeal. The journey was all the more difficult as she has suffered from MS for some years, and gets tired very quickly. She is wearing a bright yellow shirt she had designed in Kirkwell, which has 'Kismet' sown on the back. This alludes to both the connection with Horatio Nelson and the fatalistic feeling she had about this project. She talked about the last time she was in Trafalgar Square, on New Year's Eve 1983, when she was pregnant. Pufkin puppet, a puffin, has been brought down to join her. On the plinth, unaided by a microphone, she will be reading The Lady of Shalott, a poem by Tennyson, talk about Peruvian Nazca lines in the desert and write a poem.

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