Riverside audio trail

The trail starts at Hertford Museum. If you’re joining part-way through, or listening from home, start with track 1 for an introduction.

Track 4 Audio Transcript

I hated talking at you, mindless hesitant prattling, pointless questions. Sometimes you opened your mouth like a fish rising up for a fly, like reaching for a book on a shelf thats too high but no words came, just breathing.  I brought you my sketchbook because I couldn’t stand the silence, I can admit that now. I wrote down self serving questions like ‘are you okay?’ And you read them. You where not okay, we both knew that, and it quickly became clear that written language was not how we could communicate so I changed my question. ‘Can you draw a river?’