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Ocean View, Portofino, Italy
Interesting and useful on a deep level. Somehow I worry about the Nash painting here which suggests such a profound trauma. The title is profoundly ironic and suggests that some conditions are so harsh that only huge cooperative efforts can lead to real recovery.
- Starting Again Takes Courage.
New Seascape – Roy Lichtenstein.1966. Wikioo.
“No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.”
Buddha
“It is not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
2023: What does New Year mean for us? New Year…..New Beginnings…… Perhaps it puts us in mind of resetting our ways of being andways of thinking and makes us thinkabout aspects of ourselves and our lives that might need to change.
Buddha assures us that, even if we have had a hard time, if things have failed for us, we can always start again. Estés points out, however, that this is not always easy, that we can become stuck and in limbo in relation to old patterns of behaviour and it is this ‘reluctance to begin again that causes us to…
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Just found the lovely German text at https://hymnary.org/text/christum_wir_sollen_loben_schon
“Bach based his chorale Christum wir sollen loben schon – part of his cantata of the same name, BWV 121 – on a hymn by Martin Luther from 1524. This was in turn based on the Latin hymn A solis ortus cardine, by Caelius Sedulius from ca 450. For this recording soprano Viola Blache made a personal version, based on Bach, Luther and the original hymn. The decor is Vermeer’s Milkmaid who steps out of her frame after an age-long lockdown and seems almost to be singing to herself. The chorale text refers loosely to the painting. Recorded for the project All of Bach on 1 October 2020 at De Hallen Studio’s, Amsterdam (video production) and on 4 June 2021 at Philarmonie, Haarlem (music production). If you want to help…
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A fascinating piece of industrial archaeology as well as a great map and sketch. Impressive!
What an amazing building! It presides over a corner of Shadwell Basin, surrounded by a high wall. I spotted it on a long weekend run, and went back later to sketch it.
What’s a Hydraulic Power Station? Well, in the late nineteenth century, London’s industry needed a way to exert mechanical force: to operate a printing press for example, or to raise heavy weights, for cranes and metal forming. Also, passenger lifts had been invented, and building engineers needed a way to exert force to operate the lift. One way would be to have a steam engine on site. This wasn’t always practical. Steam engines are noisy and dirty and you don’t want one next to your desirable residence, or even cluttering up your dockyard. So here’s the next idea: instead of lots of little steam…
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Interesting- especially to read about your personal response to the novel.
I’ve come to love Barbara Comyns over the past few years, a true English eccentric with a very particular style. Her novels have a strange, slightly off-kilter feel, frequently blending surreal imagery and touches of dark, deadpan humour with the harsh realities of life. There’s often a sadness to them too, a sense of poignancy or melancholy running through the text. First published in 1967, A Touch of Mistletoe is very much in this vein. Like some of Comyns’ earlier fiction, it feels semi-autobiographical in nature, rich in episodes and scenes that seem inspired by real-life experiences.
The novel is narrated by Victoria Green, who we follow from adolescence in the 1920s to middle age in the late ‘50s. In some respects, one could describe it as a sort of coming-of-age story as the narrative subtly explores the choices many single women faced in the mid-20th century. More specifically…
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Crimson Forest, Hungary
Lovely!!
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New Year 2023
Brilliant, talented and most industrious!!
Happy New Year!
I make New Year cards most years to send to friends and family. In recent years they have been prints: woodcuts or linocuts. This year it was a collage. My card this year is made of marbled paper and a kinetic band of people. The people are printed from carved rubber stamps. The concept was to show “through it all together”: people going under and over and through.
Here is a short video to show how the centre band moves:
Here are the rubber stamps which made the people and the dogs. I cut them from a large pencil eraser.
Here are some snaps of work in progress.
The marbled paper is from a pack of offcuts from the Wyvern Bindery. There are several different designs. The white card is…
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