some LANDSCAPES
Sunday, April 21, 2024
The Fountain of Arethusa
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There is sweet music in that pine tree's whisper... - Theocritus, Idyll 1 , trans. Anthony Verity Last week I was in Syracuse, the hom...
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
A Tale of the Wind
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Mentioning Bert Haanstra, a Dutch documentary maker, in my last post reminded me of the great Joris Ivens. I referred to him back in 2008 wh...
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Mirror of Holland
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This morning I walked along our local canal, with bright sunny weather creating reflections of the barges and bridges, the buildings of Hoxt...
Friday, March 15, 2024
The purple glow of evening
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Carl Gustav Carus, Woman on a Balcony , 1824 (used as the cover for OUP edition of The Mysteries of Udolpho ). The Mysteries of Udolpho is o...
Saturday, February 03, 2024
Cloud tracks and tide-ripples
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Last weekend I went to Cambridge to see the Kettle's Yard exhibition Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia and Friends. Laura Cumming wrote...
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Radical Landscapes
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Back in 2022 Tate Liverpool held an exhibition of 'Radical Landscapes'. I didn't make the effort to go because it sounded like I...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Renamed City
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Talking this weekend with my teenage son about holiday ideas, we agreed that the place we would both most like to visit is St. Petersburg. I...
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