some LANDSCAPES

Sunday, January 18, 2026

Deposition

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  Lucy Raven, Deposition, Dam Breach, 16, 2024 This picture, which I saw yesterday at the Lisson Gallery in London, appears to show a mount...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Mimic Pond

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This is a photograph I took on Boxing Day of Mounts Pond on Blackheath. The small mound with trees behind it is now called Whitfield Mount a...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

End of the Glacier, Upper Grindelwald

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I recently read this lovely new book about the glacier pictures of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. I've written about these before: the 1949 tr...
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Friday, November 21, 2025

Twenty Years of Some Landscapes

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Richard Long, Ten Days Walking and Sleeping on Natural Ground (1986) - one of three screenprints.  Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of thi...
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Saturday, November 15, 2025

Landscape lunettes in the Grand Master's Palace

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Just a brief post this time, which I suspect is of mainly personal interest... Last week my wife was presenting at a human rights law meetin...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Fireworks in the Himalayas

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I was curious to see the White Cube's Cai Guo-Qiang exhibition but conflicted after the recent controversy surrounding his firework per...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Le voyage vertical

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Tatiana TrouvĂ©, Le voyage vertical , 2022 from the series  Les dessouvenirs The Pinault Collection is currently hosting a major retrospectiv...
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This blog explores landscape through the arts: painting, installation, photography, literature, music, film... I've also on occasion covered the creation or alteration of landscapes by architects, artists and garden designers. For the first year I did several short entries each week; since then I have reduced the frequency and some posts are a bit longer. In naming this site 'Some Landscapes' initially I just saw it as a few modest notes and didn't know if I'd keep it up. Of course it will always only cover 'some' landscapes, even though I occasionally like to think of it as an expanding cultural gazetteer. There are some maps and a chronology of posts that I did a while back but the best way of exploring is through the search function, labels or just browsing old posts. I started writing this blog using the name 'Plinius' (a little tribute to the younger and older Plinys) and am now rather attached to it as a 'nom de blog'. Comments are very welcome but are moderated to prevent spam. I used to post landscape stuff on Twitter but now use Bluesky: @andrew-ray.bsky.social.
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