some LANDSCAPES

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Stepping Stones

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I've been reading the late Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney .  Among the interesting things I ...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Even Over Eden

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Exhibition booklet showing a detail from Adam Pynacker, Landscape with Sportsmen and Game , 1665 The Mall Galleries have a new exhibi...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Dark mires where only priests should wade

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The Ankerwycke Yew, Berkshire Said to be the site of Henry VIII's first liaisons with Anne Boleyn    Amongst the praise heaped on...
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Saturday, January 05, 2013

Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park

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Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River (1942) Source: Wikimedia Commons This image was included on t he Voyager Spacecraft Gold ...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Far in the wild His steps were driven

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 William Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858 (1858-60) The development of landscape art in the margins of Ita...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

The forest gloom got heavier and the forest-silence deeper

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Earlier this year I read The Hobbit to my young sons and, coming to the book again as an adult, I was impressed by the way the landscape is ...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Landscapes surge into consciousness

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(1) from Thomas Köner's Novaya Zemlya This is my third annual survey of landscape music, following an initial list covering 2010 ...
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Thursday, December 06, 2012

Abundant brooks wandering over the snow white sands

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'Its plains are spacious, its hills are pleasantly situated, adapted for superior tillage, and its mountains are admirably calculated ...
Saturday, December 01, 2012

Field Notes

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Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton have kindly sent me a copy of Field Notes , a compilation of their place-poems . The first section ...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

A Wall is a Path

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  We will soon learn whether Paul Noble has won this year's Turner Prize.  The landscapes he has been drawing for the last two decade...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Ice welding land to sea

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'Millenial bergs from the glaciers, morbid, silent except for waves breaking on their flanks, the deceiving sound of shoreline where ...
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Friday, November 09, 2012

Rive Oriental du Nil

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'He would like to travel, if he could, stretched out on a sofa and not stirring, watching landscapes, ruins and cities pass before him ...
Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Tongues in trees

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I was at the Barbican yesterday for Calixto Bieito's Forests , a World Shakespeare Festival production composed from fragments of S...
Friday, November 02, 2012

Autumn colours on the Qiao and Hua mountains

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Last year I wrote about one of James Elkins' Art Seminar Series, Landscape Theory , and I'm turning now to one of his other rece...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Deep South

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‘I look for it always, the thick, vespertine gloaming that douses the day’s heat. When it comes, the landscape grows soft and vague, as i...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Dew-Drenched Furze

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On my morning walks to the Underground this week I have passed front gardens strewn with delicate dewy cobwebs, as you can see from the p...
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Friday, October 19, 2012

Wildtrack

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To the ICA last night for the London Film Festival Screening of Pat Collins' film Silence .  Like the film I saw at last year's ...
Friday, October 12, 2012

By the Open Sea

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A strange work of land art avant la lettre is created in August Strindberg 's extraordinary novel By the Open Sea (1889).  Although ...
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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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