Happy sad
January 9, 2012Unreality
January 8, 2012
Titan as viewed from Saturn probe Cassini, shown with a false spectral overlay.
Flag Day
January 1, 2012
Rainy Days
December 30, 2011
“I don’t resent being a female painter. I don’t exploit it. I paint” – Helen Frankenthaler 1928-2011
It feels like it’s been raining for days. The moors are truly sepulchral in this light. Sometimes you find a song that sums up the way you feel, or a poem, or just sometimes it’s a painting. I knew I recognised the name from my father’s collection of art books, I could instinctively describe the pictures without having seen them for years. When Brian Sewell said “there’s never been a great woman artist” he was a many thousand times wrong.
Hope
December 18, 2011“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” – Vaclav Havel 1936 – 2011
Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares
December 3, 2011This was used in the haunting film “Jesus of Montreal” to accompany the walking on water scene, a totally secular song by a Bulgarian choir from the 1970s that seems entirely transcendant.
Children watching Tacita Dean’s Film at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall
December 1, 2011
Starfish and the Brinicle
November 26, 2011This has to be one of the most beautiful and yet most disturbing pieces of footage I’ve seen.
Persimmon
November 12, 2011
More than ever
October 7, 2011“Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.” – John Berger
