Monthly Archives: October 2016

Fenscape 9

7.30 am today on the path along the Great Ouse from the Lazy Otter.  Little light in the sky: birds overhead are ghostly flickering shapes; a murmuration of starlings is a shifting smoky smudge in the distance.  I take a … Continue reading

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Fenscape 8

I said in Fenscape 7 that ‘the scale of the Fens shrinks all human activity’.  There is an internal contradiction in this: the Fens are an entirely artificial landscape created by the ingenuity of drainage engineers and farmers over several … Continue reading

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Traces and Signs

remains /ri’maynz/ n pl 1 a remaining part or trace sign /sien/ n 6a something material or external that stands for or signifies something spiritual symbol /’simbl/ n 1 something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of … Continue reading

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Fenscape 7

A flight of grey lag geese wheels noisily overhead; eight gothic cormorants take off in fright from the Cam.  Early morning walks reveal the delights of a waking world.  Kingfishers skim gaudily over the water, swans are serene and chattering … Continue reading

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Fruitful Tree

Nature is marvellous in its beauty and fecundity.  It is also extraordinary in its wastefulness: myriad offspring are produced in the expectation that only a few will survive to maturity; wasteful, but evolution has made it a strategy that works.  … Continue reading

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Wimpole Hall – Public Art

“A specially-commissioned contemporary artwork by NEON, an award-winning design practice that seeks to explore new territories between architecture, design and art. Inspired by Brown’s designed landscape as a series of picturesque views, or scenes, NEON invites us to follow in … Continue reading

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Yoanna Prodanova, cellist

U3A Music Club today at the Friends Meeting House, Cambridge.  The Morisot Piano Trio played a programme, ‘Aimez-vous Brahams’, comprising the Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op.99 and the Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op. 8. Mihai … Continue reading

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Fenscape 6

I don’t think I’ve seen a trace of a hut underneath the bank of the River Ouse before.   I guess it has been by the river for a long time because it has collapsed and the corrugated iron hast … Continue reading

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Unilever House

Lovers of Marmite and Hellmann’s Mayonnaise probably knew little, and cared less, about Unilever until the spat with Tesco over pricing threatened to remove their favourites from the supermarket’s shelves.  Equally, users of Blackfriars Station would be unlikely to associate … Continue reading

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Pizza Delivery

London, global city, cultural capital, city of dreams, city of opportunity.  Openings galore for the brightest and best – from across Europe for the time being – good pay, and even internships are rewarded with prospects.  Collecting the lunchtime pizzas?  … Continue reading

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Georgia O’Keeffe

To see Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition at Tate Modern yesterday.  Illuminating show exploring all her work and revealing that there is so much more to it than the brilliant, but over familiar, flowers.  A big show too – the thirteen rooms … Continue reading

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Fenscape 5

Inspired by the SBH blog to revisit this image.  Not sure it works. Photo: Beach Ditch, Landbeach – Cottenham, Cambs 161010

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Fenscape 4

Early morning walk on the Fen edge between Landbeach and Cottenham.  Blue, silver and gold in the skies.  Grey lags honking nervously on the stubble; pheasants clattering and whirring out of hedges.  Splashes followed by silent gentle ripples in the … Continue reading

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Mannequin Photo Book

I’m making progress with my photo book of mannequins.  Following a short introduction, the first sections covering the Unreal and Ideal, Abstraction, Gender & Race, Agalmatophilia, Automatonophobia, Mannequin Art and Live Mannequins are almost complete, except for an additional picture … Continue reading

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Fenscape 3 Cottenham

Photo: Early morning fen edge towards Cottenham, Cambs, 1st October 2016

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