The play of sunlight on the walls in the mornings is fantastic. I took to photographing them on film but haven’t yet gotten the processed film scans, so I started taking them with a digital camera as well. Here are the digital ones.
Light Play
Category: Abstract
Alien Road
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Eventually, we made it to the town of Fenwick. This was on the outskirts, about mile 12.
Tate Stairs
I’ve photographed this stair case on previous visits to the Tate Modern – it’s hard not to want to. Here are two more from my late March visit.
Neon
Chryssa was one of the first artists to employ neon for something other than advertising. Here, Study for Gates No. 4.
The Tanks
An alternate take on the vas spaces and sense of awe created by modern art spaces, not totally unlike the cathedrals of yore, here at an area in the Tate Modern called The Tanks.
The Red Moon
Hanging in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, El Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon is immense.
Unreal
From the Barbara Kruger at the Serpentine we walked to the newer Serpentine Gallery North to see Refik Anadol’s Echoes of the Earth, an immersive AI animation based on visual data of coral reefs and rainforests. See more below:
One room featured beanbag chairs in which you could lie and gaze at psychedelic projections on the ceiling. Looks a bit like a Victorian opium den (click any image to see them all larger).
Wall Art
Figure
As a lunch-time exercise in a workshop, I took this suggestive, close-up picture, abstracting it from its context, seen better to the left.
Haegue Yang
An interesting sculptural piece that plays with Sol LeWitt concepts. Click on the images below to see them enlarged.
Subway Burtynsky
This one’s from September 22nd, 2010 and it reminds me of some of the aerial landscapes of Edward Burtynsky.
Bench
Eternal Golden Braid
Temple of Time
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
Wai Yi is in the Fine Art MA program and was on an presentation team with me back in the Fall. Her Temple of Time was an intense experience at the UCA Grad Show in late August. Check her Instagram (@waiyi.chung.art/) to see some reels on the effort that went it to making it that I’ve been following for the last little while.
Wai Yi Chung, Temple of Time (2023)
Immersive installation space.
3.5 × 3.8 × 2.4 m.
Acrylic, enamel, emulsion paint,
MDF board, timber, muslin, one-way mirror film.
Mirrored Globe
The NHS sent me for an annual blood test at the local hospital. Outside I found this sculpture surrounding a mirrored globe in the car park. I’m not sure what it’s about but I had to see what it would look like in a photograph.
Lobby Lights
The lobby of my block of flats has these modernist lights suspended from the 1st floor (that’s the 2nd floor for Americans). I took a couple of pictures of them from the stairwell about halfway between. Both images are in colour but I’ve shifted the colour balance to make them match better.
Musée d’Orsay, continued
Once again, I focused my lens more on the architecture, the geometry, the sub-text of this hallowed space. Click any of the pictures below to see them full-sized.
Farnham to Paris
We got home from Edinburgh on a Friday evening. Monday morning we set off for London and then on to Paris for a few days, where 25-years earlier we had celebrated our honeymoon.
Future Skate-park
Study in abstract blacks and grays at this brand new skate park near the river that seems to be open even as builders continue working around it. The neighboring playground was modelled in chrome yellows and brown. Click on any of the pictures to enlarge them (you may need to click the post title above first if you’re seeing this in email).