Several weeks ago, we did a crawl of London galleries, starting at the Camden Art Centre and the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, a student show that contained surprisingly mature work. Once again, I was struck by gallery spaces and the installation below (‘Twinkling finale’: 4.3.2‽_-⨅⨼, 2022 by Zayd Menk). Click either image below to see them larger.
On our New Year’s Day walk to Aldershot we came upon this Morrison’s (English supermarket chain) upon arriving in Aldershot – worth-a-shot.
This mysterious life-size statue of a man contemplating the water held in his cupped hands is the work of the celebrated British sculptor Antony Gormley. Sound II, fashioned from lead out of a plaster cast of the artist’s own body, is in the Cathedral Crypt.
A few more images to give a sense of the magnificent scale of the place. Click on any of the images below to see them full size.
Near the end of December we visited Winchester Cathedral on a rainy day. Click any of the images to see them full-size.
We passed this well-known site on our walk around London the 23rd December. To the left, circled in red next to George, is my cousin Sidney, who shimmied up onto the roof that famous day.
During the break our daughter was visiting from the States and we took her to visit Chawton House, erstwhile home of Jane Austen’s brother (the Jane Austen House itself, which we visited last May was closed for the holiday). The house has a fascinating history, which you can read about at the link above, and I took some pictures out the windows which provided framing of the view.
The 12th century castle as seen from Farnham Park.
Given the strong shadow against the building, I thought this might make a good black and white image. But it turns out I prefer the colour version.
A train trip to North London.
There’s more going on here than meets the eye. Below this statue on the plinth is found a plaque reading, “Non Plaudite, Modo Pecuniam Jacite,” which translates from Latin as, “Do not applaud, just throw money,” perhaps a comment on the assumption of the art world into that of commerce so nearby?
I discovered this piece changes in response to the viewer at Atlas Obscura (although I did not witness any change myself).
An example of newish architecture coordinating with its surroundings, perhaps.
