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In Bruges

We took the train to Bruges for a day. It’s a beautiful city with scarcely a modern structure to interrupt the ancient lines. However it was absolutely rotten with tourists dawdling and gawking about, making many of the streets impassable and forcing one into pathetic tourist impostures oneself. As a friend of mine from Antwerp commented, “nobody from Belgium goes to Bruges – it’s for tourists.” Or, as Yogi Berra is reported to have said, “nobody goes there anymore – it’s too crowded.”

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Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul

Sint-Petrus-en-Paulus Kerk van Oostende

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Having a Blast with Buddha at the Beach

More of what we saw along the boardwalk (only it was really just paved) in Ostend. Click any image above to see them all full sized (if you’re seeing this in email you may need to click the post title, above, first for this to work).

Across the Street

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Parc du Bruxelles. There were a bunch of these whimsical

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Brussels

Memorial to Pieter Bruegel the Elder at the Church of Our Lady of the Chapel

Wearing a Mask Mask

The mask is by Gillian Wearing (you see what I did there?). You can see the mask on the mask face, the shadow of the mask behind, and the image of the sculpture on the phone of the viewer in front. It’s all very meta.

St Ives, continued

St Ives is a charming, if tourist-crowded, town of beautiful alleys and surprise views. We also visited a number of galleries and open artists studios and had a few good conversations with working artists about their work, always inspiring. If viewing in email, click the post title to click into the images and see them larger.

Dorset to Devon

We started the day at a Donkey sanctuary in Sidmouth with a renowned breakfast restaurant benefiting the donkeys.

Next, we drove on to Exeter, a cathedral town. Click any of the images below to enlarge them and see the captions.

Nothing Like the Sun

Upon leaving the train station in Margate we came upon this circle of stones with poems created from the contributions of school children.

Cat on a Cool Tile Roof

Beldarians

Before this sculpture garden of spinning cones was erected, we had the opportunity to bang dyes with hammers into the sheets of brass that they’re constructed from.

Lightboxes

As mentioned in the last post, these are some glass sculptures outside the Lightbox in Woking. I took photographs through them of my classmate, Reeve (who kindly agreed), and myself on the evening of our private viewing of The Gathering (see the Exhibition page for more info.)

Glass

On 31st January we held a private viewing of our UCA Photography MFA student work, The Gathering (you can see information about it now on the Exhibitions page). On the way out, in the evening, I stopped to photograph these glass sculptures with variable colored lighting in the entrance park. I couldn’t find any information about them.