still life

North Shore

Once down to the beach we ran across all manner of things. Click any image below to see larger.

Seaweed

Clambering down from the Heugh we walked the rocky shore and I shot some seaweed still lifes.

Dry Salvages

…The pools where it offers to our curiosity
The more delicate algae and the sea anemone.
It tosses up our losses, the torn seine…
– from T S Eliot’s Four Quartets (The Dry Salvages).

Finally, we made it off the Causeway and on to the Holy Island, proper. We stopped in a crowded coffee shop to warm up and eventually the couple sitting at the table in front of this window left and I was able to snap this still life.

Darkness in the Afternoon

Bathroom Humour

On the left, Duchamp’s famous urinal at the Tate Modern in its protective case. On the right, some comedian signed the toilet seat cover in the men’s room stall at the Whitechapel Gallery in East London.

Morning Light

Several mornings in a row, the morning sunlight flooding into the bedroom and bouncing off a mirror, glowed radiantly into the hallway.

Barbara Kruger

Our next stop was the Serpentine Gallery for the Barbara Kruger show, Thinking of ~~You~~. I Mean Me. I Mean You, which I had previously seen at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 (and here, and here). While this exhibit was necessarily much smaller than in Chicago it had also been greatly updated and made more use of video and LEDs (see a few shots below, click them to enlarge).

Gallery Space

The Goodman Gallery provided an opportunity to continue my collection of big, open, white gallery spaces. See more below (click pictures to enlarge).

Rusty Pail on the Tracks

Criminal Reflections

A window in a chapel at the Farnham Cemetery with a beautiful flower, a warning, and my reflection.

Webbed, Bedewed Moss

Sunlight on Window

Dusty Screen

When the sunlight hits your screen at an oblique angle – a nasty shock – time to clean!

Winchester Cathedral

Near the end of December we visited Winchester Cathedral on a rainy day. Click any of the images to see them full-size.

Chawton House Windows

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.

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