Despite my aim to take a relaxed approach to London — and really, the aim was to get to Leonora in Sussex — and just do ‘a few things’ I find I have a lot of photos to share with you so how to begin? Rather than my usual temporal arrangement, I decided to begin…
Tag: photography
Helsinki
I was glad to spend the fourth of July mostly in Helsinki having lunch with a friend and buying gifts at the Moomin shop. The ferry over from Tallinn is a smooth trip across the gulf in the early hours. I dozed and watched the waves. Helsinki seemed so cacophonous after a few days in…
Medieval Tallinn
Owls, amber (a green man!), cobblestones, a well, a dragon, a composer, towers, walls, gardens, monks, and Alexander Nevsky’s church! Many more photos to come! Click to embiggen any individual image.
Leonora @ Kumu
The first of the Tallinn posts: I was considering getting down to Tartu to see the Estonian Surrealist exhibit, but there just wasn’t time in my schedule. Oh but wait — posters around town advertising Leonora at the Kumu? Yes, please. Enjoy the vicarious visit to the exhibit, where I made the docent nervous by…
Birmingham Beauties
More anon, but some snaps to see the lovely sights in central Birmingham. Yes, I will give you a lot more on the Victorian Radicals! In fact I will make a reel, I think, And of course more on the Magickal Women Conference — so full of ideas and sparks. And yes, I was on…
V&A Dundee: Kimono
I endeavoured to not take eleventy billion photos and mostly managed. The V&A exhibit is fascinating and overwhelming and gives both the history of the kimono and how it continues to be inovated both within and without Japan — yes, including that Sparks LP, Freddie Mercury, Star Wars, Björk and Alexander McQueen. I am endeavouring…
Chicago & PCA
I am woefully behind on news. I blame losing my job, way of life and all, but at least I am not under literal siege, so there’s that. PCA is always a much anticipated because there are so many people I only see there these days, including the always delightful Miss Wendy, my roommate in…
Deluxe Strange & Norrell FTW
I was delighted — in the mad, action-packed, over-filled days before my departure — that the much anticipated last-I-swear-splurge-before-imminent-unemployment arrived: the Folio Society edition of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Many of you know how much I delight in Susanna Clarke’s novel, but with the addition of illustrations and glorious endpapers by Charles Vess, is…
A Blow on A Bruise
“A blow, expected, repeated, falling upon a bruise with no smart or shock of surprise, only a dull and sickening pain and the doubt whether another like it could be borne.” Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited