Cee Neuner: This week my black and white challenge topic is Carvings, sculptures and Statues. I hope you have FUN with this challenge.
Contemporary Ceramics Centre, Great Russell Street, London
Garden Ornament on my porch
Tag: art
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My first introduction to the work of the late Santi Bose was at a gallery in Manila called Sining Kamalig. That’s where I saw the Blue Room. I begged my parents to give me the painting for my seventeenth birthday.
A few years later — surprise, surprise! — they bought the companion painting, the White Room, for me. I brought both paintings to California with me. They are among my most treasured possessions.
mixed media, early Santi Bose. Posting for Travel with Intent’s Six Word Saturday
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It appears self’s books have been available on kindle for a few years. She never knew!
Two of the four:
The cover of The Lost Language is a detail of a painting by the late, great Filipino artist Santiago Bose.
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Here’s how Cee Neuner introduces the challenge:
- This week our topic is Legs and Feet. If you are wondering, yes, shoes on feet count for this challenge. I so hope you have some fun with this topic.
Last June, self saw a fabulous exhibit at the Legion of Honor: Guo Pei, Coutoure Fantasy.
Gold was everywhere! Even on legs and feet! For example:
Self is in love with the gold booties.
Stay tuned.
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One of self’s must-see stops whenever she is in Dublin is St. Stephen’s Green. She loves this park and its meandering paths, its leafy spaces.
She was in Dublin in late November, when the trees were turning. Here is Edward Delaney’s Famine Memorial. More information about the artist here.
Posting for Travel with Intent’s Six-Word Saturday.
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It’s been a hectic two days of hard traveling, but now self is almost to her destination, and she only has to get on the bus to Monaghan tomorrow.
Here’s her latest installment for Life of B’s November Squares Challenge: Walking Squares.
Dublin is warm! And sunny! Perfect walking weather. From her Airbnb on Aungier Road, she walked to the Chester Beatty Museum (in Dublin Castle), which is a jewel of a museum, with the most amazing collection of ancient texts, all compiled by one man, Chester Beatty, who deserves to be a household name. She spent about three hours there (10 a.m. to 1 p.m.) today. The museum has a café/restaurant (called, appropriately, The Silk Road), where you can take a break and eat a wide variety of hot food and/or pastries/salads/cakes/coffee.
The Chester Beatty is a small museum (only 1 % of the permanent collection is on display at any one time) but this is the Holy Grail of book collectors. If you can, take a docent tour. They’re 5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and 11:30 a.m. on Saturdays. There are also excellent downloadable audio tours (free)
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It’s been a while since self joined this challenge, hosted by Mama Cormier.
Mama Cormier’s trios this week include a fun trio of scarecrows in front of an ice cream store. Self’s is a picture of three young people looking at Israeli artist Micha Ullman’s The Empty Library, an art installation on “one of the many sites of the Nazi book burnings in 1933.” Read more about the memorial in the caption below. The picture was part of an exhibit she saw at the San Francisco Public Library last month.
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Whenever self feels in need of getting away, she goes to Golden Gate Park. It is 30 miles north, but being there always nourishes her spirit. She visits Stow Lake and sees whatever’s on at the de Young.
Last June, when she took these pictures, she dropped by to see the Alice Neel exhibit (fantastic!)
Posting for Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere Challenge.
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Yesterday, Sunday, self left bright and early for Golden Gate Park. She’d made a reservation to see the Ramses the Great exhibit. While walking from her car to the museum, she passed a stand of gorgeous yellow abutilon and just had to stop and take a picture.
Self has two different kinds of abutilon in her garden: an anemone pink, and a variegated orange. This is the first yellow abutilon she’s ever seen. So pretty!
Posting for Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day.
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When self travels, she loves taking candid pictures of complete strangers. She rarely takes pictures of monuments — not unless there are strangers walking in front of them. She is really interested in people-watching, most of all.
Last June, she was at the Raphael exhibit at London’s National Gallery (what a fantastic exhibit). Here are her candids (Thank you, Brashley Photography, for hosting the Mid-Week Monochrome Challenge):
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