Marrakech road
Archive for the 'Restless' Category
Portugal
Dogs digging holes | Sand like sugar | Empty beaches and wind whipping faces | Surfers hidden by breaking waves | Dirt tracks for miles | Barbecued robalho and dourada with fresh boiled vegetables and olive oil | Old guy shuffles in with a box of his fresh-picked veg | Reading the first book I’ve finished in three years | Finding the hard sand to run on | Home-fried fresh squid | Discovering sugar-free Lacasitos of pure cocoa | Hammering the hire car on miles of pot holes | Electrocuting flies | Waking up late | Sweeping up sand | Dozing on the beach | Running two miles at dusk to an empty, sandy cove |That modernist house on the hill | Watching my freckles merge into a giant chocolate smudge across my face | Watching my mosquito bites merge into a giant pizza on my legs | Riding across sandy tracks with the dogs alongside | Nightcaps on a sail boat and the offer of a four-day sail to Madeira | Hunting for snakes | Eating toast and peanut butter | Boiled eggs every day | Sniffing the dog | Watching slate crumble from the cliffs and perfect spitting barrels and green waves
Aquaether
My kind of website. I would say a breath of fresh air, but…
On the written road
Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road in three weeks on one continuous stream of paper, made by taping together teletype tracing paper. Radio 4.
Dad’s Moon sculpture
Thanks Aegir.
Notes from Tate Modern
Jackson Pollock: His work appears to be about chaos but is actually about rhythm and order. Fractals and rhythms of the natural world.
Alberto Giacometti: His work appears to be about distortion, but that distortion reinforces how things should be for us.. We distort things so that we understand how things actually are.
Lucia Fontana: Created holes in canvasses – this was period of time obsessed with tracing the artist’s movements on the canvas. “Making a hole broke the space of the canvas as if to say after this, we are free to do what we like.”
Mark Rothko: A statement about bravery. Seeming nothingness replacing what has gone before, refining it. That large space creates absorbency for the viewer. Abstract expressionists are about a feeling and a space more than a concept or literalism.
Juan Munoz: Take known concepts and disturb them. Bricked-up window, and a bannister that runs too close to the wall.
Ask why to everything to understand it.
Small grey men laughing: Why small? Why grey? Why men? Why laughing?
