This period is dominated by my trip to South America.
But, it is Winter there!!
Snow in Mendoza. A shock.
I am going there for a course and to perform in a local Art Gallery..
But, my trip is a first a bit hectic: delayed flights and then they lose my bag!!!
Time to reconnect with Buenos Aires. Cake on the River!!!
Also, I relax in the Winter sun in my usual accommodation – a joy!:
Then, my bag turns up!! After many, many calls.
We are in Lunlunta: Dining room and corridor:
The Team:
So, here we are – one octave old:
Guitars!!!
Me doing Qi gong with some of them.
The performance itself turns out to be quite an event. Many people arrive – more than the venue can accommodate. They shut the doors but there is ‘rioting’ outside. Not seen anything like this since Beatlemania!!!
Soon, I am back on the plane – next stop Brazil – make sure of my bag this time!!!:
A really nice expo. on Andy Warhol at the local museum. They offer a good range of his work:
Then, up into the mountains. My accommodation and locale:
Gourmet food, I am treated to.
Into the local village. Very picturesque:
And local goodies:
Time to take time in the local cafes as well:
Back home – with bag! – and preparing for September. There is a reunion of the staff from the school I worked in in London. Some of these people, I have not seen since I left in 1989. Me as a language teacher in 1986:
It is Lammas: first stirrings of the dark: death and rebirth, harvest.
I celebrate with fire.
On a pagan theme I also watch that epic of occult British film-making – The Wicker Man!!!
I also see Red at the National Theatre a story about Mark Rothko’s – whose art I have lone since admired:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDxD8Z7btzM
I recommend the Seagram Restaurant murals.
I have been reading Lilian Hellman’s Pentimento:
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens, it is possible in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on the open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter ‘repented’, changes his mind. Perhaps it is as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.
An analogy for life (!?)
Also, listening to some amazing Brazilian guitar playing – of course!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aED9l_fCe6M&list=OLAK5uy_mPX6CZ72uC0AjGQVm4J2IBbPgIc5NGYVE