March and Spring breaks through:
Almost!! Still the sun strengthens and flowers are a’bloomin
Counter intuitively, I go for a bit of Norwegian gloom – Ibsen, who else?
Brand
Actually a recording from the 1950s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjcbe5KTFlw
Pretty strong stuff: my interest is the fact that Patrick McGoohan plays the main part. He became better known – and more type cast as a spy – in the 1960s. And, of course, wrote, directed and acted lead in the very enigmatic The Prisoner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3LT98uOwck
So, an escape to Cornwall: Beautiful seas:
I also take in some prehistoric stone site. Chun Quoit – 4000 years old.
Then the sunsets:
And of course a visit to my home village Mousehole:
Sacred skies and there is also a magical new moon – on its back:
I go down to the Tate St Ives:
This gallery was originally built to showcase the St Ives artists from the 1930s – 60. There is a clear progression in the development of British Modernism:
Alfred Wallis
Andrew Lanyon
Christopher Wood
Ben Nicholson after Picasso
Marlow Moss who so influenced Mondrian
Terry Frost
I also visit the rather spectacular light installations of Emilija Škarnulyté:
Then, travelling back, I visit one of my favourite places: the Japanese Garden near Newquay.
Most of my reading this month has been academic: I am preparing a chapter on Heidegger:
A bit of pop to lighten the spirits:
Cardigans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLJQnxfC-c&list=RDEMksoZcJHBmj0HZEgvjFX6gg&start_radio=1
I am also still stuck in the Baroque period, especially the Harpsichord music.
Samuel Scheidt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bSk7ydN33A&list=RD7bSk7ydN33A&start_radio=1