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Stave Church

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Built circa 1200, at the Norsk Folksmuseum. Beautiful carvings round the doors and a delicate last supper painting behind the altar.

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15 Sunsets

All taken on the move with my Galaxy S.  Many out of train windows.

Mike Nelson

Wow.

That’s 408 tonnes of concrete.  All cast and arranged at the Malmö Konsthall.

Article here on the Mousse Magazine site.

New Landscapes

Have been looking at photos of cities today, these two bodies of work stood out.  Eckersley’s ability to shoot night time so it looks like night time is uncanny.

Matthias Hoch – Silver Tower #4, 2009, c-print, 115 x 185 cm

William Eckersley, from ‘Dark City’

Thomas Joshua Cooper

The Swelling of the Sea,The Mouth of the River Tweed at the North Sea, Berwick-Upon-Tweed,

Old Berwickshire, Scotland, 1990

The Celtic World, No. 1-At the End of the World- West-The Atlantic Ocean, The Isle of Lewis, The Western Isles (Outer Hebrides) Scotland, 1994

A Premonitional Work, The English Channel-Looking S.,S.W.-Towards the New World, Beachy Head, The South Downs, Sussex, England, 1997-2001

Encountering your heroes

I took my Dad to see Team GB play Senegal at Old Trafford.  He used to go there every week, stand in the Stretford End and watch george Best, Dennis Law and Bobby Charlton play.  I got to watch Ryan Giggs, one of my heroes play for the first, and probably last, time.  He took the free kick that led to the only GB goal from right in front of me.

The United Trinity: Best, Law, Charlton

Ryan Giggs, Team GB vs Senegal, 19th minute, 26th July 2012, Old Trafford

Munch

Edvard Munch, The Sun, 1912

20 Years

Can’t stop listening to Barton Hollow at the moment. Painfully beautiful.

Simon Fujiwara: Since 1982

“These things, therefore, are memories altered by time, by the tricks that your mind can play on your memories; a muddled interpretation made richer and more interesting by the unintentional combining of personal experience and that which you have been subsequently told.”

A review of Simon Fujiwara’s recent show at Tate St Ives is now up on a-n’s Interface pages click here to see it.

Two things I have seen recently

David Bomberg – The Mud Bath, 1913

Simon Fujiwara – The Mirror Stage (this image 2009, Basel, seen at Tate St Ives 2012)