tuscanysThe next village is a lovely idea – a line from Kafka, and people are asked to respond to it in various ways. Keith Ridgway asked me to get involved and I thought that doing something with audio would be good. Then I realised that there was something I had already done in Italy on [...]
Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. One of his great works, the notebook called the Codex Leicester, is on display in Dublin at the moment. I went along to re-acquaint myself with a man I haven’t really considered since school, and I found myself in [...]
Autumn mists in the Crete Senesi are a photographer’s dream. Courtesy of Ryanair, I went back to my beloved southern Tuscany for a few days to touch base with all my friends there. It still feels like home.
Back in Dublin, I still have to figure out what I want to photograph here. Nothing seems to [...]
My last weekend here was a bit of a blur. The nearby town of Montisi has a jousting tournament, the centrepiece of a week-long festival. The town is divided into four contradas, or quadrants, Piazza, San Martin, Torre and Castello, and competition between each is intense. The whole town decks itself out in contrada [...]
I’m sleeping with Harry for a fortnight. Harry, a big slob of a labrador, and his old honey-coloured allsorts friend Zig, who has arthritis, is deaf as a post, and can’t even jump on the bed, are my companions while I house-sit for the next fourteen days. I’ve never had a dog. I’ve never [...]
Breathless.
This is five minutes or so on cycling home on my Dahon Cadenza.
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Sheppard’s Bush is the name some of us here give to the Bosco della Ragnaia, which has been husbanded by the American Sheppard Craige for many years now. He’s extending it into virgin grassland now, and the vision it takes to create such [...]
This is where a tourism gimmick works beautifully, and I’m happy to do the necessary for this stunningly beautiful area, in particular le Crete Senesi. On 12th November, a gathering of people connected to the arts, who were non-resident in this area, (although the criteria do seem a bit fuzzy), were invited to attend a [...]
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