Sunday, 28 December 2014

Jaisalmer


Rooftop view of the hill fort 


Inside the ramparts

Laundry





Dawn in the square

Saturday, 20 December 2014

India, Delhi and Jaipur

Jantar MantarAnimist shrine Allan Stein's modernist take on a Jaali. 
'Muhammad, the prophet and Abu Bakr hid in a cave for three days, a spider's web preventing their being found.'

Sweet potato and lime


Animist shrine 

The ruined city palace through a crack in the gate

Jantar Mantar astrolabe


A hole in the net at Albert Hall 

One of two dreams of Jain's mother before his birth

The second dream

The hammam ceiling at Amber Fort

Amber fort renos

In the hammam

Tourists at the Diwan

Sunday, 9 February 2014

Nepal 2013

Spent three glorious weeks in Nepal. It had been 17 years since we last set foot there.



View of Langtang from the Tamang trail

Gotjung

Gotlung

Suspension bridge over the Bhote Kosi

Chicken in a bag in Golphu Bhanjyang

Chorten on the trail


Mani stones where we said a prayer and left stones for Susan and Dad

Lunch at Therapati 3600 M

Bhaktapur

Monday, 6 August 2012

Documenta


The final chapter was a field trip to Documenta. These are just the tip of the iceberg of Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev's very well curated show of the zeitgeist
 
 
“I Need Some Meaning I Can Memorise (The Invisible Pull),” Ryan Gander

Khaled Hourani and Rashid Masharawi's 'Picasso in Palestine', a prisoner's version in coffee with video doc reflected
Hannah Ryggen, notice Mussolini getting a spear in the head. When is was exhibited in a world fair years ago the corner was folded down over the offending corner
Boetti
Michael Rakowitz, to my mind one of the best installations in the show. Banned or destroyed books carved from stone collected at the destroyed Baniyan Buddhas, vitrines with burned objects from the bombed out Fridericium came together in a polyvalent critique of the wages of war.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the audience
Kassel through dirty window
J in Kentridge's installation
William Kentridge, another of the highlights


Stuart Ringholt
Sanya Ivekovic's 'The Donkey, my hero', among them Steve Biko and Ahmed Basiony

Zanele Muholi

Geoffry Farmer's 'Leaves of Grass'
Details




Nedko Solakov (After)
Before as child star


Nedko as Knight Rockstar
David Link, early computer generated love letters


   
William Kentridge finale