In the wake, John Constable 1821. [Link] [Link] [Link] [Link] [Link] Bathing House, Howick Estate, Northumberland UK. Eighteenth-century cottage, remodeled 1813-15.
atmospheres
Archaeological Theatre
Visiting the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen [Link]. What an experience of archaeological theatre! [Link] I discovered the work of Danish neo-classical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770 – 1844) at the Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge in 1977, when its collection of plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture was still housed in my college…
Cloud study with monument
In the wake, John Constable 1821. [Link] [Link] [Link] [Link] Storebaelt Bridge. Ambient rhetoric — commentary to come.
Over your cities grass will grow
Sensitive light-touch upcycling of an old locomotive works. Curated rewilding and planting for biodiversity. Working with the past, bridging past and present. Designing landscapes with sensitivity to ecosystem. Manifestations of an archaeological sensibility and acting-with nature [Link]. The opening in 1998 of the bridge across the Storebaelt, connecting the two biggest islands in Denmark, brought…
Cloud Study
Nyborg Strand, Denmark. With monument, warship, buoy, lens flare. In the wake, John Constable 1821. [Link] [Link] [Link]
Cloud study
Nyborg fjord, Denmark. With monument (Kloppers refinery), ship (bulk carrier), vapor trail (outgoing CPH). In the wake, John Constable 1821. [Link] [Link]