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…

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 with monument

North Sea – Storebaelt Bridge. After John Constable’s cloud studies 1821. Series. Archaeographic notes An archaeologist might come upon an unexpected discovery. A photographer judges when to release a shutter on a moment before the camera. Kairos is a key in archaeological and photographic engagement and mediation — kairos is actuality, the moment when things…