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Missing Notes Left in Space

October 6, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Libran Writer posted earlier this year about a visit to see an exhibition in Margate. The post was ten months ago, which seems almost as hard to believe as that the visit itself had occurred exactly a year before. Since I’m married to Libran Writer, you won’t be surprised to learn that I was there too. We had stumbled into the show the day before the official opening so we had the place pretty much to ourselves. What a treat that was.

Katie Paterson’s ‘Totality’ and me near a grand piano in Margate 2019.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: antony gormley, art, beethoven, jmw turner, katie paterson, libran writer, margate, Olafur Eliasson, rene magritte, Tate Modern, travel, turner contemporary

Colour Lives

June 1, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Brown and green are shades rather than hues. You know this because you don’t see them in rainbows. Look, here’s a selection of some of my rainbows to remind you.

  • Rainbow in Sutton 2018
  • Rainbow in Iceland 2017
  • Bright Rainbow 2015
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, david nahmad, édouard manet, impressionists, kassia st clair, pierre bonnard, rainbows, Tate Modern, travel, wh perkin

Finite Eternity

May 10, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We once came across a Bourgeois spider, lurking in the old turbine hall of the then new Tate Modern. Maman fascinated and appalled me in equal measure. My scientific self enjoyed the majesty of the vision that re-created her, triumphantly huge in steel. My male, meritocratic self had visions of limited purposes, sacrifice and cannibalism. And yet Maman spoke to me of the fight for life and a guarantee of a future borne in her egg sac, much as when Yeats wrote of rebellion and nationhood in Easter 1916, ‘A terrible beauty is born.’

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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, bruce nauman, edvard grieg, erik satie, jean-jacques rousseau, louise bourgeois, music, pablo picasso, piccadilly, poetry, rose finn-kelcey, tate britain, Tate Modern, vincent van gogh, warren mailley-smith, wb yeats, william blake

1970 or 2020

March 24, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

24 March 2020 – 13:57 GMT – 13°C Mostly Cloudy – Co. Dublin, Ireland

I’m struggling to understand the uneven and unfair responses of global governments to the covidgency.  Shoulder-to-shoulder prayer meetings in India and Bangladesh versus arresting curfew breakers in Macedonia versus Belarus selling TV rights for its continuing football games. Not enough ventilators in Lombardy, among the richest places on earth, a team in Bray just eight kilometres from me have an Open Source Ventilator project trying to coordinate mass production of ventilators on not-for-profit basis. When the symptoms are treated, we must address the cause. Could that really be related to deforestation?

19,000 deaths.

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Filed Under: ManRom2021 Tagged With: biafra, Olafur Eliasson, photos, Tate Modern, ventilators, volcano

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