tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59187621634028980002024-03-13T16:08:11.709+00:00i just want to grow potatoes and dreamJoy. Life.emmiejoannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14499482067815685266noreply@blogger.comBlogger285125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-87480165465045893902014-12-25T21:37:00.001+00:002014-12-25T21:37:20.125+00:00Christmas WalkUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-39014097714664040982014-12-24T11:24:00.001+00:002014-12-24T12:05:44.326+00:00Festival of Light at LongleatUtterly beautiful and gloriously festive and fun. Even the light up singing Christmas tree was magical and I was expecting to find it ridiculous. It was over the top wonderful and fantastic. Thank you Longleat folks and thank you to my parents for taking me.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-411128451080012392014-12-24T10:34:00.001+00:002014-12-24T10:34:20.254+00:00Mirrorcity - Hayward GalleryInteresting but I was perhaps not in the mood for art that takes itself very seriously and takes lots of thinking to make sense of which I was too tired to do. Much of it was video art with sad monotone poetic narration. Tim Etchell's work is interesting and text based, playing with perception/reality/humour - one piece was a row of framed description of a city each gradually changing with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-76139708007484437262014-12-24T08:50:00.001+00:002014-12-24T08:51:29.824+00:00Wangechi Mutu - Victoria Miro GalleryFantastical collages of mythical women in crazy seas.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-19061058578229513552014-11-23T20:16:00.000+00:002014-11-23T20:16:26.768+00:00Yoshitomo Nara: greetings from a place in my heart - Dairy Art Centre
beautiful colours. sinister children.
dairy art centre is a really nice space too and didn't mind photo taking!
lots to see - big paintings, little drawings, sculptures. loved the handwritten timeline along the bottom of the wall in the room of drawings. loved the 'reflected' colours in the eyes of the paintings.
Dairy Art Centre
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-46272826995768195432014-11-23T20:04:00.000+00:002014-11-23T20:04:11.024+00:00blood swept lands and seas of redUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-31016179045655391172014-11-02T16:11:00.003+00:002014-11-02T16:11:33.124+00:00Stranger that Fiction - Joan Fontcuberta - Science Museum
Ok. Favourite exhibition of the year. I LOVE this! Never heard of him before but YES. If I had time (there's not long left before this show ends) I would go again.
Fontcuberta creates stories with photography and plays with the trust we put into photographs and the things we see in a museum setting. (And it works - Stu got really confused at first thinking it seemed so real but Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-91063282668808841162014-10-21T21:35:00.000+01:002014-10-21T21:35:26.218+01:00autumn leaves
Sitting in Sheffield Botanical Gardens on Sunday. Felt overwhelmingly happy surrounded by the intense yellow of crisp fallen leaves with sunlight sprinkling across as they fluttered gently with the wind.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-64400880912787774652014-10-21T21:23:00.000+01:002014-10-21T21:23:15.411+01:00post rain pre sunsetUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-17411336038703724552014-10-21T21:17:00.000+01:002014-10-21T21:17:14.721+01:00Ordinary Beauty - the photography of Edwin Smith - RIBA
I hadn't heard of Edwin Smith before and I think I really should have. His photographs are beautiful with amazing light and show the beauty of everyday life.
On till 6 Dec 2014
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-84413721279756338072014-10-13T20:32:00.001+01:002014-11-28T15:27:54.324+00:00Ancient Lives, New Discoveries - British MuseumFascinating look under the wrappings of Egyptian mummies. They put mummies through scanners and you can see the amulets and things wrapped in there as well as into those jars of hearts/lungs etc. You can see what the people looked like too. At the end you see their ghostly faces recreated. It's macabre and yet it conjures up real lives from the coffins.
On till 19 April 2015
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-36267878511252961682014-09-14T17:56:00.000+01:002014-09-14T17:56:02.204+01:00Plums???
Pretty colours outside our flat. Possibly plums?
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-20767840606312594312014-09-14T17:49:00.000+01:002014-09-14T17:49:30.035+01:00Books about town: Greenwich and Riverside TrailsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-20966846639651923482014-09-07T17:35:00.004+01:002014-09-14T17:51:34.129+01:00Matisse: Cut Outs - Tate Modern
This was open all night last night because it is the last weekend/popularity so I went at 6am. It was glorious. Space to look at leisure and just wonderful.
The colours and the energy and the joy in the cut outs made me so happy.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-68015687986632396082014-09-07T17:32:00.002+01:002014-09-07T17:32:48.159+01:00Making Colour - National Gallery
I hadn't thought about how paint colours were made...very interesting to see how pigments were developed, illustrated by paintings and their use of colour. Favourite bit was history of blue. Historically, ground lapis lazuli was the best way to get blue!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-26704598486484831122014-08-31T15:55:00.001+01:002014-08-31T15:55:45.320+01:00Baskerville's Tea Room - Palmers Green
I used to live in Palmers Green and it's always nice to go visit - especially when I find plenty of books I want in the very excellent and plentiful charity shops there AND discover a large tea room has opened and it is very pretty and has a garden and a huge tea selection (I had a refreshing green tea with ginger and lemongrass) and banana cake with peanut butter frosting. Banana cake is my Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-28886072841671942042014-08-31T15:48:00.002+01:002014-08-31T15:48:56.715+01:00Margate Shell Grotto
Mysterious underground grotto decorated with shells - no one knows why!
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-39917293126895145912014-08-15T21:43:00.001+01:002014-08-15T21:43:44.428+01:00Pretty hummus lid!Condensation on the lid of my hummus pot, on top of my bird notebook. Pretty.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-79793853678659671312014-08-11T21:09:00.001+01:002014-08-11T21:15:51.124+01:00Spectra - Ryoji Ikeda - Victoria Tower GardensJust caught this on the last night and was well worth hanging about to experience. Bright jets of light straight up in the sky in the middle of London and hypnotic sounds as you move amongst the pillars of light in memory of the first world war. Dust sparkled as it passed through the beams. Beautiful.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-66707486102864538912014-07-23T18:34:00.000+01:002014-07-23T18:34:24.771+01:00Boyhood
Drinking Prosecco while waiting for Stu to make cheese toasties before we set off to see Boyhood. Happy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-17460304565428160192014-07-19T09:24:00.000+01:002014-07-19T09:24:08.975+01:00Books about town - City & Bloomsbury TrailsI love a charity art hunt and the big egg hunt was very disappointing this year - rows of eggs in Covent Garden is not an egg hunt!
Hello, books about town! These are benches that look like a big book, each illustrated by a different artist to convey a different book and all to promote literacy. Come October, the benches will be auctioned and the proceeds will go to the National Literacy Trust.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-33701537863462753622014-06-14T15:29:00.000+01:002014-06-14T15:29:12.739+01:00Vikings - British Museum
I've tried to visit twice but it has been so incredibly crowded that I've not really been able to appreciate it it. The massive viking boat is very impressive and the exhibition opens up a bit here but the lead up to the boat is so awful I barely took anything in.
I'm having some bad timing lately I think as I visited the Comics Unmasked exhibition at the British Library a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-25947352373710620482014-06-08T21:21:00.001+01:002014-06-08T21:22:36.630+01:00Finally finished practice dress!
Spent all day yesterday sewing and can't quite believe I've made a dress! This was the test run made with old curtains/quilts I had but I think it's wearable and I'm happy because I love these fabrics and so pleased they've been made into something. It's not perfect but it's not bad! Yay! Now to make the actual dress, which will be bright yellow.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-14010717448050238952014-06-05T21:51:00.000+01:002014-06-05T21:51:16.249+01:00Beautiful momentIt's been a while since I've had one of those moments when the world feels beautiful and happiness washes over you.
I don't like having moved to Barnet but the sky is still beautiful.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918762163402898000.post-55459683067987325352014-04-29T21:54:00.000+01:002014-04-29T21:54:20.050+01:00V&A Late - Synthetic Aesthetics - Friday 25th April 2014The V&A is open late every Friday (which is excellent) and every last Friday of the month they do a special late. Last Friday was themed 'Synthetic Aesthetics' and I popped along before meeting friends at Nandos.
V. interesting stuff. My highlight was 'Bacterial DNA Beats' which was music/imagined sounds of the inside of a DNA helix, apparantly inspired by 'bacteria's ability to transmit EMFUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0