Mixed Messages

YouTube video by Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

Nothing more disturbing than the closing lines to last song before bedtime

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Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
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Day 10/20

Myths & Legends, William Robinson

You can keep my things

They've come to take me home

B&w wood engraving of an owl hunkered on a snapped bough, surrounded by branches and a pine cone

Resigned to those Monday blues 'The Philosopher'. Eric Fitch Daglish (1894–1966) #OwlishMonday

Arriving up from the country, I saw this scratched into a table in one of the old-style lecture halls when I studied engineering at Trinity College. It was my introduction to Tom Waits. Everything went downhill from there, in the best possible way:

"There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk."

Helston, Cornwall. Grave of Henry Trengrouse who invented a rocket apparatus to be used by sinking ships to communicate with the shore

I really like this #RoadsideMemorial

Probably simple if one knows how - but admirable if one doesn't

Co. #Cork

Art challenge:

Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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#Cork #RoadsideMemorial
Day 9/20

Brian Quilligan Memorial by Mark Quilligan near Mardyke

Forge MAYBE it is the attraction to the flame. In the years before PassiveHouse design began its elimination from the Irish house, the open fire was great. The way it cast shadows around the room. It...

I could watch the craft of a blacksmith for hours

Have sent me down so many rabbit holes

Hope you are planning an oral history archive on streetnames and signs

Adding translation into the mix

#speirgorm

Men Of The Blaskets (A4 and A3 Fine Art Prints) — Ciaraíoch Art Giclée print version of the sold-out lino print of "Men Of The Blaskets", based on a photo taken there by C.W. von Sydow c. 1924, a reminder that people have lived, and survived, during some of the to...

One of my favs that I own!

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#OtD 7 Dec 1938 the last of the International Brigades' British Battalion arrived by boat back in Newhaven, UK, after surviving the Spanish Civil War. The 300 brigaders were welcomed by a huge crowd before marching to a special train to London stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1307...

Did like this one from Belfast visit in 2018

Thank you for educating as to artist

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Day 8/20

Seahorse, Kelvin Brodie Hunt

Very

Went to Dublin that day especially to see it

Someplaces it is called
The Hauntings

Other places
The Hauntings Soldier

Art challenge:

Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you —
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Day 8/20

November 2018 when on vist to St Stephen's Green, #Dublin

Complete with residue of red paint

Art challenge:

Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.

#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture

Day 8/20

The Hauntings -Chris Hannam,Martin Galbavy-Dorset Forge and Fabrication

As of this morning, concrete has yet to be poured on the former green area on Watercourse Road. The council still have time to do the right thing and return it grass and re-plant the four trees. Show Blackpool some love for a change!
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The last grave: Dunwich, Suffolk.

Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
#Dunwich
#Suffolk
#coastalerosion

Art challenge:

Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.

#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture

Day 7/20

Homeless Jesus, Timothy Schmalz - this one at Victoria St, #Belfast

Two wedgewood blue doors with intricate black metalwork are set into a stone building with red bricks in front.

#AdoorableThursday
Our Lady of Victory Chapel at St. Catherine’s University.

Definition of AGNOSTIC a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as a supreme being) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonex...

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Art challenge:

Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.

#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture

Day 6/20

Grave of Vaslav Nijinsky, by Oleg Abaziev, Montmartre Cemetery, Paris

Now that's quite a #dublinghostsign reveal on the side of Cumiskey's pub at Broadstone today. Here's hoping it'll be held on to.

This is very dangerous stuff …

When one realises that West Cork does not have the one and only ......