27 Sunday Nov 2022
Posted in art, Bible, Literature, Music, mythology, Nature, Photography, Religion
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Ashmolean, Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, King Arthur, Millais, Oxford, Pre-Raphaelites, Ruskin
From the closing exhibition at The Ashmolean, Oxford
Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart
07 Friday Oct 2022
Posted in Literature, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Supernatural
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Elif Shafak, Forty Rules of Love, Konya, Rumi, Shams of Tabriz, Sufi, Sufism, whirling dervishes
Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart
Just finished reading Elif Shafak’s novel about Shams of Tabriz and his
relationship with Rumi, the Sufi poet.
13 Tuesday Sep 2022
Posted in Education, History, Literature, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry
Reference to Emerson and T S Eliot
Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart
The lengthened shadow of a man is History, said Emerson,
Who had not seen the silhouette
of Sweeney straddled in the sun…
08 Monday Aug 2022
Posted in Humour, Literature, Photography, Poetry
I am trying my best!
‘Not Waving, but Drowning’ poem comes to mind. Stevie Smith.
18 Saturday Sep 2021
Posted in Autumn, gardens, Horticulture, Literature, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Poetry
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Autumn, decay, end of summer, every fair from fair sometime declines, momento mori, nasturtium, poignant beauty, Shakespeare, Sonnet 18, still life
Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart
07 Tuesday Sep 2021
Posted in Animals, art, gardens, Humour, Literature, Nostalgia, Photography, Sculpture, Summer
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Highnam Court Gardens, Kenneth Grahame, Mr Toad, parp parp!, Rolls Royce, Toad, Toad Hall, Wind in the Willows, wooden sculpture
Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart
20 Tuesday Jul 2021
Posted in art, Literature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography
Artwork by Candia Dixon-Stuart
I did this silhouette drawing based on a postcard that I bought
at the Goethe House in Frankfurt in 1970. I decided to upcycle it
with a bit of photo manipulation and the addition of a wonky
crown.
11 Sunday Jul 2021
Posted in art, Literature, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography
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bookshop, carp, flooring, interior design, lily pond, water lilies
Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart
03 Saturday Jul 2021
Posted in art, Family, Literature, Summer 2012
Acylic Painting by Candia Dixon-Stuart
02 Friday Jul 2021
Posted by Candia | Filed under art, Crime, Literature, mythology, Supernatural
Candia Comes Clean 