We Need To Talk

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angels, Cirencester, commiunication, Contemporary Art, Sculpture, Victoria Atkinson

Victoria Atkinson sculpture in Cirencester Contemporary Art

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Ghost of a Reader- Doha Airport

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Barthes, hauntology, Jacques Derrida, literary theory, Steen Christiansen

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart. Credit to the original artist, whoever produced it.

Are all forms of representation ghostly? Discuss.

Accordion Book of Theseus and the Minotaur

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Ashmolean, Dionysius, labyrinth, minotaur, Naxos, Oxford, Pasiphae, Theseus

Pasiphae and the White Bull; the Minotaur and sacrificial victim,

Theseus in background;Ariadne with sword and twine; death of

the Minotaur; Theseus departs for Naxos with Ariadne; Dionysius

gets the girl!

All acrylic and ink by Candia Dixon-Stuart- after going to the Knossos

exhibition at The Ashmolean, Oxford.

Vertical Slice from my Previous Painting

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acrylic painting, frosty landscape, owl

see 23rd January post

Acrylics and metallic paint.

Whither?

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death, future, meditation, planet, wisdom

Collage by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Water Wall

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father and son, NGV Melbourne, Parenting, water wall

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Spooky Fairford, Cotswolds

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Cotswolds, Fairford, Hallowe'en, Oxfordshire, shrunken head, skeleton, spider web, spook, witch's hat

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Whirling Dervishes

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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.

Weir Cottage from Buscot Weir

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Buscot, Buscot Weir, Cotswolds, NT cottage, Oxfordshire, willows

Oxfordshire. Acrylic painting by Candia Dixon-Stuart

St Luke’s, Sapperton

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benediction, epiphany, faith, happenstance, labyrinth, peace, prayer, reassurance, revelation, Sapperton, serendipity, St Luke's, stained glass, Ukraine

After I’d walked the churchyard labyrinth and prayed for Ukraine

in its centre, I opened the door of the church and saw this reflection

on the wall.

There was no stained glass window with a representation of a man on

the opposite wall for the sun to shine through. It was not spooky, just

somehow comforting and validating.