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Crisp whites and shades of blue define a stunning early twentieth-century waterfront beach house. Completely rebuilt in 1999, the three-story home was redecorated by the current owners. A coastal design is carried throughout the nearly 2800-square-foot house in charming and subtle ways. The eat-in kitchen has a large circular table with navy blue cushions piped in white. The dining room has a casual beachy atmosphere created by black chinoiserie chairs on a striped rug and a large sailboat painting. The nautical theme is also reflected in the pair of brass and glass ship lanterns suspended in the living room. As an added bonus, visitors can tour the spacious two-bedroom guest cottage across the street. The cottage enjoys unobstructed views of Fence Creek and gives the owners the ability either to relax at the waterside or enjoy a peaceful expedition by canoe. Serenity abounds in this unique seaside home.
On June 24th, 2018, The Madison Historical Society's 6th Annual Tour of Remarkable Homes of 5 unique Madison Properties was held from 11 to 4. See flic.kr/s/aHsmiFnBoe for more scenes from this event.
(Photo credit Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
This is how I've been spending much of my time lately, building up inventory to take back to the States in July to sell! It's fun and challenging!
A part of my current setup, although I've shuffled a lot of it around whilst I work on the Mac Mini project. Still got the iMac, eMac, PowerBook G4 sitting on the other side of the room.
Ubuntu 8.10, Gnome. Tweaked a bit.
Useful tablet controls along the bottom are usually hidden, but appear when the transparent bar is moused-over.
Metacity theme is ClearGlow
Icons are Gnome-Wise
Wallpaper is Grassy Sunset
Not pictured: Gnome Do (awesome)
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation is held Apr. 29, 2021, at the 331st Training Squadron’s Airman Training Complex on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
Judging by the people milling around the Railyard, the opening must have been a great success. I never made it inside yet, but watched something about a last cruise around the Taos plaza, narrated bi-lingually in a rich and satisfying voice, while expressive images of how things were then and now were projected on some of those colorful panels.
I look forward to next 3 long extended weekends to explore the inside of this annual always exciting exhibition.
that's my current set up in the Palo Alto apartment I'll stay until end of march. Loosing weight running from one side to other of the desk :)
The current house was commissioned in 1759 by Nathaniel Curzon and designed by Robert Adam.[11] George Nathaniel Curzon is Kedleston's first Marquess Curzon, the first son of the fourth Baron Scarsdale.[18] The second Baroness Ravensdale was Irene Mary Curzon (1896–1966).[citation needed] The third Baron Ravensdale (b. 1923), was Sir Nicholas Mosley, born to George Curzon's daughter, Cynthia Blanche Mosley (1898–1933).[19] The first Earl Howe included Curzon-Howe Richard William (1796–1870);[3] Curzon-Howe George Frederick (1821–1876).[20] The third Earl Howe going forward included the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Earl Howe as Curzon-Howe Richard William (1822–1900), Curzon Richard George (1861–1929), Curzon Francis Penn (1884–1964), Curzon Richard Assheton (1908–1984), and Curzon Frederick Richard (b. 1951), in that order.[5][21][16]
On the death of the second Viscount Scarsdale, Richard Curzon in 1977, expenses compelled the heir, his cousin (Francis Curzon), to transfer the property to the care of the National Trust.[22]
Places and facilities named after the Curzon family name include Curzon Street believed to have been named after the third Viscount Howe, Mr. George Howe, and later transferred to another member of the family whose last name was Curzon.[23] Curzon Avenue is a street in England's North West expanse, specifically Northwich, in the Weaver Vale constituency.[24] In the world of athletics, Curzon Ashton F.C. is a soccer club situated in Ashton-Under-Lyne, which traces its history to the family's name owing to a few members of the family who participated in football. The key parks bearing the Curzon family name include Roker Curzon Park (Sunderland), Curzon Park (in Chester),[25] and Curzon Park Abbey (a monastery of nuns).[26]
Exterior
Kedleston Hall was Brettingham's opportunity to prove himself capable of designing a house to rival Holkham Hall. The opportunity was taken from him by Robert Adam who completed the North front (above) much as Brettingham designed it, but with a more dramatic portico.
The design of the three-floored house is of three blocks linked by two segmentally curved corridors. The ground floor is rusticated, while the upper floors are of smooth-dressed stone. The central, corps de logis, the largest block, contains the state rooms and was intended only for formal entertaining. The East block was a self-contained country house in its own right, containing all the rooms for the family's private use, and the identical West block contained the kitchens and all other domestic rooms and staff accommodation.
Plans for two more pavilions (as the two smaller blocks are known), of identical size and similar appearance, were never executed. These further wings were intended to contain, in the south-east a music room, and in the southwest a conservatory and chapel. Externally these latter pavilions would have differed from their northern counterparts by large glazed Serlian windows on the piano nobile of their southern facades. Here the blocks were to appear as of two floors only; a mezzanine was to have been disguised in the north of the music room block. The linking galleries here were also to contain larger windows, than on the north, and niches containing classical statuary.
The north front, approximately 117 yards [107 m] in length, is Palladian in character, dominated by a massive, six-columned Corinthian portico; however, the south front (illustrated right) is pure neoclassical Robert Adam. This garden facade is divided into three distinct sets of bays; the central section is a four-columned, blind triumphal arch (based on the Arch of Constantine in Rome) containing one large, pedimented glass door reached from the rusticated ground floor by an external, curved double staircase. Above the door, at second-floor height, are stone garlands and medallions in relief.
The four Corinthian columns are topped by classical statues. This whole centre section of the facade is crowned by a low dome visible only from a distance. Flanking the central section are two identical wings on three floors, each three windows wide, the windows of the first-floor piano nobile being the tallest. Adam's design for this facade contains huge "movement" and has a delicate almost fragile quality.
Interior
A cross section through the hall and saloon
The neoclassical interior of the house was designed by Adam to be no less impressive than the exterior. Entering the house through the great north portico on the piano nobile, one is confronted by the marble hall designed to suggest the open courtyard or atrium of a Roman villa.
Marble Hall 1763, decoration completed in 1776-7
Twenty fluted alabaster columns with Corinthian capitals support the heavily decorated, high-coved cornice. Niches in the walls contain classical statuary; above the niches are grisaille panels. The floor is of inlaid Italian marble. Matthew Paine's original designs for this room intended for it to be lit by conventional windows at the northern end, but Adam, warming to the Roman theme, did away with the distracting windows and lit the whole from the roof through innovative glass skylight.
At Kedleston, the hall symbolises the atrium of the Roman villa and the adjoining saloon the vestibulum. The saloon, contained behind the triumphal arch of the south front, like the marble hall rises the full height of the house, 62 feet to the top of the dome, where it too is sky-lit through a glass oculus. Designed as a sculpture gallery, this circular room was completed in 1763. The decorative theme is based on the temples of the Roman Forum with more modern inventions: in the four massive, apse-like recesses are stoves disguised as pedestals for classical urns. The four sets of double doors giving entry to the room have heavy pediments supported by scagliola columns, and at second-floor height, grisaille panels depict classical themes.
A neoclassical drawing room at Kedleston photographed in 1915.
From the saloon, the atmosphere of the 18th-century Grand Tour is continued throughout the remainder of the principal reception rooms of the piano nobile, though on a slightly more modest scale. The "principal apartment", or State bedroom suite, contains fine furniture and paintings as does the drawing room with its huge Venetian window; the dining room, with its gigantic apse, has a ceiling that Adam based on the Palace of Augustus in the Farnese Gardens.
The theme carries on through the library, music room, down the grand staircase (not completed until 1922) onto the ground floor and into the so-called "Caesar's hall". On the departure of guests, it must sometimes have been a relief to vacate this temple of culture and retreat to the relatively simple comforts of the family pavilion.
Below the Rotunda is the Tetrastyle Hall, which was converted into a museum in 1927. The kitchen is an oblong shape with a balustraded gallery at one end. This links the room to other household offices on each side.
Also displayed in the house are many curiosities pertaining to George, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who succeeded to the house in 1916 and who had earlier served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905. Lord Curzon had amassed a large collection of subcontinental and Far Eastern artefacts. Also shown is Lady Curzon's Delhi Durbar Coronation dress of 1903. Designed by Worth of Paris, it was known as the peacock dress for the many precious and semi-precious stones sewn into its fabric. These have now been replaced by imitation stones; however, the effect is no less dazzling.
In addition to that described above, this great country house contains collections of art, furniture and statuary. Kedleston Hall's alternative name, The Temple of the Arts, is truly justified.
Gardens and grounds
A sketch by Robert Adam for the Fishing Room and Boat House at Kedleston. Circa 1769
Fishing Room and Boat House built 1770-72
The gardens and grounds, as they appear today, are largely the concept of Robert Adam. Adam was asked by Nathaniel Curzon in 1758 to "take in hand the deer park and pleasure grounds". The landscape gardener William Emes had begun work at Kedleston in 1756, and he continued in Curzon's employ until 1760; however, it was Adam who was the guiding influence. It was during this period that the former gardens designed by Charles Bridgeman were swept away in favour of a more natural-looking landscape. Bridgeman's canals and geometric ponds were metamorphosed into serpentine lakes.
The Bridge by Robert Adam built 1770-71
Adam designed numerous temples and follies, many of which were never built. Those that were include the North lodge (which takes the form of a triumphal arch), the entrance lodges in the village, a bridge, cascade and the Fishing Room. The Fishing Room is one of the most noticeable of the park's buildings. In the neoclassical style it is sited on the edge of the upper lake and contains a plunge pool and boat house below. Some of Adam's unexecuted design for follies in the park rivalled in grandeur the house itself.
A "View Tower" designed in 1760 – 84 feet high and 50 feet wide on five floors, surmounted by a saucer dome flanked by the smaller domes of flanking towers — would have been a small neoclassical palace itself. Adam planned to transform even mundane utilitarian buildings into architectural wonders. A design for a pheasant house (a platform to provide a vantage point for the game shooting) became a domed temple, the roofs of its classical porticos providing the necessary platforms; this plan too was never completed. Among the statuary in the grounds is a Medici lion sculpture carved by Joseph Wilton on a pedestal designed by Samuel Wyatt, from around 1760–1770.[27][28]
In the 1770s, George Richardson designed the hexagonal summerhouse, and in 1800 the orangery. The Long Walk was laid out in 1760 and planted with flowering shrubs and ornamental trees. In 1763, it was reported that Lord Scarsdale had given his gardener a seed from rare and scarce Italian shrub, the "Rodo Dendrone" (sic).
The gardens and grounds today, over two hundred years later, remain mostly unaltered. Parts of the park are designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, primarily because of the "rich and diverse deadwood invertebrate fauna" inhabiting its ancient trees.[29]
Later history
The Curzon family, whose name originates in Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy, have been in Kedleston since at least 1297, and have lived in a succession of manor houses near to or on the site of the present Kedleston Hall. The present house was commissioned by Sir Nathaniel Curzon (later 1st Baron Scarsdale) in 1759. The house was designed by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham and was loosely based on an original plan by Andrea Palladio for the never-built Villa Mocenigo.
At the time a relatively unknown architect, Robert Adam, was designing some garden temples to enhance the landscape of the park; Curzon was so impressed with his designs that Adam was quickly put in charge of the construction of the new mansion.
Second World War
In 1939, Kedleston Hall was offered by Richard Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale, for use by the War Office.[30] The Hall was used in various ways during the War, including as a mustering point and army training camp.
It also formed one of the Y-stations used to gather signals intelligence by collecting radio transmissions which, if encrypted, were subsequently passed to Bletchley Park for decryption.[31]
National Trust
By the 1970s Kedleston Hall had become too expensive for the Curzon family to maintain. When Richard Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale, died, his cousin Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale, offered the house, park and gardens to the nation in lieu of death duties. A deal was agreed with the National Trust that it should take over Kedleston, along with an endowment, while still allowing the family to live rent-free in the 23-room Family Wing, which contained an adjoining garden and two rent-free flats for servants or other family members.[22] Richard Curzon and his family currently reside there.
In 2020, the Trust was working on a plan to include coverage about the owners of its properties who had links to colonialism and slavery. That had included Kedelston Hall; although Lord George Nathaniel Curzon had no links to slavery, he was president of The National League for Opposing Women's Suffrage and worked to prevent giving women the right to vote. Visitors to the Hall will find a display in the Billiard Room[32] exploring his role in the Anti-Suffrage movement.[33][34][35]
Current keeper since 2002.
A wonderful looking 626. Another from my first return to shows, and while I think I've seen it since; there's fewer than 2k miles covered in the last 10 years. I'll endeavour to get some improved shots next year if it makes it out.
I am currently trying to revisit all the churches photographed in the first few years of the Kent Churches Project, which means seeing some great and humble buildings, and sometimes surprise that some did not make more of an impact on me first time time round.
Why sits in the shadow of the downs, Wye down being nearest, of course, and also beside the Stour. The chuch sits beside the old main road and beside the old college, with the village spread to its south side.
All I remembered from my first time was the glass outer porch door, but my overwhelming feeling this time was of space and light in the mighty high nave.
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A very strange church, the result of the collapse of a tall central tower in 1686. The nave of the medieval church survives almost intact, while the chancel has been constructed from the remains of the central crossing of the thirteenth-century church, and a new tower built. The nave is tall and light, and contrasts well with the short narrow apsed chancel that now contains mural tablets to the Sawbridge and Drax families who lived at Olantigh. The reredos is plain early eighteenth-century work and ties in nicely with the dark oak panelling. The choir stalls which stand in the nave were a thanksgiving memorial for the life of President Kennedy. The west window, which represents Christ in Majesty, is set into plain glass and was designed by Gerald Smith in the 1950s. It is an object lesson in how good glass of this period could be.
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WYE
LIES the next parish eastward from Challock. It is spelt in Domesday, and other antient records, Wy.
¶THE PARISH lies in a healthy country, great part of it being in the fertile Ashford vale; the fine pasture down hills of Wye and Braborne bound the eastern side of it, as does another range of hills on the opposite side, the tops of which are skirted by the large extent of woodland, called King's and Challock woods, over which, for near two miles, this parish reaches westward almost to the church and village of Molash. It contains about two hundred and thirteen houses, and fourteen hundred inhabitants; the rents of it are about 4500l. per annum. The soil of it is various, the hills above mentioned, as well as the vale between in the northern part of it, are mostly chalk; the rest of it a red cludgy earth, much intermixed with slints, a wet unpleasant soil; the meadows near the river are very sertile and rich. The town of Wye, in which the fine tower of the church is a conspicuous object, stands in the vale on the river Stour, which directs its course throught the parish in its way to Canterbury; over it here is a stone bridge of five arches, built in 1630, in the room of the former wooden one, at the charge of the county; the river is plentifully stowed hereabouts with pikes. The town, which stands low and damp, and from that and its soil an unpleasant situation, is a neat well-built town, consisting of two parallel and two cross streets, the whole unpaved. There is a large green in it, built round, on one side of which is the church and college close to it, and on the other a house, which was once the gaol to the manor-court, but long since disused.
There is a tradition, that the town once stood in the valley, which lies between Wye-down and Crundal, where the hamlet of Pett-street now is, about which there are still remaining several deep disused wells, and this place is still called Town borough, where as that in which Wye town stands is called Bewbridge-borough. About half a mile westward from the town is a pleasant seat, called Spring-grove, built by Thomas Brett, esq. of this parish, in 1674, who afterwards resided in it.
The south part of the parish below the town, is full of small inclosures, and the soil deeper. In it is a hamlet, called Withersden, formerly accounted a manor, in which there is a well, which was once famous, being called St. Eustace's well, taking its name from Eustachius, abbot of Flai, who is mentioned by Matt. Paris, p. 169, an. 1200, to have been a man of learning and sanctity, and to have come and preached at Wye, and to have blessed a fountain there, so that afterwards its waters were endowed, by such miraculous power, that by it all diseases were cured. Hence the parish extends itself further southward by a narrow slip, between Brook and Braborne, to Nacolt-wood, once reputed likewise a manor, and the tile-kiln of that name.
Almost one half of the parish now belongs to Mr. Sawbridge, his estate here being greatly increased by his father's late purchase of the estates of Bond Hopkins, esq. which consist of Wye-court, Harvile, Coldharbour, Wye-downs, and Nacolt, in this parish; they formerly, I conjecture, belonged to Wye college, and afterwards to the Kempes; they were bought in chancery by John Hopkins. esq. commonly called from his rapacity, Vulture Hopkins, who died immensely rich in 1732, and devised his estates so as not to be inherited till after the second generation, then unborn; but the court of chancery set the will aside, and gave his estates to his heir-at-law, from whom they descended to the above-mentioned Bond Hopkins, esq. In the northern part of it stands the stately mansion of Ollantigh, close to the river, which is here beautifully formed by art to ornament it. Adjoining are the park-grounds, containing near six hundred acres, which extend almost as far as Wye town; and the eastern part of the ridge of hills called Wye-downs, the chain of which reaches to the sea-shore at Folkestone. On the summit of the hill, at the eastern extremity of this parish, is Fanscomb-beech, a tree visible to all the country round, to a great distance; near it was formerly a cottage, of the same name, now pulled down, and the lands laid into Mr. Sawbridge's park grounds. Also near it is Fannes wood, now a cottage, and belonging to him likewise. Both these were formerly esteemed manors of good account. The manor of Fannes, alias Fanscombe, formerly belonged to the master of the Savoy, now to St. Thomas's hospital, in Southwark, and that of Fannes wood, formerly the property of the Kempes, to Mr. Sawbridge.
The high road from Canterbury to Ashford leads along this parish, about half a mile distance westward from Ollantigh, on higher ground from whence there is a fine view over the vale beneath and the opposite downs, including the mansion and grounds of Ollantigh, and the town and church of Wye, which it leaves in its course at the same distance.
It is by some supposed that the Romans had a highway through this parish, which went on towards Lenham, and so to Aylesford; and the several remains of that nation dug up on Tremworth-down, in the adjoining parish of Crundal, on the side of it next to this parish, will serve to strengthen this conjecture. Wye had formerly a market on a Thursday, granted to the abbot of Battell, which was held in the time of king Henry VIII. It was held in Leland's time, who calls it a pratie market townelet; but it has been for some time disused. The two fairs formerly held here on St. Gregories day, March 23, and on All Souls day, Nov. 2, are now held on May 29 and Sept. 3, yearly, for Welch cattle, stock, &c.
There were formerly several families of good account resident in this town and parish, the Finch's, lived at Wye-court, descended from those of Sewards, in Linsted, a younger branch of the Finch's, of Eastwell; the Swans, removed hither from Lyd. Francis Swan, esq. resided here, his house being in the town of Wye, at the latter end of Henry VIII.'s reign. They bore for their arms, Azure, a chevron, ermine, between three swans, proper; the Twisdens, one of whom, Roger Twisden, gent. was of Wye, had a lease of the scite of the manor of Wye, and other premises here, from the abbot of Battel, anno 25 Henry VIII. and the Haules, who were antiently written De Aula five Haule, in Latin deeds, likewise resided here for several generations, till they removed to Maidstone in king James the 1st.'s reign, where George Haule, esq. of Maidstone, died in 1652. Elizabeth his daughter, and at length sole heir, married Sir Thomas Taylor, bart. of that parish. They bore for their arms, Or, on a saltier, five mulets of the field.
In this parish Major George Somner, brother to the antiquary, was killed in an engagement with the rebels, in 1648.
ON THE PLACE where the famous and decisive battle between king Harold and William, duke of Normandy, was fought in 1066, the Conqueror in the next year began to build a noble abbey, named from that event, Battell abbev; in Latin records, Abbatia de Bello; the royal founder endowing it with exemptions and privileges of a very extraordinary nature, and with many manors and good estates; among which was this Royal manor of Wye, with all its appendages, being of the demesnes of his crown, as the grant expresses it, with all liberties and royal customs, as well here as in Dengemarsh, which belonged to the court of Wye, (fn. 1) as freely as he himself held it, or as a king could grant it. Accordingly it is thus entered in the record of Domesday, under the title of land of the church of Battell, or De Labatailge, as there spelt.
¶The abbot of St. Martin, of the place of Battle, holds the manor which is called Wi, which in the time of king Edward the Confessor, and now, was and is taxed at seven sulings. The arable land is fifty-two carucates. In demesne there are nine carucates, and one hundred and fourteen villeins, with twenty-two borderers, having seventeen carucates. There is a church, and seven servants, and four mills of twenty-three shillings and eight pence, and one hundred and thirty three acres of meadow, and wood for the pannage of three hundred bogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth no more than twenty pounds and one hundred shillings, and six shillings and eight pence; when be received it, one hundred and twenty-five pounds, and ten shilling of the twenty in ore; (fn. 2) now one hundred pounds by tale; and if the abbot bad had sac and soc, it would have been worth twenty pounds more.
Ralf de Curbespina holds one denne and one yoke of the land, of the sockmen of this manor, and pays by custom six pence. Adelulf two parts of one suling, and pays twelve pence; and Hugo de Montfort has two yoke, and pays three hundred eels and two shillings; and in the time of king Edward the Confessor, they paid both sac and soc.
Of the twenty-two hundreds, there belonged to this manor, sac and soc, and all forfeitures, which of right belonged to the king.
For such was the dignity of this manor, which then consisted of seven sulings, or hides of land, that, as the antient book of this abbey expressed it, with its own hundred, it had jurisdiction over twenty-two hundreds and an half, which belonged to its court.
WYE is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Gregory and St. Martin, stands at the north-west corner of the town of Wye, and was built by cardinal Kempe, when he founded the college of Wye in the reign of king Henry VI. being a handsome, large building, with three isles and as many chancels, and a high spire steeple in the middle, which stood on four lofty arches, supported by a like number of large pillars. The great chancel was made choir fashion, wainscotted, and seated round for the members of the new col lege. The north chancel was appointed for the burying-place of the Kempes, owners of Ollantigh; and in the south chancel the parishioners of the better sort were interred. According to tradition, it stood antiently on a little hill just at the entrance into the town from the river, and which is now called Boltshill, but was removed to this place, where it now stands, by the cardinal. In 1572, the steeple was burnt by lightning, and though it was soon afterwards rebuilt, under the care of Gregory Brett, then churchwarden, who was a great contributor to the expence of it; for which the parishioners granted to him and his heirs, a vault, in the middle isle, for their burial; yet in 1685 it fell, and beat down the greatest part of the middle chancel, almost all the two side ones, and the east end of the body of the church, by which all the monuments in the north chancel, of the Kempes, and Thornhills, of Ollantigh, were wholly destroyed, and the tombstone which lay over the cardinal's father and mother, broken to pieces, whose epitaph is preserved by Weever, p. 274. The fragments of several of the old tombstones lay for several years afterwards seattered about the church-yard, and some statues and parts of monuments lay at the lower end of the church; but they have since been removed and there are now none remaining. After this, the remaining part was inclosed with boards, at the east end, to make it fit for divine service, and the rest lay in ruins till the year 1701, when a brief was procured for the rebuilding of it, and within a year or two afterwards it was begun, the remainder of the old chancels was taken down, and only the present small chancel built up at the east end, in the room of that where the choir was, and a tower steeple on the south side, between the chancel and the body of the church, with battlements, and four pinnacles with gilt vanes on them. The present building is small, but neat. It consists, of three isles, the middle one having an upper story and range of windows. There is only one small chancel, new built, circular at the east end, which does not reach near so far as the old one, which extended several feet further, Mr. Chamberlain Godfrey's monument, in the church yard standing, as is said, where the altar formerly did. Towards building the steeple and chancel, the lady Joanna Thornhill, the prebendaries of Canterbury, and others, were contributors, and Richard Thornhill, esq. gave the pavement of the chancel. In the steeple are eight bells and a clock, which were completed in 1774. The only memorials of any time remaining, are three in the body of the church, viz. two for the Bretts, and one having the figures, in brass, of a woman between her two husbands, and underneath of several children, and at bottom an inscription, beginning John Andrew Justus, Thomas Palmer q; venustus, &c. In the chancel is a memorial for Mrs. Catherine Matchem, daughter of George Finch, gent. of this parish, obt. 1713; a monument over a vault, in which lie Agnes and Mary Johnton; the former died in 1763, the latter in 1767, they were descended from Sir Robert Moyle, of Buckwell; and a monument for lady Joanna Thornhill, daughter of Sir Bevill Granville, second wife of Richard Thornhill, esq. of Ollantigh, commander of a regiment of horse raised at his own charge, obt. 1708.
This church, appurtenant to the manor of Wye, was given, with it, to the abbey of Battel at its foundation by the Conqueror, and was appropriated to it before the year 1384, being the 8th year of king Richard II. In which state it continued till the reign of king Henry VI. when cardinal Kempe obtained the king's licence to purchase the advowson of the vicarage of the abbot of Battel, and settled it on his newfounded college here, as will be further mentioned hereafter; but the rectory appropriate of Wye remained part of the possessions of the abbey till its dissolution in the 30th year of king Henry VIII. when it came into the king's hands, where this rectory staid till king Edward VI. in his 5th year, granted it and the manor of the vicarage, together with the two tithebarns and the tithes themselves, all parcel of the late monastery of Battel, to Edward, lord Clinton and Saye, who reconveyed them back again to the king, within a month afterwards.
Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) passenger depot built in 1905. Currently used as a restaurant.
Google Map coordinates... 41.10279,-80.658271
Top row: Shana (Resinsoul Fei, dark tan), Aino (Zaoll Ramie, NS), Twisp (Dollzone Renata, tan)
Middle row: Vilja (Dollmore Narsha, NS), Alyser (Resinsoul Song, grey), Cici (Hujoo Nano Freya, grey), Dragon#1 (self-made, poseable), Dhya (Resinsoul Mai, dark tan)
Bottom row: Oswald (Impldoll Martin, special realskin), Dragon #2 (self-made, poseable)
A series of dolls - named "Dolls of defiance" - awaiting titivation.
I'm using up lots of scraps with this project
"Unruly Currents: Tony DeVarco and Mayako Nakamura at the Marta Hewett Gallery"
Review by Christopher Carter in the art journal AEQAI (August 6th 2017)
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トニー・デヴァルコと 中村眞弥子の距離を隔てるものはたくさんあるにも関わらず、神秘的な一体感を共有している。彼らは自然環境の循環や驚異を尊敬しながら、共に視覚的平面において 流動的なかたちや彼らの抱く感情を掴むことに挑戦している。二人は鑑賞者の体験が、単なる受け身ではなく、創作的な想像体験を誘うものとして捉えている。一人のときでも二人のときでも 彼らは実在するものから得る感動、この世に存在するもの総ての儚さ、触れられるものの色など 明白な矛盾を追求している。彼らのイメージは身体的感覚体験の魅力を伝えながら 自然に眼を向ける傾向にある。それはわたしたちが生態系にどのように働きかけるかではなく、生態系がわたしたちにどのように働きかけるかを表現している。これらがひとつになり、作家と鑑賞者の関係性のみならず、変化と変化の渦の中に存続している周囲の状況に包まれた環境のなかで、彼らの作品は自然の一部としての倫理的な存在感を主張している。
デヴァルコと中村の芸術に関するやりとりは、2013年 デヴァルコが中村のスタジオを、またその翌年に東京での個展に訪れたことから始まった。その後 彼は彼女の作品のデジタル写真と彼自身の高画素の作品を混合させ、それを彼女に送り更に加筆してもらうという コラボレーションを提案した。こうして 今日に続く二人の関係が始まった。その結果からなる近作が シンシナティのマータ・へウエット・ギャラリーで展示されている。ギャラリーにて開催中の「リジェネレーションズ」では 二人のデュエット以外にもそれぞれ個人の作品が取り上げられており、それらを通して 鑑賞者は、個人の作品ひとつひとつがどのように会話をしているか。また 二人の共有した冒険を鑑賞するための枠組みを受け取りながら、展覧会を楽しめるようになっている。展覧会のタイトルは、三つの重要性を含んでいる。それは、成熟、休止、再生というリズムに注目しているふたりの芸術家を暗示し、国境を越えたときのイメージの変容を暗示している。
これらの変化がどのように起こったかを確認するために、わたしたちはそれぞれのアーティストの作品を観てゆくことにしよう。デヴァルコはいくつもの素材を用い、彫刻家、劇作家、舞台美術家の経験を生かしてデジタルのフォトモンタージ制作に努力を注ぐ。彼の師匠、マーク・デ・スヴェーロのエートスとの対話と イサム・ノグチ作品の形と粒子を合併し、空間、触覚の体験をイメージに重ねながら鑑賞者が 距離を隔てた黙想的な姿勢を取り入れるよりも、重複する視覚的な視野のアッサンブラージュに入って観るように誘っている。作品「テラ・オウラニア(天国の大地)」では、彫られたトルソーと円形の敷石、麻の生地のような草木や 歪んだ建造物の部分など、この感受性が石の美的可能性を秘めていることに気づくだろう。同様の効果は、作品「スペイシャル・リアリティー(III)」にも鳴り響いている。足場として構築された周囲の輝く破片が刈られた土地のジャングルと共存し、二つに分割された両方に基盤となる形がそびえ立つ。「スペイシャル・リアリティー(IV)」では、そのような構図の繊細な部分が際立つ。磨かれたグラナイトが煙のように、または 大きく波打つ帆のように置き換えられる。3点全ての作品において 疎密と奥行きによるトリックを行なっていることにより、硬い外観は二度目に観ると水のように感じられ、遠くに凹んだように感じられる形は最も近い表面に突如現れるように変形をして見える。
二分割されたパネルを見比べると 強烈なコントラストを感じさせるにも関わらず、そのような遊びは「スペイシャル・リアリティー(V)」にも継続して見受けられる。淡く柔らかな色彩は、骨と木炭色になる。左のパネルの銅のようないくつもの部分へと分解された円柱は、右のぼんやりとしたひだへと崩れる。もしくは また見直すと、その幻影は地面の方へ向き直る百合のようになる。しかしまだその空間は幻想的な霊界のようであり、全く地上ではなく、すべてのものが別世界の輝きを発光する霧が掛かった木造の屋根裏のようである。多色を用いたパネルの鮮やかさから押韻するアーチを抜け、もう一方の暗いパネルに入ってゆくと、構成の方法のヒントがあり、浮かぶ葉や花の拡大された姿に遭遇する。そのような動線を辿ると色数の幅は減少するが、形はより断言的になり、縞模様はぼんやりと主張しながらわたしたちに近づいてくる。
しかし細心の注意を払ってわたしたちがイメージを言葉にしたとしても、それは記述に反抗する。視覚的な反訴、他の方法で取りかかるように乞う。中村の絵画は同様に真の巧みさを示している。題名に感覚的な体験を示しながら、従来の型にはまった言葉に反抗する 感情の広野に向かって押し進んでいる。彼女の芸術的発展も自由なもので、本格的な活動は、デヴァルコとはじめて出会う5年前に始まっている。最初は「激しく主張する絵画」を通して彼女自身の感情と対話をすることが目的とされたが、次第に落ち着いた、控えめな表現へと変化していった。(加藤 p135) 日常の事柄や活動からインスピレーションを得ながら、彼女は直接関わりを持つ周囲を暗示させる「雰囲気」を描く。また同時に、「もうひとつの日常」のヒントを鑑賞者に与えながら 彼女の住む実在する空間を単純化できない感覚で描く。(マータ・ヘウエット・ギャラリー「リジェネレーションズ」) 加藤義夫は、彼女のエネルギーに満ちた線を「子供のいたずら書き」と比較しながらも 円熟したコンセプトについて賞賛している: 中村のキャンバスは、サイ・トゥオンブリーの動的な、直感的性質を彷彿させるが、肉体感覚は完全に彼女自身のものである。更に 加藤は 彼女は「自動筆記」の伝統を受け継ぎながら制作をしていると 説明している。その結果、わたしたちは「潜在意識を解き放って」つくられたものを味わう。彼女の経験する状況を描くのだけではなく、その状況は彼女の手を動かす。日々の生活を構成する気ままな現在の流れを指揮するよりも、その流れは彼女の周りと彼女の中をも巡る。もしも彼女が指揮者であったなら、それは指令というよりも手段である。
上述の制作方法は 作品「ひとつむぎ」に現れている。この作品の中では、中村の作品の随所に現れる 魚や鳥、波や蔓が集合し、展開され、ひと目見ると 鑑賞者を歓迎し、圧倒的である。「ワン・スピン(ひとまわり: 題名の英訳)」は ダンサーの踊りのことかもしれない。地球の自転のことかもしれない。濃縮された絵描きの「日常」のファンタジーかもしれない。一方では、水の渦は雨もしくは滝を意味し、もう一方では溺れることへの恐怖を示しているのかもしれない。「みちのり」では、水のようなモチーフは明白ではなくなり、その作品はJ.M.W ターナーの海の風景をグレースケールで練り直したかのようだ。中央にある船は霧の中に見え隠れしている。そしてまた、名だけの「旅」には、もしかしたら船は全く含まれていないのかもしれない。 その代わりに 不透明な平坦さから、電光のひらめきや街の賑わいへの動線が暗示しているのかもしれない。この作品は、期待または恐怖感のどちらかを選ぶことを拒絶する。すこし遠目から見ると、広大なフォルムは チケットまたはカミソリの刃のようにもみえる。中村の作品は限りなく逆説的であるが、「ごちそう」については、快楽の描写には曖昧さは少なく、その源は正確に伝えられ、同時に感情がよく捉えられている。この作品は、盛大なマチエールや風味を提供し、茶目っ気たっぷりに色彩のパレットと味覚のパレットを混乱させ、ごちそうの並んだテーブルの印象を見る者へ伝えている。上記のような作品の多くで彼女にとってひとつの味ではなく、いくつかの味を交えることに偉大な興味を抱いている。その清新さ、ポリフォニー、魅力の融合を楽しんでいる。
彼女の組み合わせる楽しみは、デヴァルコとの冒険にも続いている。それはフォトモンタージュとアクリル絵具が 時々お互いの力を中断させながら、彼らの制作過程をドラマチックなものにしている。キュレーターのボニー・デヴァルコは、二人の制作行程は ロバート・ラウシェンバーグとジャスパー・ジョンズの関係に一部影響され起因すると指摘している。レイヤーを重ねる手法を好む傾向、身の回りにある物への敬意を示している点などは「リジェネレーション」の肯定的な主張である。デヴァルコと中村の二枚のイタレーション(反復)「ソース(源)#1,#2」を観てみよう。この作品は、太平洋を往復する旅を通してマチエールが構築され、その影響下でつくられたことがとりわけ印象的だ。イタレーション＃1では、ほぼ一定の動きがみられ、豪華な紫や緑が白黒の表現の中へと蒸発し、水滴がゆるやかに波立つような鋭い金色に輝く線は かすみのかかったぼんやりとしたイメージ向かって流れてゆく。衝撃的な青い海水は、他の画面の動きを総合するかのように先導する全てを吸収、拡大する。イタレーション＃2では、魚のかたちの暗示がより明白になり、画面の下半分にゆるやかに形作られ、画面右上にはくっきりと現れている。輪のような線はより顕著になり、その線のはつらつとした不正確さで上品さは気まぐれさに変わってゆく。イタレーション＃1で画面を横断していた白は 加筆された反復作品にてより支配的な役割を果たすようになる。その結果、空間の彩度を減少させ、隠れたかたちを自由に放つ。イタレーション＃2において 中村は 引き算でかたちを呼び起こし、皮肉なことにまさしく新しいレイヤーを加えるという行為によって、既存の材料を切り捨てている。
振り返ると、二人はそれぞれ予測できない何かをつくりながら、彼ら自身の独自のスタイルや体験を通じて出現する性質を認めている。中村にとって、いくつものイタレーションを手がけることは、様式的にもコンセプトについても「何かあたらしいもの」に挑戦することである。デヴァルコにとってこの「新鮮さ」は、展覧会に訪れる鑑賞者の視点なしでは成り立たないという。彼はあたたかな好奇心でそのような交流について明示し、どのような関連、もしくはどのようなきっかけでそのような心地になるかを尋ねる。ほとんど付随的な関心であるが、その答えには意味がある。なぜなら彼は言う。「あなたも今はその一部だから。」と。境界を開放し、頷きながら楽しい主観の混在を受け入れるその寛大な姿勢は、現在 西洋文化の大半を特徴付けるセルフプロモーションと孤独から 非常にかけ離れた対比を示している。
「リジェネレーションズ」は 党派支持の予測可能な緊張や不安を伴う表現は避けているが、その多国籍のコラボレーションの作風は 展覧会の中で鑑賞者の住まう空間と考え方、政治や文化的背景を反映した 誠意ある意見を歓迎する。中村とデヴァルコの強調する 生態系の全体性の提案から、想像上でも現実的にも わたしたちとそれぞれの所有する場所は互いに関わりを持っていることに こころから気づく。このような感受性で、中村の描くほとんど全てのものは満たされている。表現主義の手法で描かれた静物。巧みな技術によってつくられた白磁の器を飾るために次々と引かれた大胆な線。それから着物地に乗る筆さばき。(加藤 p135) デヴァルコの作品にも 同様に感受性は現れている。彫刻家としての輪郭。劇作家としての時間。彼らの美的感覚がひとつになり「何かあたらしいもの」が 生まれる。それは 素晴らしく神秘的で、無生物と有機体の交錯を味わえるものとなる。もしくは もっと的確に述べるなら、生物である人間も、人間の周囲に存在するその他のものも 同様であるということを 人の心に吹き込んでいる。
(訳: 中村 眞弥子)
参考文献
加藤 義夫 「無邪気な天才、進化し続ける画家・中村眞弥子」 中村眞弥子作品集 2009-2017 解説 アトリエ ユニ, 博進堂 2017
マータ・ヘウエット・ギャラリー「リジェネレーションズ」 www.martahewett.com/devarco-nakamura
These are the current swaps happening now. There are still some spots left in some of the swaps if you'd like to join!
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currently i'm reading into thin air by jon krakauer, which is an amazingly interesting and at the same time extremely terrifiying story about the 1996 mt. everest disaster where eight climbers died on the mountain in a storm. krakauer himself was in one of the expeditions that were up there at the time, which gives it an even more scary touch because it's a first hand written story..
Seven current meter platforms arrive by truck for the Miami Current Survey Project. The project originated in 2007 after requests for up-to-date current information were received from multiple navigational community and marine resource users. The current survey project supports navigation and the operation of deep draft vessels in the area and additionally benefits various state and federal agencies.
To learn about currents, visit:
Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
What are Currents? (Diving Deeper audio podcast)
(Original source: National Ocean Service Image Gallery)
Not quite in focus but then again, we were in a hurry. Jaime snapped this one off the bow. This is a classic case of knowing we were stupid AFTER the fact.
1. Happy New Year!, 2. panda visits a tobacco barn, 3. study of a toy, 4. Wolf Moon, 5. Happy New Year!, 6. Advent Calendar, Day 11, 7. Lisianthus, 8. summer glory,
9. a morning in March, 10. misty morning, 11. freezing rain, 12. Orton effect?, 13. frozen memories, 14. Advent Calendar, Day 25, 15. Advent Calendar, Day 11, 16. all corn is Indian corn,
17. solar eclipse, old school viewing - 1, 18. red hot, 19. working with left-overs, 20. evening sun on the skyline, 21. in full bloom, 22. ♥ to all :-), 23. pleading with the sun, 24. A Dance to Autumn,
25. fall morning at the vineyard, 26. bright spot of the day, 27. guttation, 28. spring has sprung..., 29. Happy New Year!, 30. light my way home, 31. leap of faith ;-), 32. blue Yule,
33. 1st candle of Advent, 34. evening shadows, 35. a year on the road home..., 36. shining in the dark, 37. and so it begins, 38. Varsågod! Help yourself. :-), 39. winter at Mabry Mill, 40. nodding in the evening breeze,
41. facing the rising sun, 42. spacecraft approaching...., 43. The flower girls..., 44. the whisper of summer fades, 45. Light returns...., 46. Advent Star, 47. Ready to play?, 48. Mabry Mill...,
49. Success!, 50. emerald necklace, 51. flickr.com/photos/36684008@N00/224835738/, 52. Hmm...., 53. summer window, 54. Alice's entrance to the University Arts Department., 55. Map Making 4, 56. The luminous, short-lived beauty....,
57. Not a train, but clouds..., 58. Historical Red Sox players..., 59. Ophelia, 60. flickr.com/photos/36684008@N00/145295670/, 61. Untitled, 62. Indecent Floral Exposure, 63. The Electric Slide?, 64. Live Mannequin - no more...,
65. The mask..., 66. evening -- late winter, 67. winter on the Charles River, 68. Ocracoke Lighthouse, 69. dhow, 70. Uh-oh! Dinner in sight?, 71. a Swahili feast, 72. carved door
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I'm bad at the one-book-at-a-time thing.
Who took four English classes this year?
I'll give you a hint - it was me.
So some of those are for school.
There would normally be more library books, as my mother is a librarian (what a stroke of luck).
I just finished One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch earlier today.
my favorites out of the short story book so far are
"Something To Remember Me By" - Saul Bellow
"The Persistence of Desire" - John Updike
"That Evening Sun" - William Faulkner
"The Yellow Wallpaper" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"A Death in the Desert" - Willa Cather
AND HOLY FUCKING SHIT "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin
Yeah, Chris is being a total dumbass and not continuing to take photos of me until he gets his new phone that supposedly has a better camera than the one he's currently using.
windowsdownmag.com
DO NOT REMOVE CREDIT OR LOGO.
The Outsiders Tour
11/5/2014
Toad's Place
New Haven, CT
Tour of the Current Headquarters in San Francisco
photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
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Oh man. Got my Necy in (painted ugly purple bleh), faun girls' body (she's currently undergoing a name change) and I decided to keep the Necy OE head. And put it on a goat body. Now waiting on two more dollies-a littlefee baby for my lalafell character and i desperately need a soom alk for my zoo.
This is where I spend most of my free time. I do have quite a bit of free time so I am here often.
I am currently working on trying to get my collection sorted, so that is why you don't really see me building much.
At one point we all hopped out of the raft, and just let the lazy river current carry us along with its flow. And after 3 hours of paddling it's exactly what ya wanna do, may I say.
May 29, 2023 - "The skyline of downtown Columbus has been transformed with this monumental artwork by internationally recognized sculptor Janet Echelman. "Current" is a stunning, ephemeral, sky-high sculpture that will inspire wonder and imagination in all who see it. As it dances gracefully in the wind, this awe-inspiring work of art will become an emblem of Columbus’ culture and innovation.
The design and installation of "Current" was funded by Jeff Edwards. He has graciously donated the work to the Museum. We will oversee the care and maintenance of the sculpture as part of our permanent collection." Previous description of "Current" from a Facebook post by the Columbus Museum of Art.
Article about "Current" including its mean can be found here: dispatch-oh.newsmemory.com/?publink=04d385aae_134abf4
Starting from the left: Whole rosehips, lavender tea, gold rush, apple pomegranate roobios,
2nd Row: Mint with lavender and rosehips, Peach giner black tea, White Early Gray tea
The current Bair’s Otago Hotel located at 18 – 22 Bair Street Leongatha, dates from 1939 and replaced the original hotel which has timber verandahs and cast iron lacework. The 1939 Bair’s Otago Hotel was designed by architect Trevor C. McCullough for Arthur C. Bair, whose father, Robert Bair, had purchased the site at the second sale of Leongatha township allotments held on 18 June, 1889. The first building on this site, known as Bair’s Coffee House, was constructed in 1890 and was subsequently renamed the ‘Otago’ upon the grant of a full hotel licence in March 1891. Due to the lack of any suitable public buildings at that time, the first hotel was to be the venue for Woorayl Council meetings until the new Shire Offices were opened in November 1891. The association of the Council with the Hotel continued for over 90 years, as Council adjourned to the Bair’s Otago Hotel on each meeting day for their midday lunch. This practice was finally discontinued in 1985.
Bair’s Otago Hotel is a two storey manganese brick and render corner hotel built in an amalgam of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architectural styles. It displays typically strong vertical Art Deco elements in the façade, and horizontal canopies with rounded corners, which are more typical of the Streamline Moderne movement. The hotel features vertical counterpoints of flag pole, rain heads and downpipes and an end bay with a central pier of full height brick. The cantilevered street canopy expresses the corner with a semi-circular end below a band of face brickwork containing the upper windows and a recessed upper verandah with a projecting balustrade and canopy. The corner of Bair’s Otago Hotel features a splendid rounded glass brick infill to the upper floor, horizontal step and groove mouldings to the stepped parapet and the sign on the parapet in typical Art Deco lettering. Sadly, the original acid-etched glass windows of the hotel with a koala motif and the name of the hotel were removed during the post war years and have since been lost.
Historically, Bair’s Otago Hotel demonstrates the development of the hotel industry in the Shire through the interwar period. Whilst many earlier hotels were adapted to Art Deco or Streamline Moderne style in this period of change in the hotel trade, the Otago was completely rebuilt in a much more comprehensive expression of an amalgam of the two styles. It is a notable part of the historic interwar character of Bair Street.
Trevor C. McCullough was a Melbourne based architect and builder who designed and constructed a number of commercial buildings in the Shire during the interwar and immediate postwar period including Bair's Otago Hotel (1939), Elizabeth House (1940) and extensions to the Mirboo North Butter Factory (1949).
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.