Kew is such a magical place. Evolving from the royal pleasure grounds into the botanical gardens that we know today. It was to here that in 1768 Joseph Banks sent seeds whilst on Captain Cook's voyage to the South Seas.
I love drilling down from a complex construct of the past (such as a cathedral) to the patina on its walls which holds more complexity than the building itself. A universe in the particular.
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More than any other cathedral, Portsmouth has a complicated and layered history that, unusually, includes some major C20th interventions.
J.B Priestley equated the time continuum to an omelette. Add Inglesham to the mix and time is a soufflé. Inglesham is like an odd bend in the road of time.
Instantly the animal is alive - its head is a blintering mass of moving light which spills out onto the column behind, begetting the head with a sparkling, animated body.
The fabric is mainly C12th and C15th but the paint scheme is of the 1870's from the hand of the incumbent at the time.
St. John the Baptist in Inglesham was a place that taught me how to see.
The road less travelled..
