Blue Garage: Sticks arranged; shadows; PS treated; 35year old paper tempates; faces

 Man in landscape: thin lines provide perspective; monoliths of rudimentary heads give scale

ever it was thus.

Contnuum

Cave painting > Ley Lines > Henges > Henry Moore > Kubrick's Blackbox

Haybridge Steel Works, 1978

The Artist is on the left in conversation with Graham, an electrician but one of the cleverest, deepest members of the maintainence team. Totally independent in a shy, diffident but always individual way. He was never cynical or cruel to people except at the 'killer moment' when he would make a comment so funny, evil but apposite.

Harold "Stan-uth". I was never sure of the spelling of his surname. Employed as a Blacksmith. He made replacement parts for heavy machinery. The processeses in the factory, using heat, caustic chemicals and brute force meant that the parts carrying or holding the product wore out quickly.

"Dickie" Stringer: Greaser. Officially he oiled and greased the machines. His other 'duties' at the bottom of the status chain often meant he spent a good deal of time on research and tea-making.

"Ronnie" Rigby: Fitter. Shortly after 4.00 he is thinking of hometime at 5.00.

Harold and his assistant often had no work to do. Where others hid or tried to 'look busy' they sat, implacable.

Roy and Clive: Fitter & Turner, important distinctions, particularly to Clive.

Iconic or small religious painting.

i·con·ic

/aɪˈkɒnɪk/ Show Spell[ahy-kon-ik]

–adjective

1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an icon.

2. Art . (of statues, portraits, etc.) executed according to a convention or tradition.

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Origin:
1650–60;  < L īconicus  < Gk eikonikós,  equiv. to eikon-  (s. of eikṓn ) icon  + -ikos -ic

At Art school I was led to believe that icons were small, mostly Russian Orthodox paintings that exemplify a particular figure or possibly, by extension idea. Overuse of iconic has reached such epic proportions that a column in Private Eye for uses of the word is overdue.

Great one tonight on Radio 4, 6 o'clock news by Caroline Spellman, presumably minister for slack and lazy statements. She spoke of "iconic forests".

Why we should be worried about bonsai trees in model villages I have no idea!

A selection of iconic images

Wroecenstan not fair, but swarthy Med types!

In "Origins of the British" (2006), Stephen Oppenheimer states (pages 375 and 378):

• "By far the majority of male gene types in the British Isles derive from Iberia (Spain and Portugal), ranging from a low of 59% in Fakenham, Norfolk to highs of 96% in Llangefni, north Wales and 93% Castlerea, Ireland. On average only 30% of gene types in England derive from north-west Europe. Even without dating the earlier waves of north-west European immigration, this invalidates the Anglo-Saxon wipeout theory..."

• "...75-95% of British Isles (genetic) matches derive from Iberia... Ireland, coastal Wales, and central and west-coast Scotland are almost entirely made up from Iberian founders, while the rest of the non-English parts of the British Isles have similarly high rates. England has rather lower rates of Iberian types with marked heterogeneity, but no English sample has less than 58% of Iberian samples..." 

So the Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Normans had little influence on my Western British Isles gene pool!

Chester Walls

... and then it rained really hard! So I got my new camera out and tried to find medieval or roman ghosts on duty on the walls.

but the camera and I did not "communicate in an orderly fashion" as the handbook suggested we should. Oh well, back to reading pages of barely comprehensible advice ...........

All work and no play macht.....

All work and no play makes Jack a dull dog
All dog and no play makes Jack a dull work..
Jack, all work and no play makes a dull dog
Jack a dull dog makes all work and no play
All work and no play makes Jack a dull dog
A work and no play makes Jack a dull dog
All work and no play makes Jack a dull dog
Makes a dull dog, Jack, all work and no play
Work and play all no makes Jack a dull dog
All play and no work makes Jack a dull dog

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