Art, Latin, Writing and other things that matter
Cambridge Section 6, A Public Fight, Introducing Felix. Tablet inscriptions. Ovid Metamorphoses – Daedelus and Icarus
(The Ovid has been modified and given as prose, due to its very difficult nature. )
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Cambridge Book 1, Section 5. Marcus in school in Rome, Circe’s Island Part 2.
In Cambridge Section 5 the actors are in town. In Rome Marcus and his fellow pupils are in class and around the town, and Ulysses is reunited with his crew.
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An Old Photo
I liked the idea of how the photo of a person never known, could have a huge influence on someone’s life.
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Vaughan Williams with his cat Foxy
It was this picture that made me begin this project. The idea that seeing a person whose image you are used to seeing in a certain way with a pet, can change your view of that person, or maybe just reinforce it.
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He had thoughts only for the Prima Donna
Written to the idea of that first line
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The Roman Family on Holiday: The Story of the Trojan Horse: Circe’s Island Part 1
This weeks’s session included Cambridge Book 1, Section 4, The Roman Family on holiday, and two “unseens”, the Trojan Horse, and Ulysses on Circe’s Island
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Grayson Perry and his cat Kevin
I was hoping to get a view of Grayson and Kevin together during the Second Episode of Grayson Perry’s Art Club (Channel 4, 8.00 p.m. on Mondays.) but Kevin is much too fast on his paws. I just kept getting glimpses of him disappearing around the furniture, and only one close up of his face and those marvelous eyes. Inspired by the programme i am going to have a go at a digital portrait.
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The Bee Woman
I met a man who told me very shyly that his name was Kermit. “Of course” , he said “there were no gabby green frogs around when I was born, and I am really OK with my name once I am over the first introductions.” But what, I thought, if your given name had darker connections? And so I imagined this old lady sitting our on her porch in the fading evening light, talking about her life.
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Pablo Picasso and Lump
I read the story of Picasso and Lump and how they came to be sharing their lives by the photographer David Douglas Duncan, who was Lump’s original owner, and decided to try a portrait of them together.
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