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Hanging around with some pillars of the community.

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Looking along between rows of tall, Doric pillars on the front of the Neo-classical Royal Scottish Academy

Walking through the avenue of branches at the fascinating - if somewhat pricey - Andy Goldsworthy exhibition at the RSA.

I liked this installation, to me it suggested some religious, ritual path from our ancient pagan history, when spirituality was more tied to Earth cycles.

Or a setting for a British folk-horror! The two are not incompatible 😀

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Off to the Andy Goldsworthy exhibition at the RSA. Damned expensive, but heard good things, so decided to treat myself

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/andy-goldsworthy-fifty-years

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The Andy Goldsworthy show was even better than I’d hoped. The transcendent hewn from ephemerality, from decay, from instability and insecurity. I was really struck by the clear and urgent sense that some of his work will outlast us all, and some of it will fade in the autumn’s gloom. There are so many things I want to say about this show, but not enough words (or at least I don’t have the words!).

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A photograph of Andy Goldsworthy’s work, Skylight, installed in the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. Hundreds of dried and hollowed pieces of reed mace (bullrushes) hang from the ceiling surrounding one of the building’s large multi-paned skylights. They are joined together and hang in a vast oval curtain that occupies most of the room. There is only a single “entry” point in the oval of the installation and this image is taken from the ground inside the oval looking up to the skylight. In front of the viewer is the huge hanging curtain of reeds, each essentially the same but each different, holding a special place for the light and directing us toward it.

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished ✧

The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished is an oil painting on canvas by English artist William Etty which is inspired by the Elgin Marbles and intended by the artist to provide a moral lesson on "the beauty of mercy". It shows a near-nude warrior whose sword has broken, forced to h...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Combat:_Woman_Pleading_for_the_Vanquished

A statue of #Queen #Victoria on the #RoyalScottishAcademy in #Edinburgh #ArtInArchitecture

#ViewFromABus : a couple of quick snaps from the upper deck on the way home this evening.

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View from front of upper deck of a double decker bus, looking west along Princes Street as sunset approaches, past the Mound and the Royal Scottish Academy

View from front of the upper deck of the double decker bus, looking west as sunset approaches, from Waterloo Place towards Princes Street

#Sphinx on the #roof of the #RoyalScottishAcademy in #Edinburgh #Scotland

This is one of the few examples of architectural sculptures on a pre-1940s Glasgow building by a female sculptor (and in fact I cannot think of any other examples off the top of my head).

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The former Metropolitan Vickers building on Waterloo Street in Glasgow. Built in 1925 in the modern classical style, this building is notable for the animal masks along its roof line.

These were created by Phyllis M. Bone. Famous for her animal sculptures, she became the first female Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1940.

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