Andrew Ray

@highamnews Lovely Shakkei for us. Or more precisely linjie (隣借 "adjacent borrowing"). Will return the favour soon with our crabapple blossom.

The cherry tree has been blossoming in spitters and sputters since before Christmas. I worried it might have shot its bolt by March. Happily, it seems not…

@Uniformbooks Cheers Colin. Happy New Year!

Andrew Ray’s ‘Some Landscapes’ blog. @Some_landscapes some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2023/12/conway…

I loved reading Herzog’s book but sympathise with this view of it.

@Uniformbooks @PeterFoolen @andrew_wilson_a @thecoracler We’ve got that! Bought years ago off Tom Clark at the Cairn Gallery.

@PeterFoolen @andrew_wilson_a @thecoracler No, it was put together and produced entirely by Trollo Ottenhausen, as was the Gappmayr 'Texts'.

Robert Lax, dark earth / night sky postcard, Aggie Weston’s Editions, 1985.

Further to my last tweet, I am now also on another social media platform as andrew-ray. youtu.be/aQUlA8Hcv4s

I've been reluctant to use X recently but haven't found an obvious alternative yet. Thought I'd just mention that the blog is still going - I have put a few new posts up this weekend, including this some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2023/11/lake-s…

Also on the newsletter: your chance to win a new paperback copy of @vegoutwithadam's 'The Seed Detective': plus, from the archive, @Some_landscapes on the high white cliffs of Sussex's Seven Sisters bit.ly/3EzlKMZ

Goethe born today in 1749. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2020/01/goethe…

We went to see China’s Hidden Century at the BM. The 19th century was full of calamities, but the Taiping Rebellion was particularly destructive. This scroll shows Tang Yifen’s Garden of Pleasure in 1848, five years before he drowned himself when Taiping forces took Nanjing.

The chestnut woods are now inexpressibly beautiful, for the chestnuts have become large, and add a new richness to the full foliage. We see here Jupiter in the east; and Venus, I believe, as the evening star, directly after sunset. P. B. Shelley to T. L. Peacock, 16 August 1818

My morning's have started with a cup of tea and opening the iPad to check out Mubi's film of the day. Such a shame not to have that small thrill of expectation anymore.

Brice Marden admired Chinese calligraphy, Shitao's treatise on painting, the tradition of scholar's rocks and Chinese and Japanese gardens, with their capacity to distill "the energy of the landscape". some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2012/05/cold-m…

We’ve been listening to the new Belbury Poly album this morning, narrated by @oldweirdalbion. thequietus.com/articles/33272…

Józef Czapski on Corot.

Just added a postscript with two new photographs to this old blog post. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2007/05/view-o…

Saw some interesting landscape art in Kraków this week. This is by Konrad Krzyżanowski - ‘Clouds in Finland’ (1908).

A favourite of mine too.

@Uniformbooks @PeterFoolen @briangdillon Corb ‘wrecked the serenity of its interiors and subverted her architectural vision in a jealous fit of artistic aggression. That there was a subconscious sexual component to Le Corbusier’s act is suggested by his having painted the murals in the nude’! nybooks.com/articles/2020/…

@PeterFoolen Interesting shelving, and very interesting light switches (KY!) I've just been reading @briangdillon's excellent 'Affinities' and his essay about Gray's work 'On not getting the credit'; and Gavin Morrison wrote about E-1027 in 'Uniformagazine' no.5, below.

Earlier today, a tour in and around the restored Villa E-1027 designed and built by Eileen Gray and her partner the architect Jean Badovici, in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, near Menton.

A Thomas Girtin graphic novel… theguardian.com/books/2023/jun…

A piece on Bernie Krause prompted by an exhibition in San Francisco. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…