curiouser & curiouser

you might not expect a dairy products warehouse to be one of the cultural outposts of educated cynicism ... but as i approached a slightly cross-eyed young polish forklift driver whilst making a delivery to a refrigerated warehouse near woking, he greeted me thus ...

"good morning, oedipus !"

... which he pronounced oy-dip-uss

i pointed out that i am neither clever nor blind ... yet

old man's beard ... sodden

a good job our bus was late & i missed the previous stop ...

...or we might have missed bumping into these lovely people

http://www.pearlysociety.co.uk/

fancy door posts at the natural history museum

twilight in the natural history museum

at the natural history museum, the medium, presumably, is the message

i can resist anything, except temptation ...

... safe hands at the V&A

after a long week, we return to the gamble dining room in the V&A on friday night for a posh curry and a large glass of orgasmic merlot

the poynter dining room in the V&A at night

and they even have authentic town mice that scamper out from behind the skirting boards in search of crumbs

chihuly in the V&A at night

a drawing master once told me it was sometimes helpful to look at your work upside down in order to see it with "fresh eyes" and to satisfy doubts about the balance & integrity of the design

the courtyard at the V&A

compare and contrast gandharan buddhas

gandharan buddhas c.4th century from brighton and from the V&A

? looted from the same temple ?

symbiosis in the grounds of ashdown forest hotel

to south kensington and the V&A for an excellent ( and free ) sunday lecture

the V&A ... the excellence of every art must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

these panels above the main entrance to the V&A were made by Drury, the same man that made those huge figures on the downstream side of vauxhall bridge

http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/search?q=allegorical+figures+by+drury

in the norfolk house music room ... saved for the V&A from the 1938 demolition

http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/events/friday_evenings/index.html

cornelia parker's "breathless" at the V&A

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/british_galls/galleries/55/index.html

chaucer, on glass, and on paper ... by william morris

just how long does it take to cook a dragon's head ?

strawberry hill gothick transferred to the V&A

in the ironwork gallery