being and becoming in the world
I recently came across the above portrait in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. It is a portrait that stopped me, I think because of the young man’s vivid … Continue reading Great Bicycle Races at Cambridge
On Friday, 22nd November 2019, I visited the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh to view the ‘MacKinnon Collection‘. Here are a few of the photographs [with added ‘borrowed words’]:
Edinburgh. The National Portrait Gallery: I came across the bust of Alexander McCall Smith: disembodied. I left the portrait gallery troubled. Impossible: To play this short film please click here … Continue reading Impossible
Yesterday I met up with a musician in the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. But first of all I went to say hello to Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson. His bust was … Continue reading And the artist . . .