Art for art's sake

I will look at the reviews of this book, Rainee. My visit to Guernica is something I reccomend for the traveller, but for the Basque region is a beautiful location. The atmosphere of Guernica is something that hits you straight away. Without knowing, you just know that something awful happened here, not dissimilar to Oradour-sur-Glane in France, a place I would not  recommend visiting unless you'd be made of steel. 

Guernica is repaired but will never be 'old Guernica'   You can repair it, unlike Oradour-sur-Glane but you sense the change. Just like cancer and the old life is changed. But like Guernica, you begin to live within the old. As in my case, my broken body does not prevent me from living. The battle is over, yes. But cancer cannot destroy my spirit, just like Guernica. Nice analogy.

Brighton is a place for street art but look at this. How to advertise veganism. Paint it on the end of a property.  I became vegan 30 Years ago. It was a life choice.  

I can identify with this. Many years ago I did a photo-shoot on the island of Crete in a village called Myrtious. It is a half ruin and full of widows in black. The local guide book warns that if you are German, not to alight here off the bus. I was sat in the church yard changing a roll of film when the elderly caretaker and her husband came out to question me and when they knew I was 'Angleeka' I was welcomed into the family taverna, fed and watered and somewhat 'adopted' by them. I returned several times and the experience remains with me to this day: virtually all their young men had been rounded up and disposed of from the bridge in nearby Rhodakino into the gorge below. You cannot snap an atmosphere, but I still have the pictures and I still can feel it.  Sorry to get maudlin but there it is.  Rainie x

And have you heard that Hayward's Heath council have become the first - and I hope not the last - to adopt the Plant -based Treaty?  Ordinary people trying to do something, whilst the collective Nero's of this planet fiddle whilst Rome burns.   I know Brighton quite well as my daughter lives nearby at Portslade. Rainie x

"I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.”........ Ricky Skaggs

We may not have control, but we can choose how to respond.

Picture - Sailing home.

That's a nice calm one. 

Lovely colours x

Lovely picture, very calming 

Albert Bierstadt around 1850 Luminism period in art.

Would you say sunset or sunrise?

Not sure.im would guess sunset 

Looks peaceful though x