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SylvaC Stories: Bunny Boilers.
Once upon a time, rather more years ago than I care to remember, I found a dear little green pottery bunny in a junk shop on the Isle of Wight. As I have a predilection for green ceramic items I … Continue reading
Posted in ceramics, Pleionexia, Uncategorized
Tagged art, bunnies, ceramics, collectors, Greed, parasite, pleionexia, Plumbing, shelf life, SylvaC
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La Fontana delle Scimmie.*
*warning blog post contains references to Florence (again) This is the Museo delle Porcellane di Boboli, an exquisitely faded small palazzo in the gardens of the Pitti Palace. It has a superb collection of porcelain and chinaware and delicious … Continue reading
Posted in Boboli Personality, ceramics, Pleionexia
Tagged art, boboli personality, ceramics, consumption, Florence, la Specola, museum, pleionexia, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, sculpture
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We Have Lost the Taste for Acorns.
About 2000 years ago the Roman philosopher Lucretius wrote: “We have lost our taste for acorns. So we have abandoned those couches littered with herbage and heaped with leaves. So the wearing of wild beasts’ skins has gone out of fashion … Continue reading
Posted in ceramics, Pleionexia, Uncategorized
Tagged acorns, Aristotle, art, Lucretius, oak, pleionexia, sculpture, slugs, Tinkers Bubble
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Egrets: I Have a Few.
Ever since I came back from Florence I’ve been thinking about egrets. In fact, I’ve already written about them here: The Lake of Lettuce The one pictured above is a lesser egret – you can tell by the black beak and … Continue reading
Posted in Boboli Personality, ceramics, Pleionexia, Uncategorized
Tagged art, Audubon, boboli personality, ceramics, consumption, earthenware, egrets, EKWC, Florence, river Arno
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Sermons in Stones
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.” As You Like It, Shakespeare I understand that Duke Senior was … Continue reading
Posted in Boboli Personality, Uncategorized
Tagged art, as you like it, boboli personality, Colbost, Cuillins, Florence, pareidolia, Pitti Palace, Santa Croce, Sgùrr Dearg, Shakespeare, Skye
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Funeral Baked Meats
They don’t seem to be worrying about the alleged carcinogenic qualities of processed meat in Italy. I have never seen so many hams in one place in my life. And they are available in nice sweaty little packs for those … Continue reading
Posted in Boboli Personality
Tagged alabaster, art, boboli personality, consumption, Greed, Lady Gaga, pleionexia, Trimalchio's Feast
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The Nautilus Cup
This drawing is an illustration from my third positioning paper. I had been exploring notions of greed or pleionexia in Dutch pronkstilleven painting from the Seventeenth century. I have already mentioned that there is a disturbing under current which runs below the surface of … Continue reading
Posted in Boboli Personality, Pleionexia
Tagged art, boboli personality, consumption, Florence, pleionexia
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A Cloud for a Robe, Rainbows for Tassels.
Someone sits in a mountain vale A robe of clouds, rainbows for tassels The fragrant forest is the place to live The road has been long and difficult With a heart full of doubt and regret A life has passed … Continue reading
Posted in Boboli Personality, Pleionexia
Tagged art, boboli personality, consumption, Hanchan, Milton, Sabrina
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White Founts Falling in the Courts of the Sun
There are a lot of drinking water fountains in Florence. And some of them have been there for a long time. This one, near the San Lorenzo market, has lost its nose, presumably by the long term erosion of water … Continue reading
Posted in Boboli Personality, Pleionexia
Tagged alabaster, art, boboli personality, consumption, Florence, fountains, G K Chesterton, Lepanto, water
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Daisy in a Jelly Glass
“Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. I have been thinking about glass and its bewitching qualities and that has led me to that rather mawkish quote. … Continue reading