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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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Cracking Sugar in Heaven
I’ve just discovered the poems of Rumi embarrassingly late in life. And the line “The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I.” reminded me of these beautiful parrots from the great fireplace at Hospitalfield … Continue reading
Posted in Pleionexia
Tagged acts of small scale violence, alabaster, art, consumption, Greed, hen and chickens, Hospitalfield, parrot faced goblin, pleionexia, Rumi, sculpture
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