Posts Tagged: paintings
Lovely Lourdes and some garments
On December 14, 2019
- religious objects
“Bernadette, people are searchin’ for the kind of love that we possess
Some go on searchin’ their whole life through
And never find the love I’ve found in you …”
(Four Tops in Bernadette)
Liège (B)
Tintin in Charleroi, fleeing from the elephant
On March 25, 2019
- Street Scenes
"He thought he saw an Elephant That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realize,' he said, 'The bitterness of Life!'" (Lewis Carroll no title) Charleroi (B)
Solo on an old wall
On May 27, 2016
- Street Scenes
"But age apace Comes at last to all; And a lone house filled With the cricket's call; And the scampering mouse In the hollow wall." (Walter de la Mare in Alone) Namur (B)
There is a pain in playing
On October 18, 2015
- Street Scenes
“I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.”
(T.S. Eliot in Preludes IV)
Ougrée (B)
Echo’s on a wall
On February 24, 2015
- Street Scenes
“An echo it may be, floating past;
A shadow it may be, fading fast:
Shadow or echo, we ride, we ride
We ride by moor and hill.”
(H. Newbolt in Hope the Hornblower)
Liège-Chênée (B)