{"id":3395,"date":"2017-01-22T21:03:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T21:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2023-06-27T18:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:11:17","slug":"today-i-saw-angela-carter-chagall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=3395","title":{"rendered":"today I saw Angela Carter & Chagall"},"content":{"rendered":"

paying attention<\/span>: it’s great to take a photograph
\n& then see things in it<\/span> one did not notice at the<\/span> time of shooting <\/span><\/span>. . . <\/span>
\nhere’s an example – one of my <\/span>favourite trees in urban Bristol<\/span>
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\ngoing round a fairly empty exhibition is such a treat,
\na chance to really pay attention:
\nStrange Worlds: The Vision of\u00a0 Angela Carter,
\n<\/em>at The RWA, is full of treasures
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\nfrom Corinna Sargood’s linocuts illustrating
\nCarter’s Virago Book of Fairytales
\n(Tattooed Lady) ….
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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…to Chagall’s The Blue Circus<\/em> –
\nin these times of virtual viewing<\/span>
\nit’s so easy to overlook the privilege of seeing
\noriginal work in RL – an actual<\/em> Chagall!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nsome maintain that one of the most tangible
\nexpressions of love is paying attention<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nthe lovely John Berger, who died on 2nd January 2017,
\nwas a man of huge generosity and spirit
\nwho\u00a0<\/span>paid deep attention to ways of seeing and thinking.
\n<\/span>
\nHe said If I’m a story teller it’s because I<\/em> <\/span>listen.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nSimon<\/span> McBurney tweeted<\/span>
\nListener, grinder of lenses, poet, painter, seer.
\nMy Guide. Philosopher. Friend.
\nJohn Berger left us this morning.
\nNow you are everywhere<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

an artist who paid a lot of attention to everything around him
\nover a working life of six decades is Robert Rauschenberg<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nthere’s an exhibition of his work at Tate Modern ’til April 2nd 2017,
\nand this 59mn long BBC documentary is an illuminatinging tribute
\nto both him and his work: avail on Youtube
\n<\/span><\/p>\n