Duality exemplified in this image: dark and light, permanence and decay, circle and square, symbolised by pairs: two pairs of flowers, two glasses, two pomegranates, one split in four...

a sunset over Etna from Taormina, the Lady of the Rock chapel

Doddington Place has been the home of the Oldfield family for more than a century. The many-gabled brick house was designed by the Victorian architect Charles Brown Trollope and built around 1870 for Sir John Croft of the port and sherry family.

An image that built itself in the late hours in the dark...

Inevitably it is necessary to give a historical perspective of this yearly festival that takes place in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. The celebration transforms and stimulates the social life of La Paz every year, emanating from a particular way of understanding and living Andean Catholicism. The Parade begins with a procession through the western part of the city. This procession is central to the event, involving 40,000 devotees who dance and sing in an offering to the patron saint. The dance has a sacred significance for the sixty-nine fraternities involved, which are greeted in the streets in a euphoric atmosphere where the music of 7,000 musicians resonates. It is so owe inspiring that it is rightfully a UNESCO Wold Heritage event (Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity). The image venerated with dance and music is believed to have arrived in the city at the founding of the convent of the Mothers of the Sacred Conception on the 8th of December 1663.

At the request of my brother who saw these objects on my wall...

"Ring them bells for the blind and the deaf. Ring them bells for all of us who are left. Ring them bells for the chosen few who will judge the many when the game is through..." Bob Dylan. Ring Them Bells

Discovered these two images while revising old folders: Rio Abajo, Bolivia, 2017

A reflection on religion and its disorientation: Mary faded in the foreground and the Anfgel addressing her in the background....

The Self as a figurehead