Location – Location – Location!.....Exhibition – Exhibition – Exhibition!......Robinson R.R………Shane MacGowan...
by Bernie Bell - 09:05 on 30 November 2023
Location – Location – Location!.....
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/the-importance-of-place/
My tuppenceworth….
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Exhibition – Exhibition – Exhibition!...
This exhibition is going to be a dooooozy!!!!
https://www.facebook.com/vernon.bradley.397
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Robinson R.R………
Ralph Robinson posted a picture of one of his sculptures on his Facebook page…
https://www.facebook.com/raymond.robinson.904108
……..and someone asked him to explain it – which he did.
This prompted me to write of how I see it. Here goes…
The St. George’s Cross represents the country of England, now it’s often used as a chant by xenophobic people…… ”Engerland! Engerland! Engerland!…” - including those who don't like Britain being a member of the European Community – possibly represented by the stars.
The true cross reminds us of a time when someone gave himself up as a sacrificial offering and was hurt and died to show the world that selflessness and kindness is a good way.
I have always found it hard to understand why a religion which promotes the teachings of such a good person has as its symbol a hurt man nailed to a cross.
On one of the arms of the cross – a small ‘boat people’ sculpture. People trying to find their way.
Humanity . A background of brutishness, with good-will and kindness too - trying to find our way.
That’s how I see it. All art-work produces individual responses. How you see it, is how you see it.
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I've just heard the news....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_MacGowan
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+pogues+youtube
It’s not just about ‘Fairy Tale of New York’….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11BuatTuXk
I wrote this to a friend some years ago….
“I'm reading a book called 'Stories from the Other Side', by Gordon Smith. Gordon Smith is an exceptionally gifted Medium. He writes of a meeting with Shane MacGowan (lead singer with a band called The Pogues). I'll transcribe what's in the book......
"Next came an Irish poet from the Victorian era who said he had been with him (Shane) in spirit during his days in Kent. " I was born in Kent", said Shane, which surprised me because I regarded him as a quintessential Irishman. "Yes, I was born in England, and I hated England!."
"Nevertheless", I said, "this man was guiding you and you had psychic visions of him and this guy actually gave you songs, he pointed you in the direction of his poems which you have turned into songs". This, he (Shane) said, was all true.
Later the journalist told me that she had often come to the house and Shane had locked himself in the bathroom to write the very music that went with the words of the nineteenth-century Irish poet James Clarence Mangan who gave voice to Irish nationalism before and during the famine years and, ironically, was melancholic, alcoholic and almost certainly addicted to opium."
Shane MacGowan is a gifted man, but an alcoholic, and melancholic, and who can blame him?
How much inspiration comes from us, and how much is given to us?
I thought you might be interested in this example of artistic transference.”
I’d say ‘rest in Peace’ but I somehow doubt that he’d want to? Maybe he’s gone ’where streams of whisky are flowing’….
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/03/19/a-different-kind-of-rock-art-part-twelve/
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