‘Halfway’……..Volcanic Neolithic………From Kilmorack Gallery…..
by Bernie Bell - 08:35 on 31 January 2025
“Halfway
Pre-chemo oncology telephone appointment today, and I’m somewhat cheered. My bloods show my PSA holding steady, and my renal function back to normal. The recent CT scan that picked up my latest pulmonary embolism also shows that my lymph nodes are shrinking, which is what the chemo is supposed to achieve. Yes to shrinking! Tomorrow’s treatment is number four, which means I’ll be over halfway through.
As it goes, I reckon I’m somewhere close to halfway through the writing of ‘The Breaking Wave’. The first third is now up on my ancient non-internet desktop, and is somewhere towards a second draft. Now I’ve started to write up another 20k words from my handwritten draft onto the computer.
Also halfway through is the Desert Island Discs list that one of the main characters is putting together, and struggling with. This has sent me to my own Desert Islands playlist on Qobuz (I’m ready to go, but does Lauren Laverne ever ring?)
Being greatly cheered by both chemo and book being about halfway through, I thought I’d cheer everyone up by today’s soundtrack pick. On Desert Island Discs (DM me for my phone number, Lauren) they often ask why the castaways choose such and such a track.
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Jan 27
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Volcanic Neolithic…..
This is very interesting – or, I think it is!...
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/link-bornholm-research/
Was this the root of so much change in ways of seeing and being?
They looked to the skies – then the skies darkened. Imagine it.
At first glance, I saw the carving on the right as representing tree rings. Maybe it is?
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From Kilmorack Gallery…
“News letter from the vaults
It’s thirty years since Kilmorack Gallery began to emerge. The first two of these was preparing the old church for its opening in 1997. And the future? There's lots planned.
Kilmorack's first two-person exhibition, showed Helen Denerley's sculpture and James Hawkins's paintings. It showed what would become favourite qualities to look for in artists - ambition, beauty and wildness.
One of the gallery's most exciting moments was its retrospective exhibition of Gerald Laing's work in 2002. It is an exhibition I would love to see repeated in a major public space. There are few Scottish artists so international in outlook and so woven into the tapestry of timeless art.
In 2008, an exhibition of paintings and sculpture inspired by words brought more wonders to the gallery.
Hollow, an exhibition of 'the empty bits.' This was an exhibition by two of my favourite artists - Helen Denerley and Peter White. It showed that what is not there is often just as important as what remains.
The talented Macdonald family were brought together last March. Alan, Carolynda and Rory Macdonald took us to places of brilliance and wonder, reminding us that it is important to be mostly playful and only occasionally serious.
Kilmorack Gallery
Inverness-shire
IV4 7AL
01463 783 230
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