I’m living at the shore of the North Sea,
most of the year we strive to keep warm, today we had to go looking for shade – summer is visiting …
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It has been, to put it mildly, one hell of a week. A dreadful decision to sell Stavanger’s most important public sculpture – Figure for Landscape by Barbara Hepworth – has kept my mind & pen busy. But profit seekers were not to be stopped, even if we were many who opposed –
– Stavanger has lost an invaluable treasure. Last Wednesday Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE’s ‘Figure for Landscape’ was sold for GBP 4,170,500 at auction at Christie’s in London.
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Now, safely placed in this magical peaceful countryside, I hope to re-find my balance, to return to my life-giving reading and writing, and to continue blogging – .
sub rosa 
It is very sad when public art, which is after all the patrimony of the public, is sold off for short term gain by a few people who are supposed after all to be the guardians of that patrimony. Is that the empty plinth in the photo? Perhaps some artist-anarchist can make a satirical replacement for the plinth?
An empty plinth – a sad sight…