INSIGHTS
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12
JULY - 2003
366 vertical insights in the private life of RGF for a better understanding of his work by the 'accidental navigator'. This project will be made with one year + a day of images and texts.
01 - 07 - 03: GLASGOW. Just one big blue
plaster band for the double wound that I inflicted to myself when I was polishing the copper
plate...
02 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
REGENT TERRACE. First news in
the morning: the Diane Arbus' photograph had fallen down...
and it could have been
worse!!
03 - 07 - 03:
EDINBURGH:
REGENT TERRACE. Taking
advantage of the good weather we climb to the roof to check the drainage
channels.
04 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
REGENT TERRACE. The noises that I heard at dawn
were not made by ghosts but by the birds that pull down the ' structure' where they come to eat.
05 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
REGENT TERRACE. 'The Spirit of
Scotland' (by G. Wyllie) with stones from the 32 Scottish counties, can be seen from
my home windows.
06 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
REGENT TERRACE. Every year Wimbledon seems less
interesting. This time what I liked best was that M. Navratilova won for twentieth time
(mixed doubles)
07 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH: CRUISING
CORNER. Princess St. - West Register St. (Going to M&S to buy
basil tagliatelle )
08 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
The client's card of Greyfriars Art Shop that Keith gave me... 20 years
ago (more or less) has the nº 29.
09 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
The bridge that I have crossed so many times
for the past 26 years will be substituted by a 'modern' one (and clean I
hope)
10 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
VISIT. John B.
(with his traditional flower bouquet) on his way to Brighton to
rehearse his next production.
11 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
THE OTHER DAY. With
her hands blackened with ink, Denise W.
came in the office while David was telling us about the heat wave that he
suffered in Italy (like us)
12 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
MUSIC. The painting I'm working on (CDV
IV) has -among others,- music
by Heitor Villa-Lobos (Bachianas
Brasileiras Nº 5)
13 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
REGENT
TERRACE REVISITED. This year Sarah G.
returned with Rowland S., Lara
&...Rebecca. to her grandmother's old house (where we met her in 1977 when
she was studying Fine Arts)
14 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
VISIT TO. After having dinner in Pam
& Sandy B.'s
house we all went to the garden
(at night) to take the last pictures for 'The Ghost
Journey' 
15 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH.
In these hot weather days,
it feels like
rediscovering the Landform by C. Jencks in the Museum of Modern Art.
16 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH: REGENT
TERRACE. The fruit bowl.
17 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
REGENT
TERRACE. The garbage bags broken by the
seagulls searching for food... Edinburgh is such a beautiful city!!
18 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH. And with the
hot weather... the 'haar' has arrived 
19 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH. As I did'nt
stop painting early enough... I arrived to see the gay pride parade when it has already
ended.
20 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH: CRUISING
CORNER. Princess St. - South Saint Andrew St. (Going to the
Filmhouse to see the italian film 'Days'.
8 out of 10)
21 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH.
The streets are littered
with the chewing gums that people throw away... Edinburgh is such a beautiful city!!
22 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
MUSIC. The painting I'm working on (CDV
V) has -among others,- music
by Sibelius (Pelleas &
Melissande on BBC Radio 3)
23 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH: PRIVATE
GARDEN. A reserved area in it's center
is where J. Midgley's memoral 'who loved the garden' has been located
24 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH: CRUISING
CORNER. Chambers St. - West College St. (Coming from buying paintbrushes in
Greyfriars Art Shop)
25 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH: PRIVATE
GARDEN. At dusk...
the best time to go for a walk
in the garden.
26 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH: ONCE A
YEAR. A day out to celebrate Carlos' birthday (in advance) in Chinoise... and later to the cinema
(to see Luster)
27 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
REGENT TERRACE. After 27 years pulling the rope (to
take up and down the drying rack)... it broken and it could have been
worse!!
28 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
ONE YEAR AGO IN... NORTHUMBERLAND.
It was difficult to find the ' Angel of the North' but at the end it was
worthy.
29 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
ONE YEAR AGO IN... NORTHUMBERLAND.
Although the Farne Islands had many seals and
birds... Bass Rock still my favorite.
30 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH:
IN MEMORIAM. How
odd are the memories about my uncle in the 50's: the instant coffee and
learning English at home. (In
Memoriam Manolo Fernández)
31 - 07 - 03: EDINBURGH.
In Holyrood
Park the wind was so strong that the kites were very difficult to control.