Monthly Archives: February 2015

One walk, many skies

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Helen White

It was one of those bright and reasonably warm February afternoons where the sun is acute and golden in a bright blue sky yet it was already working on producing some wonderful contrast, whipping up clouds into monumental formations, sculpting … Continue reading →

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Two exhibitions: a day of unlikely marriages

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Helen White

This week, I visited two art exhibitions in Oxford that have been in my diary for a long time. At the first, I was greeting on entry by the immense William Morris tapestry “The Attainment” with its depiction of the … Continue reading →

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Where the circle meets the line

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Helen White

Another trip of the heart just completed; a revisit to Avebury’s stones only, this time, for a weekend so that we could explore that ancient landscape further, go for total emersion and take our time joining many dots. I’ve talked … Continue reading →

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The river (always) tells its story

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Helen White

This is just a small aside, an observation that felt too quietly significant to let it just slip by. On my walk along the rivers Whitewater and Blackwater in mid December (very close to where the White intersects with the … Continue reading →

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Winter light

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Helen White

For some time now, like one of those playful little projects saved up for nothing but the enjoyment of doing them, I’d been meaning to compile a video made up my of all the tiny snippets of footage of winter … Continue reading →

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La petite mort

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Helen White

Its been a super-intense week. First, a crash into…what?…intense physical pain, overwhelm, leaden emotions the likes of which I could hardly remember (though I knew their demeanour well enough to realise we had met before); this all came from nowhere … Continue reading →

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