Day: 8 June 2012

Looking & Seeing – No 14

Having an HD digital camera on your IPhone is great but if you really want to ‘see’ something you have to use a sketchbook. Here is a drawing made under extreme conditions, standing on the walls of Dubrovnik in 35 degrees, drawing as we circumnavigated the city defensive walls. What is magical about the city is the way it conveys its ‘DNA’. Originally a Roman city built between the cliffs

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More productive landscapes

Another drawing is emerging. This seems to be a set of defensible houses located in the shallow mouth of a Western estuary. Some time ago they were flooded after an unusually high tide. You can just see the lines of the walls rising out of the surface built up out of assembled stones in frames and roughly cast blocks located on the windward side. You can also see copper bottomed boats

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