A friend and I drove (were driven) down to Multan today, which is where I am now. It was not a entirely smooth journey, as yesterday the driver who was supposed to take us called in sick with the hiccups so we had to arrange an alternative at some inconvenience. Then we left in the […]
Feelin judgy
Someone asked about wireless earphones that could be used in a 15 minute sauna. A sharp intake of breath from all the Finns, and this startling response: We really should be wiped off this planet. The other thing that had me feeling really judgy was this article in the Guardian: ‘I was asked to find […]
A very large box
A sibling was leaving today and taking along a very large oil painting. It couldn’t be removed from the frame as it was hammered in so enthusiastically that there was a risk the canvas would tear. So I had a very large box constructed, a centimetre larger on all sides than the painting, which would […]
More art
A little more Art today, this time in the walled city. One I liked. It was in an old assembly hall just outside the city. There were some very nice cartographic pieces on paper cutouts, a large one of the world of Tipu Sultan’s grandson, and a massive Boschian 2-parter. A few more forgettable ones, […]
Change of plan
A quiet day today, with a couple of meetings and a bit of work, and a bit of not going to a biennale event after it changed the starting time for the third time, this time a couple of hours before the actual starting time, which did not leave me confident that it would start […]
Mighty wind
Last night there was a mighty storm, an andhi that blew dust and tree branches every where and brought the temperature down by several degrees. Something crashed mightily, bringing three of the four people in the dashing out into the cold wind, but it was too dark and windy to see. I suspected, we all […]
Art attack
Today was the first proper day of the Lahore biennale and also Imran Khan’s birthday, so much of the city was in lockdown against a birthday dharna. In the morning (or, correctly, around noon, which is morning in Lahore) I went to one of the galleries which I thought was likely to be accessible but […]
Not the bestest
And written under a pseudonym, but here’s a piece I wrote for a friend recently.
Hand work
We’re going to London in a month or so. Last time I took some time to go off to Devon by myself, this time I’ve booked myself weekly lessons on making Japanese style woodblocks. I wanted to do something physical, so not writing or learning something, and also creative. The other option of this sort […]
Winter returns
Winter returned to Istanbul. It was cold and rainy all day long so we did our usual thing on such days and went to Cihangir to buy groceries, despite the carefully angled hills to catch the cold wind and the slopes down which the rain turns into muddy torrents over cobblestones. But that was later […]