Another old ride report, in which I seem to be channelling P.G. Wodehouse. This ride, up to Scarborough, included a crossing of the Humber Bridge, which will also feature on this year’s Edinburgh-London. It’s an elegant structure, and also a popular suicide spot (a fact that becomes readily comprehensible when you ride through Barton-on-Humber)…
The Humber Bridge on a sunny day. Here’s hoping…
It was well worth braving the half-term hordes at the Hayward Gallery for this. Standouts were Carlos Cruz Diez’s Chromosaturation (a blue room, a red room, and a green room, sort of), Olafur Eliasson’s Timeless Garden (fountains frozen by strobe light in stop-time animation), and James Turrell’s Wedgework (a Rothko built from light).
I was strangely soothed…
A Turrell Wedgework
If you’re interested in modern Russian art (and you are, right?), I can recommend the current two-fer exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. A sample:
Photo by Vikentiy Nilin (1993 onwards). Is that guy really sitting there? No idea…
You know… The feeling you get after you’ve dragged yourself round some “easy” winter ride. I-can-just-about-manage-this-but-there’s-no-way-I’m-going-to-be-able-to-ride-further-than-this. Continue reading »