National Gallery of Modern Art entrance grounds, designed by Charles Jenks.this was the day i there to see the Tracey Emin exhibition. i had been sitting outside the studios in the little courtyard another artist and i had cleaned up and got plants and made into a nice sitting-in place.
i was feeling a bit fed up. we were talking about courage it takes to put work 'out there', and how without that its barely possible to begin making work.
been out of the habit of making work for so long. poeple say different things; well- either 'you just have to start - make a lot of crap and eventually it comes' - or - 'oh, you never loose it, you'll get it back' - or - 'oh you definately loose it if you leave it long enough' ........
so anyway. this day (whenever it was) this pal just said - 'courage? you want to go and see Tracey Emin exhibition' and walked off. and i went back up to my studio thinking, yes i have been meaning to go and i will go... and i started pottering about - tomorrow - tomorrow. No! Go NOW! oh ok, walk along the Water Of Leith, a lovely walk - (leg a wee bit nippy but i can make it) (rain possible but who cares about a little water) (time enough to get there and spend an hour)..
off i set - can you see the heron?! this walk starts just over
the road from the studio.that's St Bernard's Well, there is a story about it which i cant remember, but they do open it up now and then so you can go inside - its an old 'healing' spring well i think. it is almost impossible to edit this - type in text - keep pics in any relevant order at all so this is all muddled up and useless. am so frustrated i will stop. just to say this was meant to be pics of a walk along the Water of Leith.
there is a weir along the way
and you get to the old Dean Village eventually and have to cross to the next bit of the walk - and here i saw a ginger cat posing in a round window
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