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what are the words at the bottom of your avatar?

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they give the gallery and date and artist's name (andy goldsworthy) for the sculpture.

what do massachusetts, pennsylvania and southern england all have in common?

Have you visited the stone egg up at Goldsworthy's home, just outside Penpont, Dumfriesshire?

neuroman - they all have an a, an e, and an s in them.

curiousprimate - nooooo! is it good? /me is jealous...

I admit my wife, who is a full time artist, found it profoundly moving.

I was facinated by the way he had constructed it, the apparently smooth surface he was able to produce from discontiguous slabs using dry-stone-walling techniques, the way it emerged from an extremely small base and expanded to almost a metre in width, and the way he had used local Dumfries red sandstone. (I'm an engineer at heart.)

I did feel a sort of one-ness with the earth in terms of a pagan stone monument, something which if left undisturbed could last for millennia (although situated in a field full of cows, that may not happen).

If you are ever up that way (take the A76 north out of Dumfries, turn off at Thornhill to Penpont, and when you get there drive around a bit, you'll see it atop a hill).

Have you seen any of his DVDs? They are truely engrossing. The man has such patience...

have you ever been to canada?

i have several goldsworthy books, and drool over them regularly. i love the ephemeral nature of so much of his stuff - he spends days making them, and then they disintegrate, naturally.

neuroman - no. do you think i should?

are your books wet from reading?

nah - i was exaggerating. the odd intake of breath or sigh, maybe even a sniffle - i find it very difficult to cry, even when i'm really upset

"the time traveller's wife" by audrey niffenegger is one such book - i found it extremely touching from about page 4...

is this jepoardy?
i do think you should visit canada.

you might see canada jack there.

now, that was a red herring. of sorts, anyway.

my turn to be cryptic.

we have to stop meeting like this.

Has the Vivi~Neuroman romance floundered?

lol - nah - we're both just posting less frequently.

of course, you could always revive it, in some way...

(/me wonders what on earth she actually means by that... )

Ah, apply some massage?

But to whom?

<closes door in Neuroman's face, and fixes bolt just in case>

Is there another way to change the poll on my justice thread

Also, how do I change the word 'phoenix'?
Supposedly after 500 posts I can make a message appear there instead.