Truly it is now spring here in The Hague. These flowers are a gift from the dear owner of the house, Eduard, and come from the garden. We've had weeks of sunny, warm weather. April can be the nicest month in Holland and also the most deceptive. Our first year here, April was magnificent. It was just like this April, warm enough to sit outside at noon, and sunny day after day. It lulled us into a sense of false security, even comfort. What treachery! We were absolutely and completely betrayed in the months that followed. It was the summer that never came. It was a heat-on-in-August kind of summer; bone-chilling wind, rain and low-lying clouds. Then, winter came. To be honest it was hard to tell the difference. Well, except that it was darker. May this summer be different!
Pictured: Jos, Nanneke, T, at the remote Insel Hombroich museum in Germany near Dusseldorf. This museum would be a great place to stage an album cover, all the elements are here in the picture.
We loved this museum for how it is curated. There are no explanations given for any of the artwork. Stone-age sculptures are shown side by side with modern paintings. No information about any of the work is presented, not even a tag to show the year the work was created, the title, or the name of the artist. It changes how one experiences the artwork. Rather than reading, we looked. It felt right.
The museum is on an old military base. The site has been restored to a nature preserve, with a series of stand-alone buildings created specifically to hold art. This was a great day.
Truly it is now spring here in The Hague. These flowers are a gift from the dear owner of the house, Eduard, and come from the garden. We've had weeks of sunny, warm weather. April can be the nicest month in Holland and also the most deceptive. Our first year here, April was magnificent. It was just like this April, warm enough to sit outside at noon, and sunny day after day. It lulled us into a sense of false security, even comfort. What treachery! We were absolutely and completely betrayed in the months that followed. It was the summer that never came. It was a heat-on-in-August kind of summer; bone-chilling wind, rain and low-lying clouds. Then, winter came. To be honest it was hard to tell the difference. Well, except that it was darker. May this summer be different!
We had a great model at the IAC the other week, and here are a couple of the images from that series.
