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ooyah!

Jun 30, 2003, 22:36

“We are a part of nature, and therefore everything we make is natural.” Yes, that’s true philosophically but it’s hard to train your mind to hold the same positive view of a lot of the works of Man, like Stourport, for instance."

That one displaced my 3rd rib! So true, Stourport is a place that could have been a paradise and settled for chip wrappers and the most depressing amusement park in the Western Hemisphere ;-)

Head up river and marvel at Ribbesford Hall, last time I looked it's huge grey pepperpot towers were still giving the v's to modern intervention as it nestles in the lee of the woods. Then again, 3 miles further,Turner's painting of Dudley furnaces is turned right on it's head. The people who worked in that 8th level hell of grime and ming gave their sweat to the Earl Of Dusley who modified Witley Court that now stands in ruins nr Stourport. I spent a lot of time their dreaming and soaking up the haunting atmosphere, imagining the deer park and the toffs under the stars, and the giant fountain of Andromeda and Perseus shining in the moonlight takes left me thinking lofty thoughts wholly removed from socialism ;-)

Oddly enough, it was my delight in ruins as a boy, and the way nature reclaimed things, making them to my eyes more beautifu, wan and 'evocative', that fired in me a great interest in architecture. I recommend, nay INSTRUCT you to fore the local library to stock a copy of this book;http://www.shelterpub.com/_shelter/shelter_book.html

I picked it up for 15 quid about 5 yrs ago, and never since failed to be inspired by it. I read the Frank Lloyd Wright biography also, his ideas about the material befitting the location and his almost obsessive yearning for aesthetic non-compromise was thrilling, inspiring and made me kinda patriotic for Welsh nutcases :-)

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
Frank Lloyd Wright

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