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DGM HQ.
Today is my Uncle Bill’s 92nd. birthday.
Today, Churchscapes in St. Paul’s London.
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I have no pix of the interior, because a sign at the entrance declares: This is a house of prayer. Please do not… So, I did not.
In a toilet downstairs, grafittied on the wall: Sod off! I took photos. This is a national visitor site. So why no photography?
Well, because this is a house of prayer. The architecture of this house of prayer is internationally renowned, and many people do visit it. But, St. Paul’s Cathedral is primarily a house of prayer; its status as an international visitor site is subordinate. That’s why no photography.
No argument will persuade the person who wrote these insights into their own processes, onto the walls of a toilet, that the devotional imperative of others might be respected above their own photographic impulses.
Eucharist at 12.30. This was a wonderful beginning to a performance, as at Newlyn.
The intention was to set up the Solar Voyager, right in the centre beneath the Rotunda: a perfect place for performance. But, in practice, this wouldn’t work: we’d set up for soundcheck, then move everything out of the way for the service, then move everything back & check it again. So, John & Trev have the rig on the perimeter of the circle. A wonderful performance space nevertheless, this an understatement.
Slow traffic out of London for the drive to DGM HQ. Trev & John have visited the office to do e-mail. Now e-flurrying of my own while dribbling.
22.43 Dribble dribble. E-flurrying coming towards an end.
"There are few things as convincing as death to remind us of the quality with which we live our life."
