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Wish You Were Here

The annual Foundation Art Course exhibition at Abingdon College is called ‘Wish You Were Here’ and is on until the end of the week: 10-7 Tuesday to Thursday, 10-4 on Friday. It is well worth going to see …
Kay with fridge magnets
Paul Kilsby, the course tutor, sits in on one of the student’s exhibits. This piece shows pictures and artifacts gathered over four days in Paris tracing the route taken by a character called Nadja in a book of the same name by Andre Breton.
String Unravelling Hats
This exhibit shows dangling hats made from string and the unused string is shown on the floor still unravelling.
Wigs and Profiles
Wigs on the dark profiles make a striking image.
Do you find Humanity in this shape
Do you find Humanity in this mermaid like artifact?
False Teeth eating nose
Just one still from an animation of some nasty false teeth that ate somebodies nose.
Memories grow dim as we grow older
Memories growing dimmer and unclear as time goes by. There are a few exhibits about memory and the mind.

Stung, but all is not lost

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This could be the last picture from my old camera – showing stinging nettles by the River Ock. I think I lost the camera in the Albert Park today.

So the pictures I took today and my camera are lost. 🙁

Nethertheless you can still see a much fuller story of the pictures I tried to take on another Abingdon Blog: My Ecobuild .

Last Monday there was just bare earth where a bungalow had been demolished on Norman Avenue. A week later a whole new house has been built.

House Blessing
It was all made possible with German house building technique

The house was then given a traditional German House Blessing – which includes a toast by the architect. Thanks to Brigid at My Ecobuild for the picture.

I only wish I could find my own camera.

Singing in The Rain

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The Abingdon College Market Place performance was hit by the rain.

Performing Arts students from Abingdon College sang songs from the musicals.

They will be performing ‘Stop the World I Want to Get Off’ at their graduation show

where hopefully rain will be less of a factor.

Old Gaol – May Progress

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Old Gaol minus Out House
Demolition work continues on the Old Gaol – clearing all the out houses and bringing the building back to its core.
View to County Hall
New views appear as walls and buildings are cleared away. This view is from Nag’s Head Island to the County Hall. The view will be hidden again when new residential buildings are put in place of the old.

The view to the Old Gaol from the river is also being cleared of some vegetation.
Old Gaol Model
Eventually it will look something like the architectural model.