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jealous for the English who are island people that so tied to its water—from whom also an island people that so demarcated from them water, restricted by by the capital of their greedy silly government.

Australia without its aboriginal people is—just an orphaned landscape.

‘Whites came with a notion of primitiveness and a sense of their superiority.’

‘Valey fever is real.’ me couldn’t imagine of living six months without sunlight!

use a single painting in a room as another window

‘a woman caught in adultery … should be stoned to death.’ John 8:7, ‘according to the law of Moses’…

To cast the first stone

back to basics doesn’t mean to ‘back to square one’.

Have you ever attended the World Worm Charming Championships? I genuinely thought it was a joke lollol—was it, though?

‘… it will be nature and the natural world in which succour and solace will once again be found by future generations.’
I hope.

‘fishing is rarely about catching fish; instead I was learning to breathe and to think, to master the art of patience and to broaden my horizon.’

‘… once you leave the city it is very difficult to return; one only moves to London when either young or wealthy.’

clear sources or themed material uses, proportion and harmony within surrounding landscape, that’s the key.

2raiser + thread = 60 ~ 65 cm, 2(15) + 30 = 60; 15 + 30 = 45, r + t = 40 ~ 45 cm

variation matters

a poet? the storytelling is awful—all the same for every character.

the columns and the rib vaults are mimicking the trees walk outside the building. shaped the interior with stone and the exterior with nature’s elements.

unfaithfulness of a girl, unnatural—different cultures, degrade or … just fantasy?

‘We were in the middle of winter, the wind blew strong from the northeast…’

jealousy can’t fade with time—it’s human nature

‘A person who has not done one half his day’s work, by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.’ I like that. like—tell the story leisurely, and, finish it in the same way.

he were it before baptised—racism here is very tied to religion

adorable buildings, adorable ruins—people protects what they love

we all love windows—balance between private and communal

‘… to imagine is to imagine the already imagined; to dream is to dream the already dreamed’.

in the woods I learnt

be imaginative but not using ‘the imagination of the detached dreamer’.

‘The knowing of the third kind’. I like that—a very contextual name for a contextual way of thinking. ‘Unlike the first two (knowing “how” and knowing “that”)’.

the building couldn’t exist without the Bill of Quantity, as for the Quantity Surveyor—so to say. but, for an Architect, the building wouldn’t exist without a set of Drawings. in the end… architects are (but) one part of a much wider social system.

the three-stage elevation of Gothic Order: ARCADE of pointed arches, a stark—plain WALL, and CLERESTORY windows.

‘Negotiating’ is different from an uncritical and inevitable of ‘combining’.

‘Just because it has curves doesn’t mean it’s
soft’.
that—that is!

‘you’re not drawing buildings, you’re drawing ideas’.