Oaks and stones...

Playlist

Robert Fripp - NYC WFC 4/12/10 (PM)

Fripp & Eno - Paris Olympia 28 May 1975

Bob Dylan - Tell tale Signs (Bootleg Series Vol 8)

Bob Dylan - Rare and Unreleased 1961-1991 (Bootleg Series Vols 1-3)

Various - One Track Each By Artists by Whom I Have "Everything"

A good day today...

Started out frosty...

Some of these pics are maybe just a wee bit too manipulated but you get the idea...

A call from sister Pam towards lunchtime - she was in great spirits and advised today she felt the best she's felt since this all began...

Brilliant news!

By way of a kind of a celebration, I popped along to FOPP and diminished my Xmas token further by the acquisition of a 3CD set by Bob Dylan - an artist I used to think was pish but now quite like...

The Exec Producer remains of the former persuasion methinks, judging by the reaction tonight to my insisting on listening to this in the kitchen as we cooked...

Later, an update from chum Lesley who visited Pam today with her daughter - the patient now has her own room on the ward and is looking forward to some better nights' sleep...

Pam is also having her laptop taken in so she can catch up on some much-missed TV favourites...

Re-watched the third in the series on German Art, which ended with the story of Josef Beuys' instigation of the planting of 7,000 oaks alongside 7,000 basalt stones in Kassel at the Documenta 7 in 1982 (I was there)...

It took five years for them all to be planted of course...

The last tree was planted next to the first (which was planted by Beuys himself) by the artist's son, at the start of Documenta 8, 18 months after Beuys died...

And nearly 20 years later, the trees are still growing...

"Beuys's project 7000 Oaks was begun in 1982 at Documenta 7, the large international art exhibition in Kassel, Germany.

His plan called for the planting of seven thousand trees, each paired with a columnar basalt stone approximately four feet high above ground, throughout the greater city of Kassel.

With major support from Dia Art Foundation, the project was carried forward under the auspices of the Free International University (FIU) and took five years to complete, the last tree having been planted at the opening of Documenta 8 in 1987.

Beuys intended the Kassel project to be the first stage in an ongoing scheme of tree planting to be extended throughout the world as part of a global mission to effect environmental and social change; locally, the action was a gesture towards urban renewal."

If I'm truthful, "CSI" was not quite so entertaining - but entertained nonetheless...

Wrote this up to the sounds of artists by whom I have all studio albums released to date...

Do you want to know who they are?

Maybe one day...

Mind you, I've probably listed them somewhere on here already...

Highlight of the Day : Pam in tip top form...