I made a recording of my quiet spring days in London and time alone I spent on walking around the city during April weeks. I love long solitary walks.
I visited cafes, Foyles Bookshop, the National Gallery, St James’ Park. I particularly enjoyed visiting the exhibition: A View of Mexico by the 19th century Mexican landscape painter José María Velasco at the National Gallery. Velasco had a huge array of interests including geology, the archaeology of Mexico, local flora and the advances in the industrialisation and rapid modernisation of his home country. All these interests can be seen in the detailed paintings dedicated to the beauty and richness of Mexico.
I hope you will enjoy this digital diary.
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature – if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’ to nature – consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.”
– The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz