Icarus @ 59 # 206

Sienna is one of the most remarkable cities I have ever visited. It carries itself off very well. Later in the year this place, the Piazza  del Campo becomes the site of the Palio, but actually it is a fantastic place to sit and eat. Its a city that combines its history and present with aplomb and while the Piazza del Duomo is not the prettiest of Piazzas, the Cathedral is just amazing - especially the library, the ceiling is pictured here. I have been doing a lot of thinking around this idea, the long past and the present because I am working on a piece that carries a myth through it. And its difficult to avoid the inspiration the juxtaposed old and new brings, myth and modernism, its almost a Benjaminian idea though I am sure Adorno would have approved too - did you know that Theodor Adorno did little in the way of philosophy without consulting Felizizitas (his wife Gretel). This doesn't say a huge amount, I expect it was a common idea except that we have come  along way from putting those prominent names at the head of thinking on aesthetics and dialectics. but for now, something simpler. Me and Abbi love this tune - she dances to this in Okie and its the other Bob Dylan song I mentioned to yesterday, rock me like a wagon wheel - and if you watch the film you will see Gillian Welch and David Rawlings lurking (not that everyone will know who they are):