Just an older gay guy having a late life crisis … travelling and looking at the world and enjoying serendipity and trying to understand myself a little more. Trying to find kindness through random acts
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Catalyst
2022 has been a strange year; my life pivoted in July when I hit an age I never imagined I could be; 70! Then I encountered a much younger man and became madly infatuated with him. He was beautiful, sensitive and so open emotionally. At 70 I never expected such an intense sexual relationship. Older…
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A day of wandering and Sunshine – Siena
A beautiful day in the exquisite city with it’s architectural marvels, back streets, fascinating history and good food. I tool a long wander just looking around. I’d been once before but this time I took my time exploring. While I was there it was the annual festival of the Drago contrada one of 17 “contrade”…
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Rothko in Florence
This was a wonderful exhibition focusing on the artist’s connection with Florence and the Renaissance fresco cycles. I’ve always felt an affinity with his work on a visceral and emotional level but I admit I have not explored his work deeply in a more intellectual way. This exhibition opened my eyes to how his work,…
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Seurat at the Courtauld
Seurat has always been a love of mine. Not because of his pointillism though his technique is wonderful but for his landscapes and his compositions of people in seeming isolation amidst crowds and the prism through which he views the disjointed qualities of modernity: La Grande Jatte, Bathers at Asnieres, Parade and many others. His…
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Seurat at the Courtauld
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Tracey Emin: Tate Modern
Escape to myself 