Thoughts (and objects) to pack in my Barcelona suitcase this year
Tomorrow, early, I head off to Barcelona, my fifth trip to the Catalonian capital, my favourite city, London-excepted.
I first celebrated this city in words when I made my first ever entry on this blog here in 2005. Then again, I wrote about an incident in the Picasso Museum here. As the city has always been such a huge source of inspiration to me, I'm excited to visit again, to see what it will uncover within me this time. Though it's true, the Picasso book that I wrote of in the latter blog post has not yet materialised, I know there is still something there, waiting to be uncovered. I've been toying with the idea of studying art history for some time, indeed I've recently been looking into the idea of an MA in the philosophy of art, though given my current commitments, I'm dreaming a couple of years into the future I feel... All the same, I know that art will play a large role in my future life. I hope to make art and to write about it and have made a small start this year by taking art classes with the wonderful artist Stephanie Wilkinson. My current novel, in the final stages of development, also has an art -history sub-plot involving Modigliani's last mistress Jeanne Hebuterne. So, given all this, what thoughts (and objects) am I packing in my suitcase this year?
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