Galleria di benbrainard8
'Turn me around tonight, Up through a spiral staircase, To the higher ground'
indeed !
Goth/Gothic shelf-small but concise collection, Oct. 2021
Kunjudo Japanese Senkou, purchased near Arashiyama (嵐山, Storm Mountain) , Northwest of Kyōto (京都)
Japanese coffee cup collection
Yay for Dr. Who, Harry Potter, & Legos!
Tea at Fortnum & Mason, London, June 2019
The Versailles, June 30th, 2019
The Versailles, June 30th, 2019
one of 20 Jun Kaneko exhibit pieces, at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden ,viewed in Feb 2018
one of 20 Jun Kaneko exhibit pieces, at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden ,viewed in Feb 2018
AZ, Feb. 2018
Sagano Bamboo Grove, YR 2008
Tenryu-Ji, Arashiyama, Kyoto, April 2016
Benesse House Museum, Naoshima Island, Japan
Time/Timeless/No Time (2004) Walter De Maria, Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima Is., Japan. Black & green granite sphere is 2.2 meters in diameter, weighing 17 tons
Tsuboniwa
Sky Garden, London, June 27th, 2019
for the love of coffee, near Green Lake, Seattle, WA, Feb. 2018
Noguchi, Isamu (LAST, FIRST), exhibit in Year 2005, Seattle, WA. There you could see pieces, including his Akari lamps. Isamu Noguchi was a Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose…
from the Self and Others exhibition book cover
Go on a bike tour of The Versailles, you'll love it, and will never ever forget it! Yr 2019
Enjoying coffee in Japan, with Otousan ,Yr 2011
Enjoy osenko, Kōdō (香道 (Way of Incense))
Ōkōchi Sansō is the former home and garden of the Japanese jidaigeki actor Denjirō Ōkōchi in Arashiyama, Kyoto, beautiful viewpoints, walks, & the enjoyment of tea. Yr 2016.
Viewpoint near the Kiyomizudera (清水寺, literally "Pure Water Temple"); is a Buddhist temple and is located on Mt. Otowa, part of the eastern hills on the outskirts of Kyoto.
I could walk at Oxford...all week long...June 2019. War memorial garden near Christ Church, Oxford University
La Jolla, CA, either Yr 2011 or Yr 2014...
New York City!
This highly amused me...Oxford, England, June 2019. Top line reads: "12th Century Turf Tavern" & the bottom line reads, "An Education in Intoxication"
Tower of London, June 2019
AZ, near Sedona, Feb. 2018. Enjoy it in Feb.-early Mar., as there are fewer people.
Harrison Hot Spring, B.C., Canada, Nov. 2019, it was.... brisk.
Very near the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, 2008
Oharaimachi and Okage Yokocho , near Ise-Jingu, Mie-Ken, Japan , Yr 2016
Tobe (砥部町, Tobe-chō) is a town located in Iyo District, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, Yr 2008, a wonderful road trip by car
example of karesansui, Ōkōchi Sansō Villa (大河内山荘) in Japan, Yr 2016
Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Japan, Yr 2016. "A beautiful place where Japanese zen meets impressionism."
Lower antelope canyon, AZ, February 2018. You may go by escort primarily. Never go in summer, it is too hot, and there are too many people waiting to go down, up to 2-3 hr. wait-times.
Sometimes, I can't explain, Uji-City, Japan, year 2011
Naoshima Island, Feb 2011
my very small tsuboniwa
Kamigamo Shrine (上賀茂神社, Kamigamo Jinja) is a Shinto sanctuary on the banks of the Kamo River in north Kyoto, first founded in 678
Naoshima Island, Japan, Feb 2011' note the Sugimoto, Hiroshi on the wall.
The Versailles, June 30th, 2019
Oxford, June 26th, 2019
Lower antelope canyon, Arizona, Feb 2018. The feeling of an earth that can swallow you whole...
Kennin-ji (建仁寺), historic Zen Buddhist temple in Higashiyama, Kyoto, Japan, near Gion, at the end of Hanami Lane. Yr. 2008. It was a beautiful rainy a.m.
Kochoran Ryoukan Hotel, Toba (near Ise), Mie-Ken, Japan, Yr 2016
The Musée d'Orsay_07/02/2019
old Oxford city wall, near Christ Church College and in the Christ Church Meadow, June 2019
The National Museum of Art, Osaka in Osaka, Oct 2008, to view an exhibition of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, others at exhibit called "Self and Other" which ran at this museum 09/30/2008-11/24/2008
enjoy coffee and reading. for a weekend--pick a cup, grind the coffee, boil some water, make drip coffee, find a cozy place to sit. read and sip your coffee---slowly.
with Sean, The Art Institute, Chicago, IL, Sept. 2018
my small reading, work, writing, and study den
Higashiyama, Kyōto, Kennin-ji, by myself... early a.m. Oct. 2008
Palais Garnier, 06/29/2019
Ashikaga Gakko, Ashikaga-Shi, Japan Yr 1996
Le petit Trianon, The Temple of Love, Versailles, France, Sunday, June 30th 2019
Ryokan Kochoran Hotel, Toba, Mie-Ken, April,2016
Having a coffee... Park Museum Hotel, Naoshima Island, Japan, Yr. 2011
Japan, having a coffee...
Tenryū Shiseizen-ji (天龍資聖禅寺),Saga-Tenryūji Susukinobabachō, Ukyō-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto-Ken, April 2016
Wakefield Tower, medieval vaulted ceiling, June 25th, 2019
Palais Garnier, Paris 06/29/2019
The Art Institute, Chicago, IL, Yr. 2018
Naoshima Island, Japan, Year 2011
Park, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Naoshima Island, Japan Yr. 2011
Naoshima Island, Japan, Yr 2011
Naoshima, Yr. 2011, had a small coffee
'Time/Timeless/No Time' (2004), by Walter De Maria, Chichu Art Mus., Naoshima Is. Walk into, 2-3 people are allowed at a time, no shoes, & no talking. Sphere is 1.8 m. in hgt. No artificial light…
Hotel Kowakuen Haruka, Ehime-ken, Oct 18-19th, 2008
Oxford-Shire, near Christ Church College, 06/26/2019
Palais Garnier, 06/29/2019
Dōtonbori, Ōsaka (大阪): running along the Dōtonbori canal from Dōtonboribashi Bridge to Nipponbashi Bridge in the Namba district. In Yr. 2008. It's the best place to get lost, I promise.
(immagine principale)