Country: Spain

  • Charcoal sketch of the stone triumphal gateway in Madrid under a vast dry sky - never been abroad

    Madrid

    A capital set down in the dead centre of nothing, on a high dry plateau far from any sea — Madrid is the one I have furnished out of other people’s light.

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  • Charcoal sketch of the unfinished spired basilica in Barcelona rising through scaffolding and cranes - never been abroad

    Barcelona

    Barcelona reached me as a cathedral that refuses to be finished — a city I keep building because the men who began it never managed to.

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