Hidden down the cobbled streets of the New Town of Edinburgh is the former Meeting House of the Glasites, a Scottish religious sect of followers of John Glas (1695-1773), who was removed from the Church of Scotland ministry in 1730 for his beliefs. The first Glasite church was founded in Dundee and the Edinburgh church […]
Remember those wobbly toys which you had as a child which, no matter how hard you pushed them, always bounced back upright (apparently they were called “wibble wobbles”)? Russian sculptor Gregory Orekhov’s daughter Agatha had such a toy when she was young and Orekhov has recreated a larger sculptural version named after her. Orekhov has […]
Outside is a sandy beach on which, when the tide is out, children will create patterns in the sand and build sandcastles and other structures, until washed away by the sea. Inside, a rake rotates continually across a circular bed of sand creating lines and then smoothing them out, over and over again, a smaller […]
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