Visiting the Sicily: Culture and Conquest exhibition at the British Museum last Friday had me searching for my watercolour sketchbook from the trip to Western Sicily in 2002. I hadn't met Ian then so he hadn't seen them . They're a bit variable in quality but they summoned up a host of memories ( some like twisting my ankle in Palermo botanic garden and severe conjunctivitis best forgotten! )
Aren't holiday sketches so much richer than holiday photos! When I look at the ones I did in the Peleponese, it all comes back to me, everything tied up with stopping to do a little drawing - the stopping allows the paying of attention and that puts so much into the memory.
ReplyDeleteHoping Sicily is on my travel horizon; the BM exhibition is definitely on my list.