The history bit.. Baalbek was originally an important pilgrimage site in the ancient world for the worship of Phoenician sky-god Baal and the Queen of Heaven, Astarte. Under the Roman empire huge building projects gave life to the temple of Bacchus, Jupiter, Venus and...
Look up ‘travail’ and you find the phrase, ‘creation may travail in pain but it cannot escape its destiny,’ which strikes a cord of what this painting-travelling combination of activities is for me. I arrived in Marrakech with high hopes and...
