Liam Sprod
@liamsprod.bsky.social
'Life exists only on Earth, and not for long.'
Based in Sweden.
He/him/Dr.
Based in Sweden.
He/him/Dr.
The Swedish edition of her book New Forest is really beautiful... Maybe I should just read that...
October 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Swedish edition of her book New Forest is really beautiful... Maybe I should just read that...
Another picture from some time ago. This was in London, and if feels like it should be autumn, but may have been deep into winter, the seasons feel different now. Time is in motion, the earth has moved and I have moved.
October 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Another picture from some time ago. This was in London, and if feels like it should be autumn, but may have been deep into winter, the seasons feel different now. Time is in motion, the earth has moved and I have moved.
Grey rags hanging from some sort of stone sifter found on a construction site on a rainy day in the outer suburbs of Stockholm many years ago...
September 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Grey rags hanging from some sort of stone sifter found on a construction site on a rainy day in the outer suburbs of Stockholm many years ago...
An image from a past autumn, many years ago, when I lived on the very outskirts of London, far to the east, beyond the Thames Barrier, beside this marshland that was once, maybe still is or will be again, the floodplain of the river.
September 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
An image from a past autumn, many years ago, when I lived on the very outskirts of London, far to the east, beyond the Thames Barrier, beside this marshland that was once, maybe still is or will be again, the floodplain of the river.
Dreaming of this weather...
August 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Dreaming of this weather...
For those who looked deeper saw the scene of their existence as a rubbish heap of partial inauthentic actions...
August 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
For those who looked deeper saw the scene of their existence as a rubbish heap of partial inauthentic actions...
299 pages, 25 black and white photographs.
August 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
299 pages, 25 black and white photographs.
If the heat is getting to people, I have copies of my book available... A novel set in the deep winter, full of thoughts on the ice age, the trash heap of the world, the emptiness of God, the possibility of the universal solvent, and the deep textures of the forest and the stones beneath it...
August 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
If the heat is getting to people, I have copies of my book available... A novel set in the deep winter, full of thoughts on the ice age, the trash heap of the world, the emptiness of God, the possibility of the universal solvent, and the deep textures of the forest and the stones beneath it...
I was fascinated by this formation, especially because on such a moody day, with grey skies and a slight swell, it reminded me of August Strindberg's almost-abstract seascapes...
August 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I was fascinated by this formation, especially because on such a moody day, with grey skies and a slight swell, it reminded me of August Strindberg's almost-abstract seascapes...
Prästens Badkar [The Priest's Bathtub]. A 500-million-year-old sand volcano. Vik, Baltic coast.
July 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Prästens Badkar [The Priest's Bathtub]. A 500-million-year-old sand volcano. Vik, Baltic coast.
I decided to do a test print of a strange manuscript I have been working on for a long time. It is a novel that is very inspired by the landscape here in Småland, but at the same time it is also a meditation on collapse, decay and release. If anyone would like a copy please get in touch. Blurb below
May 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I decided to do a test print of a strange manuscript I have been working on for a long time. It is a novel that is very inspired by the landscape here in Småland, but at the same time it is also a meditation on collapse, decay and release. If anyone would like a copy please get in touch. Blurb below
Thinking of this quote in relation to the Smithson and Ballard, I sought out this picture I took of a statue of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. I wanted to see the multiple faces, here all visible at once, but what struck me were the arms, which recall both my picture and the section from Ballard.
May 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Thinking of this quote in relation to the Smithson and Ballard, I sought out this picture I took of a statue of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. I wanted to see the multiple faces, here all visible at once, but what struck me were the arms, which recall both my picture and the section from Ballard.
This quote was illustrated by a photograph taken in the disused quarries of Vånevik, a multiple exposure of my arm moving against the regular grid drilled into the stone to cut it. The time of the motion annihilated by both the open shutter and the crystalline regularity of empty space.
May 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This quote was illustrated by a photograph taken in the disused quarries of Vånevik, a multiple exposure of my arm moving against the regular grid drilled into the stone to cut it. The time of the motion annihilated by both the open shutter and the crystalline regularity of empty space.
The fresco itself:
The iconography appears to derive from the Revelationes of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (11th century), close to the Augustinian-Thomist conception of the creation of the world.
The iconography appears to derive from the Revelationes of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (11th century), close to the Augustinian-Thomist conception of the creation of the world.
April 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The fresco itself:
The iconography appears to derive from the Revelationes of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (11th century), close to the Augustinian-Thomist conception of the creation of the world.
The iconography appears to derive from the Revelationes of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (11th century), close to the Augustinian-Thomist conception of the creation of the world.
Detail from the sinopia (under drawing) of the fresco Cosmography Theological by Piero di Puccio for the Camposanto Monumentale in Pisa. Such beautiful textures...
April 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Detail from the sinopia (under drawing) of the fresco Cosmography Theological by Piero di Puccio for the Camposanto Monumentale in Pisa. Such beautiful textures...
The fresco itself:
The iconography appears to derive from the Revelationes of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (11th century), close to the Augustinian-Thomist conception of the creation of the world.
The iconography appears to derive from the Revelationes of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (11th century), close to the Augustinian-Thomist conception of the creation of the world.
April 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The fresco itself:
The iconography appears to derive from the Revelationes of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (11th century), close to the Augustinian-Thomist conception of the creation of the world.
The iconography appears to derive from the Revelationes of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (11th century), close to the Augustinian-Thomist conception of the creation of the world.
'the spring, [...] that which already covered the meadows of Fiesole with lilies and anemones, and gave Florence a dazzling golden background like those in Fra Angelico’s pictures.' This fresco of the Annunciation is not so golden, but it does have a field of flowers.
April 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
'the spring, [...] that which already covered the meadows of Fiesole with lilies and anemones, and gave Florence a dazzling golden background like those in Fra Angelico’s pictures.' This fresco of the Annunciation is not so golden, but it does have a field of flowers.
And sorting is certainly the time to visit Florence... Flowers everywhere. And here is Botticelli's 'Primavera' as seen in the Uffizi, with Flora, the goddess of spring. Botticelli is, of course, the painter that is tied up in Swann's love for Odette...
April 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
And sorting is certainly the time to visit Florence... Flowers everywhere. And here is Botticelli's 'Primavera' as seen in the Uffizi, with Flora, the goddess of spring. Botticelli is, of course, the painter that is tied up in Swann's love for Odette...
Notes on Proust 7 (a picture and a quote). 'And when I thought of Florence it was of a town miraculously scented and flower-like, since it was called the City of the Lilies, and its cathedral, Our Lady of the Flowers.'
April 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Notes on Proust 7 (a picture and a quote). 'And when I thought of Florence it was of a town miraculously scented and flower-like, since it was called the City of the Lilies, and its cathedral, Our Lady of the Flowers.'
The vertiginous geometries of Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore. I didn't quite go the full Stendahl, but we haven't been inside yet... tomorrow...
April 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The vertiginous geometries of Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore. I didn't quite go the full Stendahl, but we haven't been inside yet... tomorrow...
The beautiful work of Fra Angelico in the Basilica San Marco in Florence.
April 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The beautiful work of Fra Angelico in the Basilica San Marco in Florence.
Or patterns in fireplace bricks...
April 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Or patterns in fireplace bricks...
