JAMES KELSO
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The Didcot Interpretation

26” x 20” (66 x 51cm) / Acrylic on gessoed panel /£3750
 
I often wonder why I’m drawn to railways. One explanation is they were the playgrounds of my youth, places of freedom, adventure, larking about. Am I still larking about? Probably. Maybe my interest stems from the fact that, if you wait long enough near a railway a train will probably come along. That got me thinking about probability. I remember once trying to read a book on the subject. It explained the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics. I was about a page and a half in when it struck me the topic was perhaps not for the Master of 27 Gorwell, Watlington, Oxon. I wish I’d stuck with it. The book had a noble cast of scientists: Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin ‘Magic Cat’ Schrödinger. The book came back to me when I titled this picture, which is based on a scene at Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire. Hence the pretentious title, ‘The Didcot Interpretation’. At Didcot there's no probabiiity. If you hang around  long enough, trains do come along.
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  • Home
  • About JK
  • Gallery 1
    • Dune
    • The Winter's Tale
    • The Raft
    • Vespers
    • Dupuytrens
    • Farewell to Stockevik
    • Gallery 2
    • Gran Via
    • Carriers
    • Isolation
    • La Malvinie
    • 16 Walpole
    • The Ghost Tanker
    • The Shipping Forecast
    • The Didcot Interpretation
    • Site
    • Lake Keitele
    • Tom Stoppard
    • The Maybe Man
    • Double Self Portrait With Knees
    • Post Ironic Iron Horse
    • Terminus
    • Cleared to Land
    • Matins
    • The Worm Forgives the Plough
    • Isolation
    • Red Spotty
    • Landed
  • Prints
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