Sunday walk

The Climate Change march through town

 past Trafalgar Square

 turning down Whitehall

 past Horse Guards

towards the Parliament buildings

 with a little monumental sightseeing along the way

 and, retreating from the blare of the rally, some architectural details in the back streets

 not to mention these crazy trees

 and other plant life

 on the way to Tate Britain.

The big central space looked bare - but it's a listening place, not a looking place, with an installation of speakers playing Susan Philipsz's reconstruction of The Last Post, or rather, drawn-out notes from it, using war-damaged instruments.

 A film shows the instruments, which now rest in museums, being played and recorded. Some are so badly damaged that only the breath of the player is heard -

A thoughtful and affecting piece, I thought. That tuba, recovered from the German trenches in 1915, brings to mind my father's (German) cousin, who played the tuba though he had a finger missing, and also my grandfather, who fought in Belgium in that war.

The instruments are listed here; hear them till 3 April.