Mono

In this hectic time of year I've been very lucky to join a printmaking class at work. Producing prints just for fun is hugely liberating; no deadlines or worrying about grades or commercial value, just mess and giggles! I truly loved making these monoprints, and the block prints which will follow once they're dry.

In other news I can now be found on Twitter; and Last.fm radio where I happily listen to music whilst I work.
Have a wonderful winter.

Thought

{Found eggshells photograph taken with a Polaroid 250 Land camera.}

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"Does knowing mean nothing to you, unless somebody else knows that you know it?"

{Persius, Satires, I, xxiii; via Michel De Montaigne, On Solitude.}

Reading On solitude I'm amazed how truly timeless Michel De Montaigne's words and ideas are; given that he was writing during the Renaissance, they are as fresh as today.
Plus the new penguin book covers are beautifully purple and tactile.

Time to turn the page

I am at my best when experimenting joyously, so I've been playing with simple sleeves. Fabric is such a wonderful medium for me because it bends to the form inside it, jersey especially. I can play with shapes, volume, and develop from there. The sketches shown are the very first iteration of 'what if...?'

I also reopened my Etsy shop last night. I'm back and feel stronger than ever! There will be huge changes in the next few weeks, one is that I have a new printer... the rest; time will tell.

Tallinn

Doors close and doors open. The air is feeling autumnal. I am being gentle on myself.



I love Tallinn; both its beauty and its age. Everything had changed so much since I was last there 14 years ago, it now has shiny, expensive, tourist areas! The shots I took are happysnaps, practicing using my Lubitel camera again. Now I can focus by guessing the distance between myself and the subject... the Lubitel's focusing screen is terrible!

Hands

A thousand years, you said,
as our hearts melted.
I look at the hand you held,
and the ache is hard to bear.
(Lady Heguri)

These hands are mountainous.