Current Affairs

Still attached to the old and decaying...
It's been a few years now that I enjoy the presence of those small religious statues. The now reside beside each other, pensively sharing the motherly wisdom, reminiscing on the strange times when one had her neck broken off, another colour peeled off her face...

The delightful virgins, filled with compassion:
Kwannon and Mary.
















The lamp on the other hand, also an older aquisition has been adorned with new shade (Ikea!)
Here too, East meets West (will never understand what came out of it.)

Norka

Lady Norka died, hit by a car, last night.
Kind neighbours helped to identify, gave a clean white towel, other bystanders gave words of support.
She was the only one I knew who slept like this. Rest in peace, baby.

Interior decorating and design

I love every bit about this arragement... Impractical but beautiful.

Sir William Edmond Logan

Finally, small proofs remaining from the project of reproducing all of identified (known) watercolours by Sir Willie* have been taken care.
Collection of small watercolours meet collection of small gilded frames:

* Sir William is the "father of our geology", was an explorer geologist, and in his younger days as a Victorian traveller, a skilled watercolourist.
The subject of his art were mostly mountains - predictable destination for a geologist of his time, or Scotland - his birthplace.

This is the photograph of Sir "Willie" Notman,
obviously it served as a template for the formal portrait
as the Director of the Geological Survey of Canada.

The photographi is now in the ownership of the McCord Museum in Montreal, with other works by Notman's studio.



There is few more, slightly larger proofs, but this group is distinctly naturally sepia toned.
More about Sir W.E.Logan and about Notman: here

Children's Festival

My work looked great, the weather was extremely cold.