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Cats - a poem from Naples & a doodle by me

Hello Lovelies,

A traditional poem/saying from Naples, translated into French and English (I have the original Italian somewhere, too):

Pense et travaille, regarde et écoute
Plus on vit et plus on en apprend ;
Moi, la prochiane fois que je naîtrais,
Je serais un chat de concierge !

Think and work, look around and listen
the longer we live, the more we learn
As for me, next time I am born,
I wanna be reincarnated into a janitor's cat!

Enjoy!

MS.

New Visual Obsession: Falling Raindrops

Hello Lovelies,

image source: tumblr

As you may know, I'm a highly visual person. My mind/eye connection work in a peculiar way - maybe it's the same for other visually-trained creatives, or maybe it's just me, but I tend to see things in recurring patterns, that i call my (visual) obsessions. An obsession is a visual pattern that currently interests me and that I tend to see everywhere I look at a given moment. After the while, the novelty of it wears off, and I move on to the next obsession. Some obsessions remain with me at all times, they're my core obsessions.

Anyway, I've been subscribing to a lot of tumblr blogs lately, perusing litterally thousands of images, and connecting the dots between seemingly unrelated images - my fave kind of intellectual sport. A pattern that has stood out was the one showing raindrops fallung,n be it in animated gifs or otherwise.

Here are a few favorites:

Literature-inspired graphic poster by Evan Robertson 

Above: both silk Ikat weavings by Polly Barton

 

 

Above: both ceramic bowls by Lucie Rie.

 I've also been researching a lot of David Lynch's paraphernalia, more on that in my next post. Here's just a preview, from Lynch's "Nudes & Smoke" photographuic series:

 

Other obsessions currently include: b&w home decor, with a heavy accent on the black side of things, artists at work/play in their atelier, as inspired by the photographs of David Seidner, with close-ups of tubed of pain, brushes, back of canvases etc...Also: anything Cy Twombly, artwork - usually the typographic kind - that is decoupaged then reconstructed, lots of scenes involving tea-related objects as usual, and for a quirky side of things, funny elephants' images that I collect for my nephews!

Dreams - Part II

 Hello Lovelies, 

 

 

Photo by Armand Khoury found on Unsplash

 

I started this blog with a poem, a long time ago... in September 2015.

Here's another one:

Dreams

By Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

 

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

 

 source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150995/dreams-5d767850da976

Enjoy!

-Teabutterfly

Another Visual Obsession: Artists At Work

Hello Lovelies!

Anonymous artist's studio

"Artists At Work" is the title of a book of photographies by David Seidner that Ireally love. It's also the theme of a visual obsession I had lately: collecting pictures of artists and their studios/workshops, close-ups of canvases and brushes, etc... Maybe the fact that I have been a bit creatively stuck can explain my current fascination with the theme.


Anyway, here are a few faves on the subject:

 Recent view of Lisa Congdon's studio

 

  Playing with paint at Sandra Juto's house 

 Last page from a manuscript by William Styron, or the writer at work, via tumblr

A Scandinavian studio, via tumblr

 Playful abstract art on the walls of a Brazilian home

And don't even get me strated on the subject of home offices! Here's just one, a great one from Paris:

Enjoy!

Alix of TeaButterfly (aka "Beautymist").

 

 

 

Dreams

let me start with a poem. This one is by Langston Hugues:

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore -
And then run?
Does ir stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over -
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does ir explode?