Spanish wallet

In the period we painted in the guest studio at the Costa da Morte we kept our shared Euros in this wallet. I’m not sure where it’s from, but the plastic pattern seems to derive from the Moorish culture.

3 + 1 tompouce

The tompouces on a billboard have an architectural feel. The picture looks like a model for a new project to build socialist housing blocks.

Greek flag

I saw a distorted zebra crossing in the Greek flag. It is symbolic of the current crisis.

Zebra crossing

The Chairman Dances

In the newspaper I looked at a picture of an empty gym with rows of tables and chairs. It was as an illustration of the start of the school exams season. At that same moment I also listened to ‘Chairman Dances’ by John Adams. Suddenly everything fell together. The lines of all the legs, cross connections, the lines on the floor, and the tabletops that formed a tremendous sense of depth, along with the rhythmic music that expressed exactly what I saw. The title couldn’t be better! It was like a gift. I got it all for free.

Madonna exposes breast

Madonna exposes breast during a gig in Istanbul

Some gods and the European Championship

Throughout the town there are orange flags because of the European Championship. Two blocks away, in my own avenue, a resident has permanently placed the Indian elephant god Ganesh in his front yard. In combination with the flags it reminds me of the Tibetan villages in Nepal. Indeed, there was Buddha instead of Ganesh and the flags had more colors, but the flapping and whispering of the gods was the same.