is this firenze?

Well, no. This is the view from the bridge in Girona, a short one hour and a half pleasant train ride from Barcelona.
Every time i go there i like it more, it's full of among others, interesting photo opportunities. i'll let you with some of the photos i took last week.

Today i needed to shift focus -pun intended- and do something else away from studio work, which has been pretty intense lately.
There's a lot of p-shopping- don't know where i read you can't use the word as adjective, sue, sue, ue, because it is proprietary. Weren't it ironically sad it would be hysterically funny given the orphan works bill.
The colors are intentionally off as a result of applying a cross processing action.

Beautiful belle epoque iron grill.

an alley in the jewish ghetto, one of the best restored in Europe.

an old fashioned menswear shop

colorful wall with a blurry effect to soften it a bit

neki desu

parting thoughts-TIF

i did the blogs yesterday and found some very interesting thoughts on this month's topic. Almost everyone disliked being categorized and labelled. It was also a general perception that labelling or categorizing was limiting and that people are polyhedric.
However, Fiona of Love Fibre made a distinction between naming and labelling that, as i see it, clarified concepts. She put it down beautifully. And that got me thinking again.

So for me, i really do not care if i'm labelled or classified. Can't complain being in the company of Anni Albers, Peter Collingwood, Alice Schlein, Bonnie Inoyue, Mary Atwater, Arai Junichi..... :)

And insisting on the topic of being a weaver :) the photo is the scarf that came out of the woven sample that was used for May's TIF.It is my favorite scarf, a double weave in colorful cotton warp and silk weft to brighten up winter blues.

neki desu

the good news is that i think i'm 20

The bad news is that i ain't. As a result i don't know how to gauge my energy and end up overextending myself.But why? i could do all of this and then some more a while ago without exhausting myself.

Take last week i was all over the place, literally and figuratively.
Went to Girona to visit my friend and caught the flower festival wrapping up, yet was able to see some of the displays and take some photos.
Then it was stripping some paint off the doors on the hallway. Hallway and doors will be painted this coming week, if we can decide on the color, that is.
A lot of studio work, finishing up May's TIF. testing paints and sketching some ideas for a new series (hurray,hurray), threading loom 2 and finishing some ATC's. And i'm already exhausted just by listing the activities.

Back to may's TIF.
These are close ups of my different textile and life interests.

Or textile practices.

Or techniques.

But notice that the central element is a double weave woven sample.
Don't know if i was successful in conveying what i wrote about in my preliminary thoughts.
Perhaps i forgot to mention that although i know that i am a weaver i'm in constant doubt about my textile work. This piece for example i'm still debating whether to stop here and leave it as is or give voice to the baroque in me and keep on adding stitching and some beads to the background.

BTW can you find the representation of all the categories i listed? After all this activity let's play and have some fun :)

neki desu