The school is about to begin…time to go back to my studio again. I had a whole and full summer with plenty of emotions(not all positive…) but that’s part of the bargain. We know there’s a path but are we on the good one? When we feel whole i guess it means something is working for us. I could say that my inner voice tells me to withdraw, to settle a little, to look inside myself and start working again on my self esteem. What about you? In a scale one to one hundred where do you place your self esteem? When i m working and starting new projects i feel always very enthusiastic then i doubt…am i repeating myself? What do i want to say? How can i be more creative? bla bla… on and on which is very confusing for those around me who look at my art and really appreciate it. But then again are they just being nice? So the solution always comes from within because somewhere in the road i got lost again and i …
A dream come true
I had this huge dream for years to go to the lost city of the Incas: Macchu Picchu. I yearn for it, some go to Fatima others to Lourdes for me Peru had something that i had to do…sensing that this incredible and magical place possess something unique. And it sure does! I have been in beautiful places around the world but Machu Picchu is a journey in itself. My husband by coincidence(if such exists…) had the same dream so there we went on our own personal pilgrimage. We wake up at 4am took the bus to be among the first to enter and contemplate the sunrise. Wow! it was worth every penny of it! we were that lucky to be there the 7th of july exactly 100 years after the american Hiram Bigham discovered this sanctuary in the middle of the clouds. I was speechless and still feel the incredible energy of the place. We have experienced something unique and the results are yet to be seen… If you have the chance go to Machu Picchu it will be …
Are you open?
Just finished two extraordinaries books “The Help” Kathryn Stockett and “Shanghai girls” Lisa See. Both about discrimination and injustice and how women fight back, never giving up their dreams and their ability to give no matter what. We are transported back in the sixties, Mississipi, how black women cooked, cleaned and raised little white children and have their own private toilets because of the diseases they might carry for example or others discriminations each one worse than the others. “Shanghai girls” is the beautiful story of two sisters back in the sixties too, who after their father lost his fortune were sold and went living in chinatown Los Angeles and couldn’t get out of it no matter what. I am fortunate to have been raised by a french mother and a portuguese father both open to the world. I remember the parties in our house where my father was at the time responsible for black and arab countries. I remember mom wearing the traditional boubou offered to her by the Senegal’s ambassador. I knew from childhood that we are equals …
CRAFT AND DESIGN Christmas 2010
Perfect day no clouds spring temperature lovely time spent in jardim da Estrela along with my husband, mother and special friend Alex. Last week was another story with cold and rainy weather but still the public showed up, christmas is at the door! I must say that i am running out of spoons which is cool because i loved them and am happy that people find the idea amusing and fashionable. I was blessed last saturday with the meeting of an old (we have known each other since kindergarden) and dear friend that i haven’t seen for quite a while, can’t remember why life as set us apart, probably just that… Life! Last time she was single and now she is married with two beautiful sons, i met only the youngest who looks so much like her. That’s the kind of gift I receive with profound gratitude, can’t wait to be with her again. We are born on the 4th of august in Lisbon in 1969 same hospital! How cool is that? We used to have the same bad temper…i …
