The Problem With Teaching Photography ...
The problem ... sometimes your lovely clients decide they might enjoy working through your photo-phobia and take more than a few photographs of you.
But we had so much fun and I think Gabrielle captured that in her series.
And one of our lovely waiters at Douce, suffering from the same kind of phobia as I, was also captured, there in the centre.
Thank you to Gabrielle. I had to share. She's good.
Light and Shadow, Rivierenhof.
I climbed on my bike after dinner and headed off in search of light and shadow.
I found it.
Nicolas Maurice.com
Traveling back from London last week, I caught the Eurostar ... that train that travels under the English Channel. I wasn't quite sure how I felt about it.
But I was fortunate. My traveling companion, by chance, was a lovely French guy called Nicolas Maurice. And he was kind enough to chat with me, patiently answering my questions and putting up with me all the way back to his world. The time sped by and the 20 minutes down in the tunnel was barely noticed by me.
I was curious about his work, most specifically his Masters project. Over on his website he has written, 'This is a reflexion on memory, virtuality, materiality, relationality and the construction of identity. It is the building of a three dimensional map of the neighborhood of my childhood as I remember it, departing from my writing practice, placing memories in space and letting them shape its structure. It is also an experiment in using computer graphics’ techniques and 3D softwares as a raw material, entering a dialogue with its digital nature, constraints limitations and possibilities. '
But more than that, he explained complex ideas in a ways that opened them up. Somewhere along the way, it occurred to me that I would have enjoyed sharing my classes with him, back when I was studying comparative literature.
It ended up being a most delightful journey. You can view his work on his website. The short movies, his commercial work, and his photography.
Thank you, Nicolas Maurice.
A Glimpse ...
I am taking time to settle back into my Belgian world, to recover from the intensity that was London. And so much has changed here, and is continuing to change.
We're moving. The big house seems empty now that Jess, Sander and Miss 11 have moved out. The entire top floor of this 3-storey home is empty. The house is mostly quiet. I'm reading, listening to good music, napping (just today), cleaning, working out future plans.
A glimpse of England's wild flowers ... taken when Kim, Andy and Patches took me to a divine English pub located on the edge of a village green and next to a river.
London Was Superb For So Many Reasons ...
Up there in that list of 'superb' was being introduced to the music of Elbow.
Thank you, Teresa. Not just for being the kindest most generous hostess but for this music too.