Tuesday, July 29, 2008

How it is, raining...



... a lot in Auckland.

My window, perpetually, looks like this.


Am (re)reading these wonderful books ...




Keeping happy with these lovely bits ...

I found the charming Dancing Girl Press. It is so wonderful, focused on independently publishing chapbooks by emerging female writers - this girl, Kristy Bowen, certainly keeps herself busy! Not only handling this project, she edits an online journal, Wicked Alice and makes her own paper arts and beautiful jewellery, and collects vintage objects and other delightful items - making her etsy shop a storehouse of enviable, delicious treats. (Kristy keeps a lovely blog here too).

Spelling ( ) Bound (Ellectrique Press 2008) is a poetic collaboration between Cara Benson, Kai Fierle-Hedrick, and Kathrin Schaeppi and looks like a wonderful project - I certainly hope to get a copy.

The projects exhibited in the New Media section in the latest issue of How2 equally much - I thought that Rosheen Brennan's Motion was particularly beautiful.

Reading a manuscript too. Not mine. An energetic surge, sustained. Practically inhaled it.


Making things: some new packettes for chapbooks -



Large handmade envelopes, hand stitched together to create a visible seam and using the same illustration as the last packette experiment.

I have been working on a few different collages/visual poems (that genre)...

Here's one I have completed (though have not titled yet).



- E xx

Monday, July 21, 2008

Snap Happy in Europe

Here are a few pictures of some of the wonderful places I visited on my holiday... (Too many to post!) I flew to Rome and then moved north to Milan, stopping in Florence, Monselice and Padua, and then travelled up and across to Marseille, spending some time in Aix-en-Provence, and then much further north to Brussels and Paris, crossing La Manche to London, which was my final destination.



The Pantheon


Looking down across the Roman Forum, Colosseum in the distance




Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli


Pompei



Florence




Scrovengi Chapel, Padua



Monselice (Venetian countryside)



Mont Sainte-Victoire, Aix-en-Provence


Creme-brulee!


Marseille


Brussels


The Seine


La Rive Gauche


Centre Pompidou


Eiffel Tower - looking very twinkly...


View from the Eiffel Tower

More writing and art posts soon!
Emma X