This is the little one from the studio on Friday. I was thinking about all the domestic themes and images I see all over the art world lately( chairs, birds that fly but also nest, house-shapes etc) and I am thinking its like we are envisioning a 'new way of being domestic'- We are still experimenting with how we relate to our homes , our kitchens, our living spaces- technology is changing so fast but alot of our basic human needs are the same- (do our needs change?) I can't remember where I read that ' new technology requires new customs, therefore new shapes and forms'- That really rang all the bells for me-( I wish I could remember where I read it)- Anyway, this is what J. is doing here- daydreaming what 'home' means to her-

Otherwise,I am supposed to be working like a busy bee, and I am just hanging out, looking at Flickr things, just siting and looking and sometimes walking and looking. Thinking, jotting in my journal, waiting for an aha! moment...(hi,hi moments come so much easier...)

Ok. I do have a good excuse for all this, I am doing research, I am planning the rest of the large acrylics that I need to have for autumn... Yes oh yes.... Look at that green plate I bought on Saturday( thrifting)( I bought a blue one too) I just totally love blue and yellow-green- My Flickr is full of these colours- It's called obsession-

And this is my paw sticking out in a spot of sunshine- we are having a lovely day today- coolish- (oh yes lets not get tooo summery afterall),the sea is wavy and green- but its sunny, and Lucy is at summer camp today(she will be going a couple days a week) so I could walk- take pictures- and do research... Things are happening, more shows have been arranged and I don't even know if I will be able to take any time off this summer- and what do I do?

I look up and take photos... You would think that this was taken in some scorching hot country...

What am I researching you might ask? Well, pattern, colour, shape, but most of all simplicity...

So take a look at Abigail MacLellan who has some of that longed for simplicity and an exquisite sense of colour and shape...

What have you done with your Monday?