"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method". Herman Melville

"I know nothing but miracles." Walt Whitman







terça-feira, 17 de janeiro de 2012

"Stone Matress", a short-story by Margaret Atwood

It´s in the Dec.19& 26 issue of "The New Yorker" and it´s excelent. Who said feminist literature was boring? Here.

segunda-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2012

Mia Brownell

Fruits painted in the detailed style of old dutch still-lives, but following the molecular structure of biomolecules. I like them. Oil on canvas.




domingo, 15 de janeiro de 2012

Concrete and pebbles table

I made this table with white concrete, pebbles and sand from the beach, an old road sign and the base of a stall.




I found those two terracota pieces on the beach. I suspect they may be old fishing nests wheights, but I´m not sure.



sábado, 14 de janeiro de 2012

Totem

Olinda Gil gave me this totem. She spent her chilhood in Moçambique, and you can see the african influence in the colors she uses.


quarta-feira, 11 de janeiro de 2012

SEGO Y OVBAL

I saw some photos of graffitis by this mexican artist and I instantly became a fan. See more here.




sexta-feira, 6 de janeiro de 2012

I finished painting the desk

Acrylic and spray on wood. This is for a school tv studio. With a desk like this, the viewers may look at it instead of paying atention to the program...




sexta-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2011

Painted desk








I´ve been painting this desk. It´s not finished yet. I´ll post the final photos soon.

sexta-feira, 23 de dezembro de 2011

Gregory Bateson was right



I became an ecologist after reading Gregory Bateson´s "Steps to an Ecology of Mind"

quarta-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2011

quarta-feira, 14 de dezembro de 2011

sexta-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2011

Suzanne Oldewarris

Suzanne lives most of the year in Portugal and travels to Holand in winter. Besides reading, cooking and partying, Suzanne makes this fine paintings and collages: