Out in the World

We took a walk to a few gardens in Prague that are usually closed to public. Today was a special day and some of them were open. I had walked past them many times, often wondered what it was like inside and I was finally surprised today that nothing special is hiding inside. Except for the one, the garden of Černin Palace (1, 3), up on Loretánské náměstí, it is a grand one, we felt French just being there. The second picture is a view of an orchard right in the heart of Prague, a monastery in the background, this place attacked me with its beauty already long time ago. The monastery has a hidden garden as well, the fourth picture, it is up on the hill and from this view it gives a feeling that it is on a sea shore, well, if you pretend you don't see the hill on the sky-line. Prague is nice. Little bit windy and touristy.

Secret photos

I took these pictures on a brief visit to a workroom of a puppet theater. There was so much to look at, the creativity was springing from everywhere I turned. Apart from that, it felt like: finally I got there where I wished I could at least peep in as a child. And now it is too late. If only I could have taken the pictures with the kid's eyes, they would have been more interesting to look at.

If you wonder, what is in the second picture, it is mushrooms.

Merino Star Trek

Sleeveless sweater from Merino 6 ply, needles 8, ordered through the handpaintadyarn.com and announced earlier. The yarn is perfect, it is soft and thick and it will be hard to go back to acrylic stuff that is waiting for me unfinished somewhere. The pattern, as you guess, doesn't exist, the vest is T-shaped and the cables swing and twist as they come. The tightened parts are part of the effect.



It is kind of obvious that it is a sort of a crude sweater, knitted as the idea was developing in my head. So, the biggest influence, the idea of crossed cables comes from here, this girl has amazing sweaters, knits fast and on top of it she looks very stylish and takes very stylish photographs of herself. When I spotted it I knew it was a time to reconsider my knitting, that I should forget about classics, at leas for now, and get wild. Now I feel in it like being in a science-fiction movie from the 70s. It is the shoulder part that recalls the fashion of that time and the cables look like an interior of a dangerous machine. I like it. I wonder, how does merino wash?

My creations

This is what I created. A year and half ago. It is sweet and soft and likes to play.

I also created a heading for a dictionary of art historians for my own person. Sounds strange but it is true. Most of the time writing it I spent on working out the "short characteristic of the art historian activity, specialization of the research interest". Quite tricky, considering that I am somewhere at the beginning (or at the end?). And now it's going to be printed in a book forever! I even got my husband to help me but he lost his patience and left the room.

Other than that, I have been creating some silly things for my little guy, but I will wait for them to be ready to post them. So far he has to walk naked.

Knitting in progress

Psycho Test II

This man knits his sculptures. He is actually one of the naive artists who have been finally discovered after they life long struggle with life and art. His name is Alfred Stief, he is a German and our friend in Berlin, who is involved with naive art and art brut has visited him to be able to promote him on the art fair AND SHE HAS A NICE PIECE BY HIM. Even nicer than those on the pictures here that are downloaded from the internet. I say nicer but it is actually as nice as the color one in the third picture (it was the garter stitch and the way the colors mingle in it that attracted me) but the sexual sign has been delicately removed or hidden so that it could have been shown on the art fair in US. :)

July has gone

I don´t mean to be sentimental, the title just occured to me, because I am putting up this picture. It is very summery and so it is my holiday at my parents, with the little guy and finally with the bigger guy as well. Lot of swimming and sunbathing. The river is amazing.

So, the piece is called July. My mum made it as one of many for her thesis from Art education sometime in the 80s. It is the only one she didn´t get rid of and it still decorates the hall in the old house. It is also the nicest.