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Little Domi, my happy boy. I want to remember all the fun stuff and cute stuff that he says, nothing comes to my mind right now... He surprises me sometimes, the other day he said he liked the way the flower pots in our house look, they have salty "maps" on, from water, I guess, they look kind of dirty and run down but, yes, they are pretty, now that Domi says it...  

Houses

Since January I am a conservationist, it is my new job. I like it, I get to see a lot of buildings from the inside, something I have always desired, and now I do it as a job. I also get to see a lot of stuff to disappear, as the houses get reconstructed and all that nice craftsmanship is removed and in better cases replaced by copies or it just disappears and that is it. I can go on about this matter and I think I will it fit here and there in my future blog entries along with some pics.

A Pilgrim, a Castle, a Tree

 And on Monday back to work. Happy New Year!

Paper heads

I like this artist (the last two images), she has made great illustrations for children's books, besides she is a painter, a kind of Neo-constructivist. The only thing about her illustrations for kids is that kids generally don't really like them. I imagine, and I also recall from my own childhood that they were too freaky, I could not figure out what they represented, they were too surreal. The colours have been always appealing though. Today I appreciate them and I like her books conceived as objects, which I had not known before. They are both hard to get or find at all. I needed to give a try to some of her paper heads. The little guy took over the job soon after I started. He said it was a good way to pass the time while he waits to go to see his friend. He made another one, more to his style and interests.

what is important

We said to the little guy: All that Minecraft stuff you rattle around... But what is really important for you in the real world? ... Except for love to mummy.
- Love to Daddy.
- Ok, I don't mean that. Is it basketball? Guitar? Maths? Sarah? Rosa?
- Happiness, he said after little thinking.
And seeing that we liked it he added: Happiness and love to mummy and daddy.

The parents have been satisfied.

outing in the fall

Chrudim? Why? They asked us after we said we had gone to Chrudim. Such a normal town. Just two or three medieval churches with sculpture work and renaissance tombstones around the walls, crazy plaque column composed like a cylinder of clouds with putti and Eucharist on top of it (two Christs, before and after) and ... a puppet museum in a Renaissance merchant house. Not counting everything else, like old houses, sculptures, a mill, streets, shops and so on. It was overcast that day, rainy, windy, the city deserted, the square empty. Perfect day for a discovery.

Paris

Paris in 2006