Pictures + Finding Flow

I am here trying to find my flow again, I have enjoyed taking things slowly, so bear with me while I talk non-artsy stuff, because at least I'm starting the dialogue again. I finally downloaded the pictures from our trip back home to Mexico. I love going back although I definitely feel like an ex-pat (meaning, I don't belong there anymore, not really) and seeing everything new again is always interesting.

I am aware of how different everything is over there. The traffic pattern, and the street vendors and the architecture. It is all so pretty, I am also surprised on how many angels there are on buildings. Angels and crosses. They are everywhere and not only in churches. This definitely says a lot of things about our culture. The spiritual side is always present.

 

Also, I notice that the buildings and houses are made of whatever they look like they're made of. By this I mean, if you see brick, then that's a brick wall,... not sheetrock covered by brick just to make it pretty. Stone is stone, wood is wood. I call it Honest architecture.

 

And also, a diet coke is not a diet coke, it's called Coca-Cola light, and remember those glass bottles? Guess what... we still have them, there should be no other way to drink your coke, we should have a law passed to bring back glass bottles, more recylcling, less trash. And there is NOTHING like having tacos for breakfast with a cold glass bottle of coca-cola light.  And yes, I just said tacos and breakfast in the same sentence, barbacoa tacos, to be precise. Just heaven.

I am looking for my flow, my place where I feel comfortable drawing and thinking about where I want to go with my art, I am getting there, it's a process, but I feel it coming near, as if I could see it out of the corner of my eye. Angels and crosses, and pictures of a trip, also re-arranging the studio, all this helps. I am feeling a little drizzle, not long now before it comes pouring down.

Where is your flow?

Comments

[robyn]

Thank you for sharing the pictures from your trip. Your taco and Coke breakfast reminded me of something funny I saw on tv last night. A guy was saying he would normally have a breakfast pop in the morning and someone asked what's a breakfast pop? Well, a breakfast pop is one you have in the morning, of course! Actually he probably said breakfast soda, but you get the point :D

[jafabrit]

I enjoyed your pictures and commentary about them too. One of the things I miss so much about England is the architecture and how the mix the old with the new (I used to love all the old churches and graveyards). Many of the buildings here are so generic. Maybe that is why nancy and I have an urge to add gargoyle paintings to some of the buildings here LOL!