rauls "teddy bears picnic"

this should bring a smile to your face, sing along please!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZANKFxrcKU

now sit back and experience the wide screen extravaganza!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuNf70eV6sY

you are invited to send bear images, quotes and text for my "unbearable project"

have a look at this next site, images by my friend raul morgado photographer xstrawinnair?

raul can be found wandering camera in hand, cap on backwards in quirky places, there is no hiding place from his roving lens...................... http://raulmorgado.pt.vu

thoughts on travel and journeys

these thoughts occur to me when i am working in my sketchbook.
travel for pleasure! a mysterious journey! the simplest journey is by foot!
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." –- Henry Miller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z79Sha1NjvA&NR=1

"No matter where you go, there you are." – unknown

zefa 1 the stone raft part 2

this is the start of part two of the stone raft at zefa !, in almancil, the first few pages of my sketchbook illustrating my thinking process in constructing the painting.the adventure continue from the "salir painting", the story so far, is about cause and effect, joana carda scratches a mark on the ground at the same time the dogs bark in cerberes...how can this be they have no vocal chords?
the story now tells of how the various participants in this mystery met and travel together .....with the dog ever guiding them...the dog with the blue thread in his mouth!i am continuing the idea of theatre, a stage set on which the characters live out the story.
a crack appears in astone in the pyrenees/
this painting starts with " alice" lifting the curtain to reveal a tiny door?....where does it lead??? where is the blue thread leading them?
joaquim sassa and jose anaico meet and decide to set out together, they sleep under an olive tree. joaquim gets up early and gets " deux cheveaux", it has a quiet gentle engine.........jose appears from then trees surrounded by 1000s of starlings so many the sky is black.
off they go in search of pedro orse who lives in orce near granada.pedro felt the ground under his feet tremble at the very instant joan scratched the ground at the very moment joaquim threw the stone at the same moment the dogs barked?
they are being drawn by an invisible magnet?
follow the journey and experience the sights!
i am including many different references from david hockneys "mulholland drive" painting to magrittes " empire of light"
who else will they encounter on this myterious escapade?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7pvA4EHi08

kerstin wagners open studio sept 19 and 20

kirstin wagner opened her studio " ganesha"to friends and visitors over the weekend.kirstin is a friend and fellow member of the algarve artists network.
you can see more of kerstins work a http://www.kerstin-wagner-art.de/

exposicao "a danca dos ursos" loule

the dancing bears are on show in loule from 18 sept to oct 5 at the castello,here i am with "ursa major minor",alongside me is my friend joao espada with his "urso" , see more at http://www.dancadoursos.com/, the bears will reappear at a different location soon.the jazz band "quarteto belle de jour" played during the evening. a group of bears is called "a sleuth" can anyone tell me why?

listen to this, a blast from the past....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8zI5xjwKYw

mobile home project loule 2009

mobile home a project that was run in loule as part of the allgarve art shows shown across the region during the summer,many of the shows where presented in unusual locations for example the salt mines in loule, a church in silves and fonte de pipe an old manor house in loule. milita dore an artist friend took part in the workshops,running over 5 weeks a very concentrated work period. 25 artist from the region took part and where aided by a number of guest artist/tutors whose role was to instigate a series of workshops that where thought provoking, the course was a combination of practice and theory, all members bouncing ideas around and off each other.this show is a presentation of some of the experiences that the artists worked through.the show is housed in an ex olive press which is a fascinating environment in its own right.the work is presented anonomously as it is a collective experience no part more important than whole, it is an accumulation of the results of thinking, it is the start of a kind of self-questioning...searching for a new language a means of presenting ideas.the show has the feeling of a " laboratory", there are many surprises to be had, some statements are part of the fabric of the building, sitting quietly waiting to be seen...or not as the case might be?some of the works are collaborations between artists.

the museum is a intruiging idea using the contained spaces in the press like a labyrinth of ideas and images.we feel like giants in the land of lilliput, a cabinet of curiosities.

it was instructive and enlightening having milita talk about the input of each artist/tutor each bringing something different to the project, which was a part of the whole.how the participants related to each other..............