Category: Art
portugal (lisbon) day 9
Street art / social commentary images taken on a walk around Lisbon. This illustration perplexes me a bit, though. Is it a hanging eye-ball, head? This broke my heart. A lot. A ubiquitous image, I know. The Portuguese sailing ship sits on almost all street lamps. I wish I knew the symbolism of the flower…
portugal (lisbon) – day 6
A short walk from where we’re staying, there’s a Banksy Museum. Most of the pieces are reproductions of originals (for obvious reasons) done by a team of artists. The museum itself is a perfect space for his work. Made to look a little grungy and underground-bunker-ish. Banksy is a temporary, contemporary artist – an activist…
portugal (lisbon) – day 5
Today we went to the Gulbenkian Museum. Calouste Gulbenkian was born in what is now Istanbul and was from Armenian extraction. He was a businessman, heavily involved in oil export, eventually making his way to doing business with Shell. He was well known for his philanthropy. Over his lifetime, he accumulated a huge fortune and…
portugal (lisbon) – day 2
In Portugal with my mom and sis. We started the day with breakfast prepared in the flat. Coffee, toast, an omelette, and a small yogurt parfait which I assembled. Yeah! I know. It looks a little jumbled but it was so good. Fresh and sweet strawberries, banana, and granola on top of unsweetened yogurt. We…
paint
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perfect days
I’m often told that the chair in our bedroom is unusable because I treat it like a clotheshorse. Well – yes. I know. It’s true. (…ashamed!) I have no excuse. I know if I weren’t the one leaving clothes on it but *someone else* was, I’d probably point it out faster than you can say…