Love of Language

Thanks to John and my aging mind, I seem to work better under pressure. I searched all over Nice for a Moleskine, ordered one on Amazon that didn't arrive and luckily found what I was looking for on holiday in Sweden. Most of what I've done, I did on the plane. This is where John and pressure come in. I'm a plane spotter but terrified of flying. Thanks to the pens that John gave to me, I concentrate on line and color rather than turbulence and crashing. So, I made use of some delicious paper that I found at a gorgeous paper store in Stockholm, included the raven and a few Swedish words and this is the result.

My theme centers on both communication and language as well as text and image. I've included a variety of questions and words in the back so that you may have some fun playing around with text and image. The current exhibition of Eija-Liisa Ahtila at the Moderna Museet got me thinking about how we communicate both verbally and visually. Conversations with my French/English travel companion made us laugh when we discovered how often we miscommunicated using the same language. He often uses big, complicated words that I don't know and we often came away from an exhibition with completely different opinions. Language just makes for a spicy, meaningful life.

Sketchbook was put in the post this morning. Phew.