Tree and wall; Mavroyenous Square, Parikia
Once upon a time, the world was big. There was so much space that, if you didn’t like something, all you had to do was “Go West”. But, gradually, so many went West that they created a crowd.
To share a mutual space implies limits. However, if we include others in the solution, these limits can be expanded. As in the foto above where tree and wall co-exist.
Adaptation is a form of creativity and flexibility.
Color has frequency and frequency has vibration. I like color because it moves.
Before
After
Above are fotos of La Sussurrata, our home on Paros. The top, when we first got it. The bottom, a few months later. As you can see, the easiest way to change the look of a room is by painting its walls.
Color is simultaneously form (because it occupies visual space) and content (because it expresses mood).
Warm colors move forward and cool colors recede. Some people are warm and some people are cool.
Paolina Bonaparte, Napoleon’s sister, while planning a party at Villa Borghese in Rome, learned that her arch rival was to wear a red dress. So the night before the party, Paolina had the walls covered with red fabric to obliterate the presence of her rival’s dress and who was wearing it.
Sameness neutralizes.
Itten color Chart
Itten charts, invented by Swiss painter and theorist, Johannes Itten, show how the rapport between one color and another changes the color itself. The visual behaviour of red next to green is not the same as that of the same red next to orange.
People are like colors. They change according to who they’re with.
Color affects our mood.
I like black because it intensifies any color that’s placed next to it. I don’t like brown. Like wilted flowers, brown is the color of that which has gone away.
Research does suggest that color can affect your being and that your choice of color or combinations of color is significant to your mood. Color preferences are not necessarily fixed and will vary even within a given day depending on psychological circumstances.
To limit your desire for food, eat off a blue plate because, for some reason, blue is an appetite suppressant. Alfred Hitchcock knew this. One time he invited people to dinner he considered pompous and offered them food that had been tinted blue with food coloring. It was very hard for his guests to eat blue soup, blue fish, blue salad. Would you eat an egg white that was blue?
Much of the information above is via Daily Aesthetics and for more color related links, go HERE.
These purses were part of an exhibition, Muy Marcottage, held at M’arte Gallery in Liguria.
Summer clutch
Above is a clutch bag made from a transparent detergent bottle. The top of the bottle was cut off and replaced with a crocheted flap made from “plarn” (plastic bag yarn). It’s transparent making it easy to find what you need! A bit funky but fun!
Patchwork clutch
This, instead, was a worn out cosmetic case that I cleaned then covered with a patchwork of candy and other misc. wrappers. They were sewn on by hand.
from BEBINA BUNNY’S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Parians like music and live music is a norm during the summer. Last night there was a free concert at Parikia’s Manto Mavrogenous Square by Pantelis Thalassinos, a well-known Greek singer who spends much of his time on Paros. Wasn’t it lovely of him to give back to the island he loves so much?
Yiannis Parios is a well-known singer from Paros. A few years ago he gave a concert, too. It wasn’t free but he donated the proceeds towards buying a much needed air ambulance to transport islanders to a hospital in Athens, if necessary.
Generosity is a form of aesthetics.
And every year my friend, Athena Perantinou, organizes the Jazz Academy here on Paros. Soon the port of Parikia will be full of people getting off the boat with musical instruments. It gives a frizz to the air. People who have never met will soon be moved by the same music.
Music helps us connect to others.
Have you seen the video of Helen Keller at Martha Graham’s Dance Studio? Incredible! Despite the fact that she is deaf, Helen can feel the music’s vibrations and moves her hand in tune with its rhythm.
Rhythm is magical enticing the body to move. And movement is medicine.
