My Zen teacher and friend is leaving Paros tonight. I will miss her. A lot.
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I wish feelings could be mended as easily as a shirt. And with the same joy, color and quirkiness.
on the beach of Lividia
Produce netting
Last year I wrote about A Change in Lifestyle and how one of my objectives was that of learning to live with less. In part, for principle. In part, for need.
Living with less is, in some ways BUT not in all, easy. It means using what you have before buying anything else. Take those slippery slithers left when a bar of soap is almost gone. They generally get dumped as they are difficult to use and look really sad. No one wants to touch them. Solution: put them aside until you have a few then clump them together in some produce netting like that that garlic comes in.
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These little netting bags are fantastic and can be used in so many ways. For example, fill them with dried herbs or spices and use them as sachet bags. Being on Paros, thus near the sea, often means that your clothes will aquire a yucky musty smell to them especally during the winter. So I fill these little bags with dried rosemary and hang them in the closet. They really help. And, in the kitchen, I fill them with dried bay leaves to keep away the bugs.
Bay leaf in netting
I also save the netting for art projects. There are two kinds of netting: rigid (like the garlic bags) and soft (like that for potatoes). At present, I am experimenting with the rigid netting for embroidery work (like cross stitch). And I cut up the soft netting into long strips that are then knotted together to use for crochet or cardboard loom weaving.
Below is a Muy Marcottage purse I made using cardboard, produce netting, and paper wrappers from oranges + art supplies from the grocery store!
Live and let live
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 Vibration
Color has frequency and frequency has vibration. I like color because it moves.
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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.
