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=ersi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:26:25 PST

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Hello again! I seem to be burdening you with news from my work lately but there wasn't much more to tell. This is the very first time in my life that I am not free-lancing and the change has been quite abrupt. If it weren't for the issue of my work, directly related with art, I wouldn't have done it.
There is a bit of news I can share today though. From 16 December to 16 January I will participate in a group exhibition in the Finestra Art Gallery in Zaragoza, one of the major Spanish cities after Madrid and Barcelona. They invited me to participate and it was a wonderful surprise.
There will be 10 artists in all: painters, sculptors, photographers AND a fractalist! (Lil' old me.) It is the 10th edition of their "Small Formats" event and each one of us will have 4 or 5 pieces in the show. I'm still trying to decide which fractals I'll present though I'll probably make a new series for the event. I'll post the works here too, of course. And I do hope this time I will not forget to post some shots of the opening night and the hall itself
I decided to write this journal entry now, before I get swept away by the frenzy and disappear from sight. I do drop in to read comments, I even try to find the time to answer them, and I'll be happy to hear from you all.
Enjoy your weekend, babies!

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I just noticed my last journal entry was dated 5 October! Almost forty days went by and I hardly noticed it. It is taking me more time than I thought to adjust to my new job.

And how are you all?

I am currently making an inventory of everything in the gallery. Slow work! Not the most interesting on earth either, but it has to be done and it keeps me quite busy. There are many items here apart from the paintings: small pieces of sculpture, ceramics, photographs, exclusive costume-jewelry pieces, blocks and stationery of hand-made paper, even patchwork. I have to take a photograph of each piece and create a file with the details. I also plan to post more photos of the gallery here soon, it's such a special place! Aesthetically and emotionally pleasing (I hope this makes sense).

Our next art exhibition will be in March. Winter is low season here, as in most places, and organising an exhibition now would be wasting our - and the artist's - efforts. It was decided that we'll exhibit the older works of Gema Noguera, the painter who started this gallery and died a year ago. An event to honour her memory and her intense artistic and cultural activity in the area. This first show will run for three months, till the end of May.

We have just presented our budget for 2010 too, pending approval by the local Town Hall, who is financing the gallery activities.

And what about the cats, you may ask. Well, I found a nice, cosy home for the male kitten, whose name now is Tommy. His new family is delighted with him - especially the ten-year-old boy who insisted on having him. And there may be someone interested in the mother but this hasn't been confirmed yet. I'm in two minds about leaving the two female kittens motherless but it is also a fact that I cannot take care of 7 cats! Maybe I can convince the prospect father that he adopts two cats, the mother and one of the daughters. Then I would try take the other one in myself. Oh, that would mean a long territorial struglle with my A-team (my own four cats).

Ok, some visitors to the gallery interrupted my entry and now I must go. Keep well and happy, babies. I'll be happy to hear from you!

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Hello dear friends

This will probably be a short entry, unless I get carried away and forget I have other things to do. As you may have read in my previous journal, I am now taking care of the local Art Gallery and my life has changed quite a bit. For the better, needless to say!

I am at the Gallery every morning and afternoon from Wednesday to Sunday, and I'm free on Mondays and Tuesdays. I haven't been able to work on fractals or anything else, as you can imagine my new tasks keep me quite busy. Not that I have to keep a hectic activity but I do have to learn how everything works, etc. So I didn't log in in days and today I found a backlog of messages I'll probably won't be able to answer. I know you understand and I thank you from the heart for your affection and your support. I read every single message, even though I may not answer you.

My actual work has not started yet. Some time this week there will be a meeting where we will discuss the steps to take in the near future. The Project I presented was crammed with activities but it's a relief to know the administration prefers to take it easy. Some of my proposals may not even begin in 2010. For the time being, there are two things I'm eager to find out: 1. Who will be the first artist to exhibit in the Gallery. 2. How much they will pay me!

I won't be able to log into dA every day as I used to, at least not untill they buy a new computer for the Gallery. The old one is obsolete. We need a fast connection too. When these issues are settled, I'll log in from the Gallery and tell you all about my new experiences there.

On a side note -but not less important: On Saturday 26 September the Lil' One gave birth to three warm, cuddly and absolutely lovely kittens! I was there to see them come to this world. Everything went like clockwork and now a happy, bright new mother is nursing her babies in the entrance hall in front of my appartment. Two of them are black and the third is a grayish tiger-striped beauty. I can't tell if they're male or female yet.

And now I must leave. I need to use my days off to take care of my personal issues, do the shopping and paint a bit too. My thanks again to all of you and stay tuned!

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Now I Am an Art Gallerist!

=ersi — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:15:43 PDT

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Today is a very special day for me and I want to share my joy with you.

This summer was a difficult period. Some of you may remember that I never got paid for my last translating job and, coupled to that, no new work came in. My finances and I got very sad and desperate. A new job opportunity popped up in August and I focused on that. This morning I was informed that the job was mine. And here are the details:

There is an Art Gallery in the village where I live, the "Antigua FÃ¡brica Noguera". You can see a shot of the interior here:

Though the village is small and rather distant from the main artistic circles, the Gallery is important and it used to hold exhibitions of artists from all over Spain and even some South American countries. It really represented a centre of cultural activity in the broader area.
The building is an old paper mill -one of eight in the village- that was beautifully restored under the initiative and loving effort of Gema Noguera, the owner of the venue and a painter herself. She also acted as a gallerist till November 2008.
Then tragedy hit the Gallery and Gema's family. Having always been extremely sensitive, emotionally vulnerable and chronically depressive, Gema took her own life last November. I won't go into the details of that, out of respect for her family and her memory. I knew her, I used to drop by the gallery just to have a chat and see what she was working on (her workshop was in the same building) and she even proposed I held an exhibition of my fractals there. Her death was a painful blow to everyone here.
The Gallery remained closed for months. Then, by the end of Spring, the family started negotiations with the local Municipal authorities and the Provincial Government of Teruel to reopen the Gallery under the direction of a three-party committee. The Antigua FÃ¡brica Noguera was in fact re-inaugurated on 20 August with a collective exhibition of artists that had exhibited there in the past and (I'm proud to say) two of my fractals. This exhibition will run till 12 October.
But a new Gallerist was needed and a Public Employment Bid (is this the right term in English, I wonder?) was issued by mid September. Sixteen candidates presented our CVs, twelve were immediately deemed irrelevant and the remaining four were asked to submit an Artistic and Cultural Project for 2010. In three days!
I guess we all went crazy trying to organise our ideas and put them down in a coherent, convincing way in such a short time. We were interviewed on Tuesday morning and at eleven o'clock today the secretary of the local Town Hall called me to say I had been selected for the job!

Do I need to say I'm thrilled? Not only I get a job in times of financial distress but a job I love and I'm enthusiastic about. I start tomorrow. The Town Hall is taking care of the contract even as I write this, and this evening I'm meeting with the mayor and the counsilwoman on cultural affairs to discuss the details. Right now I only know I will be working from Wednesday through Sunday, 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00 hours. Initially it will be a three-month contract but I guess if things go well they will renew it at the end of the year.

Oh my God!

I'll keep you posted on the subject. Thank you for reading this and for your precious support always.

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Just a quick update to shout to the world that cat number 5 is p r e g n a n t !

She now has a sexy round belly to brag about and I think the big day will arrive soon. Fortunately, a woman in the village told me she may take her in, I'll have to check back again tomorrow and see if she really meant it. Lil' One wouldn't live in her house though but in the orchard shack. I wish I could find a real home for her, with heating, a window sill to sleep on and a nice, warm mat just for her. The winters are very cold here. Nevertheless, there are dozens of cats who are not allowed into the houses and make it through the winter, so I hope Lil' One (and her babies) will make it too. I'm not very happy with this arrangement but it's the only one I've found up till now.

Since the adoption is yet to be confirmed, will you all please cross your fingers so a better solution comes up in the meantime? If it weren't for my Possessive Four, I'd have taken Lil' One in myself weeks ago.

Not much news on other fronts. The publisher hasn't paid me yet, no new translating work on the near horizon and I'm looking for a job. Crisis? What crisis?

The weather has changed quite a bit. That unbearable heat finally went away and autumn moved in. The nights are quite cool and the days are pleasantly warm and golden. The leaves are still green but the light has changed and the sky is bluer. Autumn is really beautiful here.

I will now go outside to give Lil' One a hug and see if she needs more food. Behave yourselves and have a beautiful Sunday, babies!

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My hotel job ended on Sunday and I -as every single person working in our little tourist industry here- took two days off. What a luxury! I can't even remember what I did yesterday, mainly because I did very little. I practically lounged the day away, reading a bit, browsing dA a bit and watching TV another bit. I tried to read but I was still so tired I couldn't concentrate, so I closed the book and played with my cats.
Remember I had four cats? Well, now I have five!
On Saturday 8 August I suddenly heard a cat woefully crying in the street in front of my appartment. I didn't pay much attention at first, I thought it was a street cat. The crying stopped and started again late in the evening, and then I did pay attention. I looked around and saw a very young and beautiful female patrolling the roof of the house next door. She seemed confused and unable to decide which way to go. So I went down with a bowl of cat-food and called her. Oh my!
She came running and started to purr, meow, brush herself against my legs and gulp the food down all at the same time. Poor thing. She was famished and hugely relieved to see me there. I think someone just abandoned her and drove away. When she finished eating she followed me home. I couldn't take her into my appartment because there would be a huge cat fight. My four are very territorial and had been growling every time they heard her cry outside.
So I improvised a bed for her on the ground floor, under the staircase. I bought her kitten food and tried to spend some time with her every day. She settled there and started patrolling the surroundings. About a week ago we had a storm and the ground floor was almost flooded. When I came home from work I found her perched on a window sill, trying to find a dry spot on the ground. So I picked up the cat and her things and moved her to the second floor, in the small hall that gives access to my (and my nearest neighbour's) appartment.
She now lives there, safe from the wind and the rain. But she won't be safe from the bitter cold when winter comes. I am trying to find her a home but haven't succeeded yet. There are no animal-protection organizations in the area and I really don't know what to do. I can't just abandon her. I also fear that any day she will wonder away and come back pregnant. Then my problem will be multiplied by... five?
I don't have a name for her yet, I just call her Little One. She's half Siamese and very cute. Poor dear!

I really don't have more news to tell you. The hotel job just absorbed the rest of my time in August. Now I want to go back to painting. Starting tomorrow. Today I feel half human again and I need some more hours to relax.

We'll be in touch, the five cats and me

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Somewhere around here...

=ersi — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:52:50 PDT

I know I'm somewhere around here, I'm positive! I can't have disappeared just like that! People don't do that, why should I do that?

Ok, I have a couple of extenuating factors: I got a job for August in a local hotel. My! There's no exclamation point big enough to express my impressions. IT'S DEAD TIRING (no exclamation point, since there's none big enough...) When I get home there's only one thing I desire in the whole world. To take a shower. And a nap. (That's two things, isn't it?) Some days I can and some days I can't. Because we're also very busy with the chorus and that means extra rehearsals and performances. Did I mention I'm dead tired?

The watercolour exhibition finished on 15 August and I finally sold 6 out of 18 pieces. I think thirty-three per cent is a nice outcome, don't you? "The Seamstress" was one of the six, so I had to part with it. It's not easy, you know. I felt like telling the buyer: "How about purchasing a signed and numbered print so I can keep the original?" I didn't, of course, and out went the Seamstress. Out of the exhibition hall and out of my life. Oh, dear.

I'm not sure I keep a scanned copy of all the other watercolours I sold. When this exhausting August job is over I'll post as many as I can. I miss painting, working alone at home (though I shouldn't say "alone", my cats will be offended), deciding my own work-hours, etc. But I'll survive it all. Or so they tell me...

So this is the reason I'm barely here lately. Today I answered tens of messages and viewed hundreds of submissions but I'll fall behind again soon. And now I must leave again, I must be at the hotel at 16:30. Take good care of yourselves, enjoy your summer and miss me a bit, will you?

Up, Up, Update

=ersi — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:02:05 PDT

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Hello little dears and big dears
I have about 30 free minutes and I was seriously thinking about taking a nap but I decided to write a journal entry instead. I've been unusually busy all week long. Every evening from 6 to 9 I am at the local hall where my watercolours are exhibited. The village is full of turists and vacationers now, and many come in to look and comment. Some stay only for a couple of minutes, others show real interest and want to know more about the paintings, my work in general, etc. Since 1 August, when the exhibition started, I have sold four watercolours and four more have been reserved (out of 18). I'm quite satisfied with that, because I wasn't sure about sales at all.
Friends came to visit on Tuesday and they left on Thursday. That kept me busy too. I showed them around the village and the surrounding area, we went swimming in the river and drove around a lot, since two days are barely enough to see everything worth seeing here.
I also designed the programme for the Chorus performance on 21 August. We will sing Medieval popular songs and wear Medieval clothes and dance Medieval dances! It will be fun... and VERY hot unless the weather cools a bit. It did today and we even had a little storm at noon. I wish the extreme heat won't come back. Anyway, I thought I'd post the programme design in my gallery. The text is in Catalan, the language spoken in the Northeastern part of Spain. "Los Musics de Said" is the name the Chorus takes on when we sing Medieval songs and this is what the Arab text says. Or so they told me. And the small paragraph in the middle announces that we sing to collect funds for the restoration of a local chapel built in the fourteenth century and dedicated to Saint Anne.
I contributed the design for free, so it was not commercial work.
Take care, enjoy your weekend and be happy!

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Maybe you read about my troubles with a publisher two journal entries back. I won't go into that again, eventually it will be settled. In the meantime, I am trying to make the best of a jobless summer.
Creativity goes out the window when financial problems barge in through the door, so it hasn't been easy. It is not easy. But I managed to finish the watercolour series for the exhibition while jotting aside different ideas for future painting work. Two or three lines of work that could keep me busy -and very happy- for the best part of the next twelve months if I could only afford to give my full attention to painting.
I'm not letting you in to the secret, youÂ´ll find out eventually when I start posting the pieces in my dA gallery. Sometimes, talking about our projects before they are well on the way seems to take the steam out of them and I don't want that to happen. This is my time to sow. I am patiently and lovingly dropping my creative seeds into the soil, whispering cheerful lullabies so they may root and prosper. My tiny plain-looking seeds, so dear to me, so "nothing" to the rest of the world. For the moment. I'll have to water them and nourish them so they can grow and become beautiful (wouldn't that be something!) or, at the very least, interesting works of art.
This is my plan for the summer.
The weather is terribly hot. I wish it weren't, I wish I could wear long sleeves and sit in the shade with a block on my knees, drawing the beauty that surrounds me here. But even the shades are hot. There have been several forest fires in the area and it's a sad, sad sight. The air was heavy with ash particles and the smell of smoke. For three days the sunlight was the colour of copper and the heat was aflame. Now most of the fires are finally under control. The one nearest to my village was caused by a thunderbolt that hit a pine tree and started a slow, shimmering fire among the grass. They found the tree and the slashing trace of the thunderbolt.
The other six fires were apparently caused by man. The king of creation.
I'll go back to painting.

And on Monday she rested

=ersi — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:44:01 PDT

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Hello everyone
I think I can now write a journal entry, not a very long one, mind you, since I'm still very tired. Strike that. I'm worn out.
I was at the Artists and Artisans Fare this weekend. It took place in Valderrobres, the nearby Medieval town. Imagine the narrow, cobblestoned streets that lead up to the Castle lined with wooden stands exhibiting everything you can imagine, from paintings to cheese! Well, one of those stands was mine and I featured two different types of work: photographs and watercolours. I decided to risk selling my watercolours there (and having to paint new ones for the August exhibition in the village where I live). I was wondering whether I'd be able to replace them so quickly but I shouldn't have worried. I sold none!
I did sell several photographs, because the price was very low and it did not scare people away. I would have felt frustrated if it weren't for the fact that nobody sold much anyway. It was my first fare and I didn't know what to expect. The more experienced participants told me sales are usually better on Sunday but boy! I think the economic crisis gripped the visitors by the pockets and wouldn't let them take their wallets out.
Two whole days, from 11:00 am to 21:30 pm, are two tiring days! I know some of the artisans didn't sell anything at all and I'm very sorry for them. Not all of them live near Valderrobres, some had to drive more than 150 kms to get there and had to pay a night at a hotel, so I imagine they must have felt very disappointed.
The weather was sunny but very windy on Saturday and seeing drawings and light fabrics flying down the street was not such an odd sight. The wind calmed down on Sunday but the temperature went up and up till we all got to our knees and prayed for snow! (Am I exaggerating?)
So, now the Fare is over and I must concentrate on the August exhibition. Not today though. Today is my precious Monday rest!

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The past 8 days have been very hard on me. You can read all about it in my previous journal entry, I don't really feel like diving into the dirt again. I've been on a diet of very little food (couldn't stomach it), lots of water and tranquilizers. Don't try it, I don't recommend it
The Hotel commissions are on stand-by, because the tourist season started and Ruben is awfully busy. We had a little chat over coffee the other day and I told him I'll be here for the holidays, so he can give me the material whenever it suits him best.
I haven't gone back to painting yet. My head is full of all sorts of confusing images, I would need to make an enormous collage to accommodate them. Maybe I should.
For the time being, I'm planning to relax at home and take a nice long stroll through the countryside when it stops raining.
I wish you all a happy weekend and a life free of harsh, unjust people.

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Hello everyone.
This is not going to be a cheerful journal entry. Nor a lengthy one. I decided to write it to let you know how things are in my life right now. And they are not good.
Some of you may remember that I work as a book translator, free-lancing for various Spanish publishing houses. I've been doing this (in combination with my artistic work) since 1991, so I am not what you could call a newbie in the field. And now, after all those years, I came across an untrustworthy publisher.
I was approached last year by one of his collaborators (a personal friend too) because the publisher was interested in the translation of a Greek book. A fat one. We agreed on the price and I started the translation, a bit worried by the fact that the contract never seemed to find its way to my hands but also thinking that it was because the publisher went through major surgery in February and was behind in his duties.
I finished the translation in May and was told I would be paid at the end of June. I finally received the contract by mid-May so I felt everything was in order.
But I was not paid at the end of June and the publisher now states -by e-mail- that he won't pay me till September. He also disagrees with the price I set and his partner accepted months ago.
So basically, I haven't received any money since the end of March and I now have to wait two more months. I'm not a millionaire and this is an extreme situation for me. Things are now at the hands of a lawyer.
I am stressed and very, very angry. I am anxious about the immediate future and frantically trying to find the money I need to spend the summer. I stopped painting because I can't concentrate on art -or anything else. Suddenly and very unfairly I'm in deep crisis.
I'm sorry to communicate such bad news but I have no idea how things will fare and I didn't want to disappear from dA without notice. Being optimistic is next to impossible right now.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and lots of love to you all.

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I hope my recent "Post It" entries didn't annoy you too much

Did I ever say I had lots of artistic work to do, what with the exhibition, the hotel commissions, etc.? Well, now I have more! This morning I sent in the formulary to participate in the coming Fair for Artists and Artisans that will take place in Valderrobres on the 18th and 19th of July. It's a biennial event and this is the first time I'll be part of it. I'm not sure at all I can produce tens of extra paintings for the Fair, so I'll probably sell photographs (the ones I've been posting recently) and maybe prints of the watercolours I am making for the exhibition.
There are several Fairs a year in the area and they are a nice way to make one's work known. I wish I could share the stand with someone because a hot July day in the street can be hard but I'll take it as it comes and see what happens. Hey, I could become a popular artist around here!
The stalls will run along the streets of Valderrobres, those old cobblestoned streets that appear in my photographs. Many tourists come to spend their summer holidays in the area too, potential buyers, babies! I must get hold of a large umbrella and bottles of water, the usual temperature at that time of year can easily go up to 40ÂºC (that's 104 F). But I've decided to promote my artistic work and I'm willing to suffer the tortures of the campaigns. Up to a certain point.
The next Fair will be in a village called Rafales in November. Rafales is even smaller that Beceite (where I live). One of the attractions in the area is what they call The Tour of the Prisons. Medieval prisons where the Spanish Inquisition and the local lords locked up the criminals -and their opponents. Visiting them is a hair-raising experience. Tiny cells with no light or windows, thick stone walls, heavy iron shackles, dumb and cold. Some cells are so small that the prisoners could never stand upright in them. And some you cannot even call cells. They are holes in the earth, about 50 cms (20 inches) in diameter, where the prisoners had to stand and stand and stand... till they crumpled on their own articulations, I guess! Horrible!
A hot day in the streets of Valderrobres doesn't sound that hard anymore.
And now back to painting. As it turns out, I really like painting trees. Tall, stylish aspens and beech trees. Results are not so good when I try painting the characteristic flora of the area, olive trees, oaks and pines. They are glorious to see, big and luscious and impressive. But difficult to paint, mainly because you can hardly see their trunks and branches. You get leaves, leaves and more leaves. Tough!
By the way, "Valderrobres" means Valley of the Oaks

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Oh, never mind...

Playing now...

=ersi — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:34:29 PDT

...with my cats!

These shoes are made for walking

=ersi — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:07:53 PDT

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That's what a friend told me yesterday when she dropped in to see how I was doing.
She found me sinking in a sea of watercolour papers, sketch blocks with their pages torn out, reference books, printed copies of some digital paintings I want to turn into traditional artworks, and cat hairs. Fluffy, swirling, flying balls of cat hairs.
I was in my pajamas and barefoot, my sneakers lying quite apart from each other on the floor. I complained I felt overwhelmed and she picked up my sneakers and said: "These shoes are made for walking. Get out of the house and breath some fresh air!"
She was right. What with the watercolours I am painting for the coming exhibition in August, the rough layout of some ideas for the hotel bedrooms, a bit of translating work and trying to promote my website, I forgot there is a world out there, beyond the computer and my painting desk.
A wonderful world too. It rained a lot in Spring and now everything is green and luscious. A treat for the eyes. The weather is very hot though and the best time of day is 6 o'clock in the morning. Hmmm, coooool! But I'm not an early bird and you won't catch me walking my shoes at that shocking hour. On the other hand, my cats enjoy it. I think they spend all night long out on the balcony.
Oh, I forgot. There is still another project I want to work on. I want to make myself a nice printed portfolio over at Blurb. In spite of sharing my life with the computer, I am still very fond of books and physical materials. I want a book to show to potential clients, apart from giving them my web address, etc. More hours of work!
And then, of course, there's dA. I can't believe I still find time to be here, updating my journal and everything. I am writing this entry while waiting for a watercolour background to dry. Trees! I love painting trees. And the human figure. Nude, if possible (if I can find a model, I mean). After the exhibition is over I'd like to work on a new series of watercolours, something in the line of "Eleonora di Toledo"

Ok, I think the background is dry now. I'm off to add some tree trunks and leaves. And to have some iced tea. Hugs, everyone!

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YEAYYY!!!

Ruben, the owner of the new local hotel I was telling you about, the "Hotel Solfa", just left my appartment. He stayed for an hour and a half, we had some tea -yes, dears, very English-like- and went through my work with fractals and paintings. I also showed him a few sketches of a line of work I have in mind: simple drawings coloured -or stained- with watercolours and ink.
I'm proud to say he liked almost everything! He went through the images over and over again, asking lots of questions about my fractals and the possibilities of postwork. He may or may not buy some of my designs but: I got some commissions nevertheless!
He will bring me some old photographs to scan and (maybe) restore, since they were taken more than 40 years ago. I'll have to take some new photographs of the village myself, because the local archive is quite poor. Then, once we choose the definitive material, I'll postwork it adding some text and textures. Eight pieces for the eight bedrooms of the hotel.
I'm thrilled! I can't wait to get started. I will have to wait though, because Ruben needs to dig up the old photographs and some days will go by before he produces them. I tried to find a shot of the "Hotel Solfa" on the Internet but there's none yet. I'll take some myself and post them in my journal or in my scraps. It's a lovely establishment and the bedrooms are beautiful. I recommend it, if you ever come this way.
Soooo.... It's been a fine day today! For all of you too, I hope

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Yesterday afternoon I held the Creativity Workshop for children. Crazy!
I don't usually work with or for children and I didn't feel very confident but it went wonderfully well. The little ones helped me a lot, because I barely had to make a couple of suggestions and there they were, staining papers, their hands and their clothes.
I didn't mean to show them how to paint or draw "correctly", they learn that in school. I wanted them to experience what abstract painting may be. It wasn't difficult at all, children have "abstraction" in their minds before they get any notion of how they "must" draw things.
The results were extremely interesting. Not necessarily beautiful but interesting. Some of them created chaotic landscapes I would love to have painted myself, others were more formal but suddenly included abstract forms in their otherwise "traditional" creations. Or a yellow hand-print on the sky. That was the sun, of course, saluting from up high!
I'll talk to the organizing committee of the Cultural Association and suggest a 3-month course on Creativity starting October. If enough children subscribe, it'll be a ball

The whole idea occurred to me a year ago, when I went to watch the children paint "My Village" for a school competition. I saw them struggling with pencils, markers and rulers! to draw perfect square houses and triangular roofs. Oh, no, I thought. If that is what they learn in art class, they also need to learn to break the rules and the rulers and create freely. Yesterday's workshop was a small trial version of the (possible) course in Autumn.

They left the paintings there to dry and will pick them up this afternoon, so I'll head up in a while to take some pictures. I distincly remember a 7-year old boy who drew a fantastic diptych without even knowing what a diptych is. But the blue stains representing the sea connected wonderfully with those of his next painting and both pieces created a lovely visual rhythm. And a large blob of thick white paint was a cloud. Naturally!

I need to get back to my own painting too. Enjoy your weekend, everyone!

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The first week of June is "Cultural Week" for Beceite, the village where I live. It's packed with activities, from short courses on cooking to seminars on domestic violence and fun pastimes for children. On Friday afternoon I'm holding a Creativity Workshop for children ages 7 to 12 and yesterday I ran a workshop on Table Decoration for different occasions: Christmas, birthdays, formal dinners, informal lunches, weddings, whatever.
I had a great time and the people who assisted did too -I think . Fifteen women and one man! The male assistance was a huge surprise, since life and mentality here are not quite what you would find in a big city. He listened carefully and actually participated in the practice and offered a couple of ideas of his own. I was de-lighted!
The workshop was scheduled to last an hour and an half. It lasted two hours and the organisers finally had to interrupt us because they needed the room. Now it seems there's some demand that I give a table-decoration weekend course for Christmas. That would be in early December, probably. Hey, I'm having fun!

About my new journal skin: I named it "Lavender Season" and nicely saved it for future use and/or modifications. In fact, there's been a little modification since muy previous entry. I introduced a mini-thumb feature, because I think smaller thumbs look nice and unobtrusive and the normal thumbs do pop up when your pointer hovers over them. It's fun The coding for the mini-gallery is `thespook's and you can find it here: Journal CSS - Mini Thumbs

All those flowers growing in the fields and slopes and gardens around me must have influenced my mood. Especially lavender flowers, mmm, I wish I could add perfume to my CSS! So it's soft purple for the background and cream for the text. A cozy little garden at dawn, if you will.
I'm working on watercolours for the exhibition in August. If you think I'm an expert by now... you're wrong! Watercolour painting is supposed to be swift and it needs confidence in one's skills. But when I'm over-confident I can easily destroy a piece by doing exactly what I'm not supposed to do. At the beginning I felt so frustrated I stopped painting for days! Then I had a bright idea, that I bet ten million painters had before me. I tear up the waisted watercolour and keep the pieces for future collages! A small step for the artistic community, a huge step for me.
Ruben, the young man who runs the new hotel here hasn't been around to see my work yet, so no news on this department. It was actually better this way, because I can finish a couple of paintings I would like to show him. I'm free of translating work these days, so I'd better make the most of this freedom and paint my days away.

By the way: ALL my submissions to dA are open to critique and I have only received one, so far. An excellent one, by =EricForFriends on The Oracle. I'd like to invite you to read it, because it's so well written and it shows such attention to details and knowledge of a photographer's way of thinking. But... isn't there anything anyone can say about the rest of my work?

At the bottom of this layout there are permanent credits =Pyritie for the Mini Gallery and to ~spiritsighs-stock and =kuschelirmel-stock for the flower brush and the splatters I used in my Header image. My thanks go to them!

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Of my journal skin, that is...
All those flowers growing in the fields and slopes and gardens around me must have influenced my mood. Especially lavender flowers, mmm, I wish I could add perfume to my CSS! So it's soft purple for the background and cream for the text. A cozy little garden at dawn, if you will.
I'm working on watercolours for the exhibition in August. If you think I'm an expert by now... you're wrong! Watercolour painting is supposed to be swift and it needs confidence in one's skills. But when I'm over-confident I can easily destroy a piece by doing exactly what I'm not supposed to do. At the beginning I felt so frustrated I stopped painting for days! Then I had a bright idea, that I bet ten million painters had before me. I tear up the waisted watercolour and keep the pieces for future collages! A small step for the artistic community, a huge step for me.
Ruben, the young man who runs the new hotel here hasn't been around to see my work yet, so no news on this department. It was actually better this way, because I can finish a couple of paintings I would like to show him. I'm free of translating work these days, so I'd better make the most of this freedom and paint my days away.

By the way: ALL my submissions to dA are open to critique and I have only received one, so far. An excellent one, by =EricForFriends on The Oracle. I'd like to invite you to read it, because it's so well written and it shows such attention to details and knowledge of a photographer's way of thinking. But... isn't there anything anyone can say about the rest of my work?

At the bottom of this layout there are permanent credits to `ClaireJones who made the original journal design and to ~spiritsighs-stock and =kuschelirmel-stock for the flower brush and the splatters I used in my Header image. My thanks go to both!

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I made myself a nice (nice?) lil' website over at WIX

It's called FractalsbyErsi and is still under construction but it contains enough fractals and information to make it public.

I'm not a web designer, I basically used the resources WIX offers and just personalized it a bit. If you feel like taking a peek, I'd be happy to know what you think.

A tip to readers: WIX is freeeeeee

I am still working on the layout, adding pages and information. I haven't found out how to change the order of the pages yet but I think it's not so important. I'll dig up the information before my site becomes soooo popular mistakes cannot be tolerated!

And a little warning: you will not find my crazy, frilly fractals there. I updoaded a small selection of the styles I like most, leaning toward the sober and the conceptual. Some very colourful ones too, of course.

I will probably disable most of my fractal prints here in dA, except the postcards. I will sell limited-edition prints through my site. The price-list is not there yet, when I post it there will also be a link to PayPal.

And that's all for now. Huggies to you all!

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Clubs

What May may bring

=ersi — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:39:00 PDT

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How's your Sunday, gals and boys?

It's a windy affair here. After a week of high, suffocating temperatures, we had a storm of sorts last evening and the wind is howling this morning. Through my windows I see swaying poplars and swirling dust clouds. It's beautiful -and it makes my cats nervous .

The village where I live (Beceite) is in an area many people call "the Spanish Toscana". I'm not sure why, because the scenery is quite different. But it's just as beautiful, so maybe this is the reason. Several rivers run through the area so it's GREEN, covered with luscious vegetation. And, naturally, it's quite turistic too. Fortunately, it's a respectful, discrete kind of turism. No huge hotels, no invading motorways, no rampant development.

There are many rural turism establishments though, several of them in Beceite. Some time ago I sold a large fractal print to one of the hotels here, I told you all about it in a previous journal entry. And now a new hotel will be opening soon. It's right in the village and it's been restored and decorated with great care and good taste. The building was a paper mill (there were eight paper mills here in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most of them turned into hotels now), then it became an olive-oil mill and press and eventually it was abandoned.

A friend knows the owner, so we went to see the building and chat a while. I noticed the walls are still bare, no photographs, no works of art of any kind. So I offered to show Ruben (the owner) my work, see if he likes it. He'll probably come by the appartment late this week to have a look at my fractals and watercolours. He doesn't have a clear idea of what he would like on his walls but at least a couple of paintings of the village and the area would be nice and convenient. So I'll try to finish two large watercolours before he comes.

Wish me luck?

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I just updated my journal by mistake, before writing anything in it. Sorry

What I really wanted to say is that I just became a member of a fine Club here: *ElClubdelaPalabra It's a club for Spanish-speaking writers and I decided to join because I do write every now and then. Some of my short stories were published by a literary magazine more than 10 years ago. It was called "El lateral" and was published in Barcelona.
Those writings belong to the past. I don't feel they represent me anymore, so I won't post them here. But I will be posting a series of short stories that are still meaningful to me. They are all in Spanish and I'm not sure I'll translate them to English. They say the author is the worst possible translator of their own writings and I think it's true. I find it difficult to distance myself from the structure that supported my original thoughts and expressions, the structure of the Spanish language.
I made the decision for two reasons. Because I found out about the Club and because I've been writing a bit again lately. I thought I would keep that a secret but you can never trust secrets, you know. They have a way of getting out and being told, nasty things!
If I can make a collection amounting to 150 pages or more, I can send them to a publisher. I'd love to do that. I love literature and I would be honoured to have a book published. It's hard work though, and I mean HARD! Not just the long hours spent on the task but the emotional effort, the introspection, the mental toil. [A huge emoticon for sighing comes here.]
A note on style: my writings are similar to my fractals, at least the intention behind them is. They are a tiny bit conceptual, a tiny bit elliptical (this means I don't say it all, I let the reader fill in some gaps) and a tiny bit minimalistic. I'm looking forward to the comments and the critiques I may get in *ElClubdelaPalabra, it's always very interesting to know what other people make of your creations.
So now I'm a one-woman-band. I write, I paint, I sing and I make fractals. No time for work. Any contributions to my chaotic cause are happily welcome, just hit the "Donate" button! (Just joking, of course . Or not?)

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I've been away again, for almost a month I think. Good to see you all!

I forgot to write about a new activity that still makes me shake with laughter: Now I'm a soprano!!!
There is a choir where I live, a modest village choir that usually sings in weddings, festivities, solemn occasions, etc. I decided to join it some time ago. The director tried my voice and she put me with the sopranos! I am now taking private singing classes with her and it's such FUN. I am working on my voice, to "educate" it and expand its possibilities. I love it so much! I also exercise at home and this is yet another endeavour that takes time and keeps me away from here. I wanted to share it with you and please, feel free to laugh! I still can't believe it myself

I spent some hours today browsing deviations and reading comments. I won't be able to answer them all and I'm sorry for that. I will also probably be away more in the future. Real life came up with some interesting propositions and it lured me away from the Internet. Let's see:

I have been selling some of my artworks, fractals and traditional pieces too. They seem to have some fans willing to spend some euros on them. So I shifted my attention to my direct customers for a while. If this real-life market prospers, my time on dA will be more limited.
Traditional painting keeps me occupied for hours. I'm working on watercolours now and I'm enjoying it thoroughly. But boy. They're not easy! I seem to be developing a style -at long last- and this process is not easy either.
From the 1st through the 14th of August I'll hold an exhibition of my traditional paintings in the local Town Hall. So I have to make art specifically for the occasion. More work! Even less time for dA.
And finally, I'm thinking of getting into new things (that, in fact, are quite old). I used to do batiks when I was young (well, younger anyway) and I feel like going back to that. I may be able to sell scarves, lamp-shades and decorative pieces through a local store. It sounds fun and the project appeals to me.
Do I still remember how to fractal? I'm not so sure. Anyway, I upgraded to UF 5.02 a couple of weeks ago and I'll post my first fractal with it. The "Critiques" option will be enabled but don't be very harsh. Please?

So! Hugs and kisses all around and my compliments on the beauties you've been creating while I was away!

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A Tree with Jewels!

=ersi — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:23:55 PST

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A friend asked me if she could use my "Tree with Leaves" fractal in the design of a website she is making for her daughter. Clara makes jewelry with seeds and other natural materials, beautiful work! And last evening I was wonderfully surprised to see how well my friend, Conxita (pronounced "Conchita"), used the tree on the main page of the site. The leaves "fall off" the branches and move to the sides, where each one of them turns into a photograph that is, at the same time, a link to a certain line of jewelry. If you feel like taking a look, this is the link: claraflorensa

The site is in Catalan, the language spoken in Catalonia, on the north-eastern part of Spain.

Conxita worked as an illustrator for years. She is currently also building a new website for herself and, though it's not finished yet, I'm sure you'll enjoy the images you can see there. It's a tale illustrated by her and you can view it here: laconxita

I'll update my features later today -if I have the time

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A while ago I found out that `hellfirediva and her husband have been able to gather the 6,000 dollars necessary so they could avoid the foreclosure of their home. The largest part of it -if not all- through donations made by members of dA. I feel relieved and I can't even begin to imagine the relief they are feeling. I hope things will look up for them from now on.

On the recent issue of phishing in this site, today I read a couple of journal entries that can help understand the problem and take measures to avoid it.
*ForksOfTheSalad explains phishing very nicely in Let's Talk Phishing .
And =FreakyBabe suggests a script to get rid of the problem in Use this script to get rid of the spam

I'll update my features later today -if I have the time

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Help `hellfirediva. The former Macro Photo Gallery Director and her husband are about to lose their home to the bank if they cannot raise 6,000 dollars SOON. This is very urgent. Please read `Lilyas's journal and go over to Chipin to donate. Any small sum is important. Almost 3,000 dollars have been raised already but they're far from enough. Donations are made through PayPal so the procedure is secure.

And now with the normal features I normally don't renew as often as I should .
I just found ~john-gray-on-DA's gallery this morning and I was very much attracted to his work. He does photography and manips, his style is quite dark and the contents quite subtle. I always fall for subtlety, you know that (except when I make crazy, pink fractals, that is).
I hope you'll like John Gray's work too. A Sunday afternoon is a fine opportunity to go by his gallery.

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The title of this journal entry may sound strange to most of you but in my country -Greece- we always wish a Good Month on the first day of each month. It's as natural to us as wishing a Good Day or a Happy Birthday .
So February is here without even asking for permission and it's just not fair that time should fly. And I catch myself thinking "Hmm, yesterday I forgot to update my journal, I'll do it now", but yesterday was, in fact, last week!

Yesterday (the real, true yesterday, 31 January) I posted a poll, you will find it right here, to the right of my journal entry. I would appreciate it if you took a couple of seconds to vote. I decided to add a customizable module featuring a single deviation every day and I put this module on my mainpage. Unfortunately, dA won't let me move it up near the top and I rather doubt that many viewers scroll down my mainpage to see everything. So the alternative would be to add the module to my journal page. What do you think? Where would the featured deviation get more exposure? (It's not my work I feature, by the way.)

And now with the normal features I normally don't renew as often as I should .
I just found ~john-gray-on-DA's gallery this morning and I was very much attracted to his work. He does photography and manips, his style is quite dark and the contents quite subtle. I always fall for subtlety, you know that (except when I make crazy, pink fractals, that is).
I hope you'll like John Gray's work too. A Sunday afternoon is a fine opportunity to go by his gallery.

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There are HUNDREDS of messages I need to answer and right now I don't even know where to begin. You see, an extraordinary thing happened yesterday.
I turned on my computer, rolled up my sleeves and sat on my chair with the honourable intention of answering all those messages and comments piling up in my message centre. It was an extremely windy day, winds of up to 160 kms/hour howled and screamed and whirled over the village, summoning hordes of leaves off the streets and against the faces of the reckless few who ventured out in those conditions. A pack of tourists was reported flying over the roofs in a disorderly and most disrespectful manner, some even legs-up! They caused quite a commotion, I can tell you.
Now seriously. A huge gust of wind carrying a loudspeaker and some kind of picklock managed to open one of my attic windows and squealed its way into my house. Very intimidating. The cats were fast enough to run downstairs and hide under the bed. I managed to hold on to the table and eventually crawl under it. My papers flew madly all around the appartment (when everything calmed down I had to give them a mild dose of tranquilizer).
And. When everything calmed down and I closed the attic window again, I realised that the wind had messed with all the messages in my dA centre, sending them this old way and that -especially that. So it will take me some time to re-order them and start answering. I must even aknowledge the possibility of not being able to do that at all.
So please accept my thanks for your faves, comments and devwatches through this journal entry. I appreciate every single one of them.
Oh, and I filed a complaint against the wind. The local authorities are looking for him even as I write this, if they catch him on time, he'll have to help me straighten out the mess.

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Gallery Editing - Solved!

=ersi — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:47:02 PST

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Yesterday I wrote a journal entry asking for your help on the following:

"Do any of you also have trouble editing your galleries and gallery-folders? I have been trying to add recent submissions to my subfolders but they won't stick. The gallery page updates by itself and automatically goes back to its former content, disregarding my efforts. So, for instance, my latest "Pillow" simply denies to go to my "Royal Pillows" subfolder."

I'd like to thank all of you for your answers and suggestions

I contacted the Help Desk and today -that was quick, thanks, Help Desk - I received an answer from $ewm, it goes as follows:

"It sounds like you may have an extension that automatically installs itself without asking. Could you please go to Tools>Add-ons and under the extension section please see if you have the Skype extension as it is known to cause these issues. If you have it please disable it."

Et voilÃ ! Problem solved! I have been able to put my deviations in the corresponding sub-folders and everything works like a clock!

I thought I'd write an entry about it, for those who may experience the same problem and haven't contacted the Help Desk yet. I use Firefox and recently subscribed to Skype, I'd never imagined that little icon on the far right of my browser's window was sabotaging my dA gallery! Apparently, Firefox extensions can do that, and some of them simply install themselves without any warning.

So! All my pillows appear now in the SitBack feature at the top left of my main page. No intention to make you watch it. Just do it!

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This is a little call for help before I report a (possible) glitch to dA. Do any of you also have trouble editing your galleries and gallery-folders? I have been trying to add recent submissions to my subfolders but they won't stick. The gallery page updates by itself and automatically goes back to its former content, disregarding my efforts. So, for instance, my latest "Pillow" simply denies to go to my "Royal Pillows" subfolder .

I do appreciate any help and information on this terrible pillowfight I've been having! Thank you .

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Silent No More

=ersi — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:47:06 PST

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I just watched Barack Obama take his oath and listened to his speech. I was moved by his words and the conviction in his voice. I was happy to hear him mention greed as one of the major causes of the world troubles today. I was happy to see a black man representing the United States. Time will tell how many promises he will be able to fulfill. But for now... it's the first time in many years that I am willing to put some hope on a powerful politician. And I feel like congratulating us all. May a better world be possible.

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Silent Features

=ersi — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:13:59 PST

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My New Home!

=ersi — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:36:41 PST

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I scrapped it!

I finally posted some shots from my new appartment and the surrounding area. Today has been so wonderful and the day has behaved so well that it snowed again! So I included some photos of the snow too. I posted everything in my Scraps Folder and I would suggest you browse from my first submission to the last, not the other way around (since our last submission is the first to appear when you visit a gallery).
As you will see, there's still a lot of work to do. But I thought the place looks decent enough already and I was so impatient to share it with you all that I decided not to wait any more.
So, take a walk on the scrap side . I hope you won't be bored.

from fractals to paintings...

...and back again. I haven't uploaded any traditional paintings for some time but this doesn't mean I've given up painting. (It only means I'm increasingly reluctant to post work that isn't so good as it could be.) I am working with pencils, watercolours, acrylics and some collage-work. I have tried to "blend" fractal shapes with other kinds of images and some of the results are quite interesting, though there's still some way to go before I'm entirely satisfied with them. And I think I must re-consider my activity on the web. I am basically talking about making it more profitable. The amount of time and effort implied rrreally scares me but it's something I need to face if I want to become more professional in the field of art.
In the meantime I am rendering some more fractals for my dA gallery, I may be in time to post one of them later this evening.
Hugs to everyone!

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A Good Start

=ersi — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:56:01 PST

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lazying and rendering

This is a really sweet Saturday . I woke up late to a bright, sunny morning. When I opened the shutters the sun flooded my appartment, and my cats trailed me from the bed to the kitchen to the breakfast table. A grey heron from the nearby mountain gorge came to rest for a while on the river weeds right under my balcony and it felt like a good omen.
It was!
Some of you may remember that I held an exhibition of fractals in a local hotel in the summer of 2007. Well Angeles, the owner, called me this morning to confirm that she wanted Three Come One for the hotel lounge. It will finally be a 1.5 m (60 inches) long print mounted on wood! The modern design of the fractal contrasts well with the otherwise classical decoration of the lounge, it even seems to hold a strange afinity to it. I'm obviously very happy with this and I just disabled my submission here as a print, since Angeles wants it as a unique artwork.

I couldn't have wished for a better start for the new year and I do hope everyone will have beautiful surprises marking the beginning of 2009!

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Well, what did you expect? I have four cats and they all definitely insisted on appearing in my NEW layout! Miaou! I mean, Wow! I finally found the time needed to grab this gorgeous layout for me. And my cats.
I really don't have much to say except to wish you all the bestest and happiest year yet .

And a hearfelt -and somewhat desperate- wish for peace and justice.

my fractals

I haven't really been focused on fractals lately. But fractals are being quite nice to me nevertheless. Remember that TV interview back in February? Fractal Art by Ersi Samara They've released it on four different occasions and I've had many (mainly Spanish-speaking) visitors to my blog as a result. Today I had a lovely surprise. Professor Miguel A. F. Sanjuan, member of the Group of Non-Lineal Dynamics, Theory of Chaos and Complex Systems at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos wrote an article on fractal geometry and included links to my blog, my YouTube accound and my dA gallery to illustrate his presentation!
How good is that? (I hope neither the kind professor nor his students will ever ask me anything related to fractal theory!)
If any of you know Spanish and are interested, this is the link: weblogs Complejidad

~petits-reves

Her username means "small dreams" in French and her work manages to convey a dreamy quality in otherwise perfectly realistic images. I love it and I am featuring it. Enjoy!

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it's snowing

I wasn't able to write a new journal entry for Christmas, it's a pity, because I wanted to wish Merry Christmas to everyone here. I'm busy these days, friends are visiting and I am spending lots of time in the kitchen. Special meals, Christmas cookies... the lot! I try not to think of 2 January, when I'll have to go on a diet.
This morning we finally had the wonderful surprise: It's snowing! I'm not sure when it started because I was in the kitchen -of course- but it's already settled on the ground and rooftops. And it's freezing. I went out for a while and it was Absolutifically Cold!
So, just in case I don't have the time to update my journal on the 31st, I'm sending a big, warm Happy Holidays to you all. And may the New Year be Good! (It is even allowed to be Wonderful if it feels like behaving.)
I'll post something as soon as I can get my eyes off the snow

my fractals

~petits-reves

Her username means "small dreams" in French and her work manages to convey a dreamy quality in otherwise perfectly realistic images. I love it and I am featuring it. Enjoy!

I'm Still Around!

=ersi — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:34:13 PST

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and still settling

I haven't updated this journal in almost a month. I've been moving house, in fact, I'm living in my new place since 17 november but... there are loads of things still waiting to be carried here. This move will last six months!
A major problem is that my back aches. Whenever I busy myself too much with things, I have to spend a day in bed. This is maddening, annoying, problematic and PAINFULL!
The second obstacle is my translating work. There's a lot of it. I have to spend several hours a day at the computer and when I'm finished, around 5 in the evening, it's already getting dark and I don't feel like going in search of parcels AT ALL.
As a result, half of my things are still in the old house. From frying pans to clothes to my easel and dozens of books.
In spite of the inconveniences, I'm very happy in my new place. My cats too! The weather is very cold, we've had rain, strong winds and even some snow this morning. But the house is warm and cozy, we cuddle inside and watch the river flow.
I'll post the promised photographs when everything is in place.

my fractals

I've hardly posted anything these past weeks, except a couple of Christmas Card designs. But fractals are being quite nice to me nevertheless. Remember that TV interview back in February? Fractal Art by Ersi Samara They've released it on four different occasions and I've had many (mainly Spanish-speaking) visitors to my blog as a result. Today I had a lovely surprise. Professor Miguel A. F. Sanjuan, member of the Group of Non-Lineal Dynamics, Theory of Chaos and Complex Systems at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos wrote an article on fractal geometry and included links to my blog, my YouTube accound and my dA gallery to illustrate his presentation!
How good is that? (I hope neither the kind professor nor his students will ever ask me anything related to fractal theory!)
If any of you know Spanish and are interested, this is the link: weblogs Complejidad

~nadiard

I'd like to feature the work of this deviant. I recently discovered her and I loved the delicacy of her photographs. There are few pieces in her gallery but I think she is worth watching.

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The Last Laugh

a new place for me

This morning I started moving my things to another house. An appartment, really. It's in the same village where I have been living for the last three and a half years, only it's better. New from the box! It's in a big old stone building that used to be a paper mill decades ago. It was recently restored and turned into appartments. Mine is on the last (third) floor and has an attic, where I am installing my work place. I'm very happy with the change. As soon as everything is in place I'll take some pictures and post them to my Scraps folder, so I can share my new home with you all!
I may be offline for a day or two and when I reconnect I'll have loads of comments and new deviations to tend to. I know you understand.
Hugs to everyone and see you soon in my new home!

fire, passion and red thoughts

A little search among my Faves looking for red in any hue, form and manifestation. If you scroll down a bit, you'll see it too.

caution: scrollbox on fire

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fire, passion and red thoughts

A little search among my Faves looking for red in any hue, form and manifestation. If you scroll down a bit, you'll see it too.

a little self-promotion

I have just submitted some of my pieces as Greeting Cards. I hope you like my selection. If there are other designs that you would rather have in this format, please leave a comment or note me

Days of Cards and Flowers

=ersi — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:21:16 PST

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a little self-promotion

I have just submitted some of my pieces as Greeting Cards. I hope you like my selection. If there are other designs that you would rather have in this format, please leave a comment or note me

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The Last Laugh

The 2009 Fractal Calendar Contest - INFO here

enjoy watching Obama win the election

I certainly did! In spite of the estimates, I wasn't so sure he would make it. Some analysts pointed to the possibility that many voters would change their mind at the last minute, not daring to vote a black man into the White House. I'm happy they didn't (change their mind). Though I was born and grew up in Greece, and have been living in Spain for the latter half of my life, what happens in the United States defines the fortunes of all of us. In this globalized world, Obama will be our president too.
I still have my doubts. It's common knowledge that his campaign was amply funded by important financiers on Wall Street, the real lords of the world. I don't think they would invest their money in a candidate who would likely govern against their interests. So, foreseeably, Obama will not revolutionize politics. In spite of this, I'd be delighted to see him do it! I sat back and enjoyed the information trickling in on TV last night and I feel relieved today. I hope his election is a step away from doom.

enjoy watching the show

Since when does this feature exist in our galleries? I only found out today! And it's great! The full-screen view is sheer pleasure to watch! And being able to embed it in our blogs and websites is fantastic! What can I say? dA, you're just terrific

^Kaotika

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grrrreeting cards are here!

I hope you like Greeting Cards as much as I do. By now you probably know that dA has enabled this print-product and I think it was long due. I have started submitting some of my artworks in the greeting-card format to see how they fare. I'd like to design a special presentation for my square-format images so they will have to wait for a couple of days. Or four?
For the time being, these are the Greeting Cards you can find in my store:

White is a state of mind

A Soft Day Coming

Eleonora di Toledo
If you are interested in any of my pieces, please note me .

now let's go on with me

I have put three 2009 Calendars on sale. The updated version of last year's Fractal Calendar

a new Spiral Calendar

and the myGreece Calendar, featuring photographs

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I have been posting lots of photographs lately, particularly some shots deteriorated by a flood in my storage room when I came to this house. Many were lost forever, others became bizarre products of a not-yet established Water Manipulation category, and others I am working on to recover and even enhance them.

And I became a member of a photography club here:

You can find the works of many fine photographers in its gallery, if you are interested in this form of art, do take a look. (Though if you are interested in this form of art, you have probably taken many looks already )

I'd like to feature here a series of shots I saw today and that I find wonderfully delicate and beautiful. Whimsical too -maybe? And bashfully seductive. They are the work of devllaa , hi vera, I love them!

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out of headers

Today I'm doing a special feature on a photographer I discovered only yesterday. Only four of his works appear in this journal but his entire gallery is worth taking a slow, delighted look. I won't say more about it, words can sometimes be trivial. Fortunately, the beauty of his photographs is very eloquent in itself. Enjoy the work of juhe

those colours!

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a DD and more: Theft Alert!

=ersi — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:20:22 PDT

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over at Flickr again

I just read ArtOfDecay's journal alerting of a new case of ripping by a Flickr user. You will find "his" gallery here: [link] . There are many artworks from dA, please go through the 11 pages !! because you may find yours too. I found one of mine. Some of the images retain the original creator's name and others I would swear are from dA but cannot recognize the usernames. Well... not everything is candy .

fractal dreams come true

I am still so overwhelmed with my DD yesterday and all the warm support I received from hundreds of deviants, that I can't believe the extra bonus: I won the contest for FractalDreams' first birthday as a club! I'm quite speechless and unable to find the right words to thank everyone, please bear with my clumsyness. This is my winning entry:

Birthday Submission

7 September was an extraordinary day for me and I must thank all of you for it!

deedeeing my Sunday away...

I thought I would log in just for a while to check my message centre and it happened again: I found out I got a DD!

A Spiral with No Name

I am so grateful to Lucyolla for suggesting it and for her wonderful way of describing my fractal. Thank you, dear, I was really touched by your description!
A great big THANK YOU also goes to Sophquest , out tireless Fractal Gallery Director, for featur...

The Holgaroid Effect + Features

=ersi — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:42:53 PDT

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photography did it

Today I posted several fractals, quite a submission frenzy compared to my limited activity here lately. I'd like to state that the Photography galleries are guilty for most of the colours.
I'm so in love with the Polaroids, the Holgas, the vintage colourings and associated distortions, that I tried to reproduce some of those hues in my fractals. In the Red Sea is the most flagrant example, though That One Thought is also "under the influence" and the hue variation between the upper and lower halves of Square Roots is due to the same effect too. Well, almost every fractal I posted today is, so no need to expand on that. I feel in debt with the photographers that captivate and inspire me, so a collective thank you goes out to all of them.
I hope I'll have the time necessary to keep exploring these hues in future work, and I also do hope you like them!

those colours!

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pink your choice

it's a sin

I've always known deep in my heart that pink is the most sinful of colours. It's girlie stuff, it's corny, it's kitch, it's unwearable, it's impossible, it's a scandal. I've kept away from it as much as I could. Today I succumbed.

featuring my defeat

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lady eleonora

Noble Eleonora di Toledo was quite enthusiastic about dA's New Prints Products and insisted I submitted her portrait in these categories. So now you can buy Her Gorgeous Eminence as a wrapped canvas and a fine giglÃ©e print on paper.
In case you were wondering...

my explorer

It's not a browser -I use Firefox- it's not a fractal explorer, it's not a space traveller . It's my own exploration of different artistic fields and styles. I've been posting few fractals lately, quite the contrary of what usually happens after we follow a course on fractals (like I did last month). The reason is that fractals are not enough.
Does this sound a bit heretic? A tad irrreverent? Good! Because art has to be both, at least to a certain extent. Fractals are part of Art in general, a new addition to the History of Art, not an isolated terrain where general notions of design, composition and colour theory are left out. So I'm trying my hand with traditional drawing and painting, photomanipulations and some conceptual design.
By the way (shameless self-promotion as the saying goes) The Wall and Me is now on sale as a print.
I'm trying hard to answer all messages and thank the deviants who fave my pieces and/or add me to their friends list. I'm alw...

News from Toledo

=ersi — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:44:56 PDT

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My Explorer

=ersi — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:24:01 PDT

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wesurvived

is a dA "club for survivors of physical and sexual violence... a club for inspiration, for support and for information."
I am fortunate enough to never have suffered either kind of violence but I know people who have, I know the torture they have to live with even after the actual violence has stopped. I am watching the Club because I'd like to help in any way I can.
In this case, it's quite simple. They are running a contest for a new ID, a stamp for the club and a CSS design. You can find detailed information in their journal: Customise Us contest - 2 weeks left! You don't need to know CSS coding to enter the contest, you make the design, they code it!

my explorer

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Not a mistake, my spelling is quite good . Issuu is a site I discovered just a couple of days ago thanks to laflaneuse's journal. You can publish your own books online, I've been through several and some of the presentations are gorgeous. Don't miss laflaneuse's photography publications, you'll find the link in her journal.
And here's mine: [link]
I enjoyed making it and I hope you enjoy viewing it!
[End of update]

Drop some flowers on the way

Today I had one of those lovely surprises dA treats us to all so often. magnusti78 did a beautiful feature in her journal where she included me. Thanks again, Satu! You'll find lovely fractals there, go have a look!
One of the fractals she is featuring is A Tree with Flowerdrops , a quite popular design with lots of faves. So I had this fantastic (???) idea and created a plz account with one of the flowers . Feel free to use it, in fact, I'll be delighted if you do: : iconflowerdropplz : without the spaces, naturally.

And the wonderful iram

The Photography subfolder in my Faves Gallery has been growing and growing lately. I was lucky enough to run into some excellent photogra...

The Wonderful iram and a Flowerdrop

=ersi — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:18:16 PDT

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Drop some flowers on the way

Polling in course

A short while ago I posted a poll concerning Lucyolla since she doesn't have a subscription and cannot run her own polls. It would be great if you answered, she is starting a whole new line of work and would love to know your opinion on the subject. You can read all about it in her journal: a question to those who watch me. Thank you for taking the time to look into this

And the wonderful iram

The Wonderful iram

=ersi — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:16:50 PDT

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And the wonderful iram

The Photography subfolder in my Faves Gallery has been growing and growing lately. I was lucky enough to run into some excellent photographers and they led me to others and still others yet. It was only yesterday that I ran into iram's gallery.
The first thing that caught my eye was a recent series of shots titled "Songs of infinite sounds". I was transfixed. A sweet, somewhat nostalgic tale reverberated in the distance, a sing-song little voice spoke of a mirror's dream of landscapes and washed-down tints. The exquisite work, from the fragmented subject to the masterful framing, spoke of a sensitive, outstanding artist, capable of blending traditional beauty with modern interpretations.
I literally sighed when I saw that, I breathed in the beauty, drenched my eyes in its elegance and went looking for more. There is indeed much more to see in her gallery, from precious photographs to arresting photomanipulations to beautiful paintings. I am featuring some of her works in this journal, I hope you fall in love too!

featuring: iram

Art Don't Come Easy - TAD nominee

=ersi — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:08:33 PDT

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Nominated for the Top Artists Directory

This morning I found out I am one of the ten fractal artists that have been nominated for the TAD's June "Top Artists Feature". I'm so pleased with the nomination and with being in the company of outstanding fractalists! This is going to be one tough choice.
You can find all the information in Monthly TAD Newsletter - Edit. IV June 2008. The best thing about it is that fractal art in general will get more exposure and we can all be grateful for that. Good luck to everyone!

Ftrng Mcdbrd

Hard to read? Well, I'm only responsible for the first part, a deliberately wicked abbreviation that stands for "Featuring". The rest is as is. Mcdbrd is one of those dA artists that surprise me with their consistently outstanding work and their very personal style.

He says his mental age is 4 (he does, you can see it on his userpage) but his artistic age must be around 400. He knows that much, he is that good. He says he admires Francis Bacon and you can easily appreciate Bacon't influence in his work -and Marc's (may I call you Marc?) personal interpretation of it. His gallery contains 458 pieces, don't worry, you can view them all without being bored for a single moment.

I visited his website ...

Little Faces Tell Big Tales

=ersi — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:22:49 PDT

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A white sheet of paper...

So innocent-looking, so pure... To some, it's the most inspiring thing in the world, a space of freedom where to paint, draw or write their souls out. To others, it's a terrifying emptyness that needs to be filled somehow, with something, sometime soon. The need to fill it is intimate and overpowering, the terror can be paralyzing.

I've gone through both experiences, especially the second. I open my sketchbook and start drawing, staining, scribbling, knowing I'm going somewhere and that I'll get there without having to plan the journey or foresee the outcome. Or I stand staring in awe at the empty whiteness, the sheet of paper that tempts and tantalizes my need for expression even as it seems to point a gun at me and challenge me: "Touch me if you dare! See if you can come up with anything as beautiful as I am now."

Because I must admit that staining that pure white sheet with paint or ink can almost feel like sacrilege, a profanation of chaste territory. Maybe this is the reason why I admire pale images, watercolours that barely caress the surface of the paper, drawings that seem to whisper to it rather than make provocative statements on its pure surface. And yet...

Whispers can be terribly provocative too. Audacious, irreverent, unexpectedly crude.

..and the beauty of paleness

Some time ago, while browsing MySpace, I came upon the work of an exquisite artist from Japan. I was instantly drawn to his creations, delicate like cherry blossoms and sometimes painful like Samurai swords. The cutting edge of poetic, apparently innocent watercolours.

Very recently I discovered he also has a gallery in dA and I decided to feature him. Meet koharutie and his creations, that he defines as "emotional watercolour drawings". Emotional they are, like bashful brush-strokes all too conscious of the pain they may inflict on the pure white paper if they go wrong. They treat it with care, staining not an inch too much, not a line too many....

Photography Feature

=ersi — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:52:38 PDT

Features taken from my Photography Collection I hope you enjoy them.

Never late for an update

=ersi — Sun, 18 May 2008 03:07:38 PDT

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Under the sun...

It's Sunday, so I'm grabbing the opportunity to pimp Moonbeam's latest journal: Lend a Hand . It's about the massive destructions in Myanmar and the Chinese Province of Sichuan and what we can do to help a little. Please read the journal and see if you can answer the call.

...and within dA

There's been a small debate about dA's artistic standards lately. Suggestions to limit full use of the site to artists who have proved their quality, own paid subscriptions, maintain a certain level of participation, etc. I feel strongly enough about this issue to write a few words on it.
The world has never been a just, unbiased place. Social injustice and inequality only became a real issue after the fall of the Old Regime in Europe and the French and American Revolutions. And even after that, Equality exists more on paper than in real life. Our society proclaims itself as Democratic, offering equal opportunities to everyone, but basically promotes the stronger and the wealthier. I'm not saying anything new here, just making a small recap before stating my views on art, artists and dA.
The site gets thousands of new members every day, young members mostly. An avalanche of people who consider themselves artists, aspiring artists or simply art lovers. They open thousands of new galleries, upload tons of new creations and start interacting with other members... or not. Their art may be meaningful and admirable or senseless and without foundation. Do they all belong here?
Yes. I firmly believe they do. This is an open site, open to everyone, open-minded, open-ended. It's not a private company that will only hire Ivy League gratuates and will only support benefit-increasing policies. It's not an exclusive club that restricts membership to outstanding social (see: artistic) figures. It's a Democracy in its own way. No one stays out, unless they break the basic rules of respect for the community.
It has been argued that really good artists have trouble getting attention because of all the "static" out there. That static, the young, chaotic and inexperienced, are like the less prominent members of our society, who should enjoy the same priviledges and opportunities as the more prominent, according to all modern constitutions and bills of rights. Let's not claim for deviantART the clannish, snobbish standards that do prevail out there in spite of our laws, civil and moral. The outstanding artists here do enjoy huge popularity, at least most of them do. If my art is not in the spotlight, maybe I should ask myself if it deserves to be there. Study my discipline so I can improve it. Work harder. And if my art is overlooked because of the overpowering presence of less artistic members... they are welco...

Devious Journal Entry

=ersi — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:44:23 PDT

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Sharing some thoughts with you

I'm not much in dA lately and I'm not doing many fractals either. I finally subscribed to Janet Parke's "Working with UltraFractal" course beginning in May and I'm looking forward to it. I find myself in a stalemate with fractals. On a spur, I could have deleted at least a third of my submissions till now. Some caring and appreciative comments and notes from other fellow deviants made me change my mind. But I do need to re-position myself in relation to fractals. Beautiful and gorgeously decorative as they can be, this is not the side of fractal creation that attracted me to them. To me, they're a form of abstract art, a powerful instrument to create conceptual pieces. Definitely not the most popular aspect of them. I hope Janet's classes will help me find the way to where I need to go. In the meantime, I will be producing few fractals, if any. I may upload more manips or even traditional paintings and drawings. I'm searching within myself and through different media to find... what? Something I need to say that I'm not aware of yet... a more defined style... new techniques... A combination of all the above probably.
Thank you for your interest in my work, be it what it may, and for your precious support.

The TV interview

I know some of you remember that interview for TV2, the 2nd Channel of the Spanish National Television. It was three months ago, on 15 January, and it was released on the 20th of February. Things went slowly because we had some difficulties converting the original DVD into video and then the Channel was slow releasing the necessary authorization for me to post it. Now it's finally done! You can see it on YouTube or my Spanish blog and here are both links:
Fractal Art on YouTube --- LineaFractal on Blogger
I really want to thank the deviants who didn't forget about the interview and contacted me to ask about it. Your interest honours me and warms my heart.

the drama of light

Light is everything of course, without it we would be blind. Without it we simply wouldn't be. It's so natural and fundamental we usually don't even think about it. It was a major actor in the Baroque and the subject of the Impressionists, whatever theme they depicted in their paintings. Some artists see the possibilities in light and paint with it their very special vision. I recently discovered one such artist in dA -not the only one obviously- and decided to feature his works. If you walk through his gallery you will find yourselves cloaked by a subtle, dim light that instead of obscuring things it brings out unexpected qualities in them. A drama reveale...

The TV video, babies!

=ersi — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:50:54 PDT

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The Community Choice
Celebrate the Earth Contest

At long last

I know some of you remember that interview for TV2, the 2nd Channel of the Spanish National Television. It was three months ago, on 15 January, and it was released on the 20th of February. Things went slowly because we had some difficulties converting the original DVD into video and then the Channel was slow releasing the necessary authorization for me to post it. Now it's finally done! You can see it on YouTube or my Spanish blog and here are both links:
Fractal Art on YouTube --- LineaFractal on Blogger
Also today is my birthday and it was a lovely surpirse for the occasion .
I really want to thank the deviants who didn't forget about the interview and contacted me to ask about it. Your interest honours me and warms my heart.

the drama of light

featuring: Alcove