I Spy With My Little Eye,... Diversity and Detail

Hello all!

It's been a while since I last posted. Been busy, restless, excited, hyper active, stressed out, ... all of it at the same time! Now that I am back to my senses and I am a bit calmer, I am back in the blog land and ready to go.

I have taken these pictures over the last few months; some in Brixton, some in central, and some in East London. As I have mentioned before, I like to look for detail and for the unusual. Those things inspire me, calm me down and I am at peace with myself when I notice the small, the strange and inevitably, the beautiful.

These are a few things that caught my eye along the way. They are a bit random, just how I feel at the moment. The pictures have no narrative, they are just things that got my imagination going. Make of them what you will, they are open to interpretation. In my mind, they all tell, not one story, but many. Hope you enjoy them (click on the picture to enlarge the image):

I love crockery. If I could, I'd be buying it every day, all the time, all the time. You can never have enough saucers, I say (you guessed it, I have many). This one took my fancy. I was in half a mind to thief it, but thought better of it. Not my style.

Beautiful hands of the most beautiful friend. Her nails are always painted in bright colours. However, she has just started a massaging course, so her nails have to be clean, sans nail varnish. She feels naked without at least toes covered in a funky colour. I agree with her. You won't catch me dead without my red nail varnish (in particular on my toes). Never!!!
 

I don't have much to add to this picture, apart from,... I love buttons. I am not obsessed by them, I just like a good button.

This picture was taken in Brixton market. Nothing special about it, I just love the colours and the exposition. I am not a photographer, but I do take a good picture from time to time, if I may say so myself.
 

Aloe Vera - very good for your skin and wounds. You can get it fresh in our market.
 

This is what was in my shopping basket one Saturday afternoon. Everything a girl needs: a new bright green jumper, aubergines, red peppers, old, Queen tin box and of course, a scary Barbie. To be honest, I have a problem with Barbies from a political and feminist point of view, but I had to have this one. She is a red head like me, a bit tattered and not at her best. I must have been feeling like her that day since I took her home. I am in two minds of starting a collection of demented Barbies, placed all around the house. Well, they are just ornamental, no?

On a VERY different note, here is a picture of a shop in Brixton. The legendary RUN DMC. You can't pass by this shop and not smile (in a sombre kind of way). 
 

And as Monty Python says, "And now, for something completely different". 

This is my favourite piece of art ever made (that includes poetry, painting, dance, theatre, film, visual art,... anything). It is The Kiss by Rodin. I have seen it many, many times and I am still taken by it like I was the first time I saw it. Tate Modern in London exhibits it in very random, unexpected and I think, wonderful ways. I once saw it right by the entrance of the Book Shop in the gallery. How wrong to keep a piece like this in such a place and yet, how very, very appropriate. I can elaborate on this and write a whole essay, but I'll leave you to make up your own mind. I think a random place is perfect. Time and time again, I am reminded that a piece of art is so dependant on the the context of where it is performed or shown. The two cannot separated. The context is everything. (When I took this picture it was sitting in a room of its own, on the second or third floor, I can't remember. Again, the piece became something else. Definitely more intimate). 

So, this is how I have been feeling like since I last posted. Random, excited, tender, excitable, high, low. One thing is for sure, i never forgot to look for the extraordinary in things, places and people. 

How have you been since we last talked? I hope you have been inspired, moved, kissed, hugged or touched in a kind way.

Have a fab rest of the week.

Red xx