early summer - goodbye house

I said farewell to a family house up north, this early summer. It was time to do so and I feel good about it, a house shouldn't be empty too long.

Somehow the memories from this place are kept under the soles of my feet. Like how it feels to walk barefoot on sharp gravel. Or to walk on soft moss. Or the floor boards on the attic.

It's the place where I learned to pick flowers, and how to write my first letters and other important stuff. I came up with the names for new calves every summer (always sunny) and sang for the cows when they were milked because grandmother said they did so much better from listening to music and I wanted to help and do my part of the job. Horses my grandfather named himself, always Pekka (only one at the time).

No matching link, I choose
Myung Rye Kim ceramic gardens and more, because I miss clay work a while longer.

more early summer

Northern light, a few days after midsummer up north. Long lovely night with old friends, treasured memory to keep for darker times.

I haven't started studio work yet after summer, still doing other things. But not so long now.

Falling garden Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger and
Brain Forest

when summer began

A late night walk in June, by the sea near Kalix, up north.

I was lucky to meet the first taste of summer twice this year. First here in Göteborg and later around midsummer in the north. Surrounded by fresh lilacs for weeks and weeks, I left the finished ones here and met the budding up north. What richness.

I've missed the northern summer. Light, fragile, intense. And short and precious. But I don't miss the mosquitoes.

Claudio Tschopp (via Dear Ada, I think) for the rain deers.
Enjoy every minute of summer this weekend!

dance and music

So happy to see I'm not the only one taking a long summer break from blogging. Don't need to be afraid I missed too much. And happy to see so many back now. Much easier to read blogs when nights are dark.

Göteborg's biannual Dance and Theatre Festival is going on, there is so much to experience but I don't have much time. Glad I got a ticket in time, to see Bahok by choreographer Akram Khan, in the old opera theatre. It's really charming, all that velvet and gold, cosy.

Music by Nithin Sawhney, I love his music and his collaborations with many very different musicians. Watch videos here at his website.
There are quite a few on You Tube, look here
Enjoy!

looking back and ahead

This summer was fantastic. I can't say it was a relaxing vacation, but fantastic. It started like this, a train trip up north, end of June. Will show more, in portions.

Off to see how you are, I'm curious. Hope late summer is a good season for you too! Still feeling free, and at the same time eager to get started in new projects.

Newly found blog, via Dear Ada, added to favourites:
Stripes and dots
New blogger; welcome Priscilla Mouritzen! Pinchpots
Both will make the ceramic world wider.

time to start!

It's a little like New Year now, a time when everything starts over again. It really feels like summer holidays are over and time to start blogging very soon! Until that soon, two flyers for upcoming weekend.


Friday evening a four meters high fire sculpture by Nina Hole, a great Danish ceramic artist, will be uncovered at the Porcelain Festival in Lidköping, Sweden (where the last remaining Swedish porcelain factory, Rörstrand, was located). Wish I could be there, see it and meet her!

Behind the fire sculpture workshop is HDK and Fabriken LKPD, a newly started ambitious ceramic center, located in the former Rörstrand factory.



But I will be here and that will be fun too. We are organizing an outdoor Craft Fair for over fifty exhibitors. As part of my office job at KHVC. Not office as usual! Most welcome, those of you in town!

yesterday I was here

Back home again after some trips, north and west. Yesterday I was here, at "Brännö brygga", a legendary place on Brännö outside Göteborg, even with a song of it's own.

Last weeks I was busy with another blog, being a soccer mom pro in Blaine, Minnesota. No time to think of anything else than soccer games and keep the players cool and non thirsty in the heat. Very relaxing to be absorbed by something completely different than the usual. Extraordinary experience.

One more week of holidays left, a heat wave is parked over the city. I will try to take care of every minute. When it cools off I will sort photos and tell you more. Hope you are having a warm and sunny summer too, wherever you are.
And have fun!