Grande dame.

This weekend, my age notched up to 25! Saturday, sushi with my family:

(teaching my cousin’s little girl how to use chopsticks)

We went to Roast, next to Borough Market, for the most sensational Sunday roast! (I’ve never seen a Yorkshire pudding look like a huge balloon before)

High tea at Langham’s Hotel, what a treat. Scones and tea!

Dinner at a Moroccan joint, with presents-opening. Wow, I was overwhelmed!

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my favorite picture from last night:

my cousin the banana.

yesterday was a pumpkin day.

first i went to my aunt’s 3rd grade classroom and helped with their pumpkin project: what cuties!

then I carved pumpkins with my mother and watched Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

more halloween to come… I love this time of year!

finally fall

Un p’tit weekend à Lille

My mother invited me to Lille for the weekend, as a pre-birthday present. Quel surprise!

lemons.

Today I offer you this, by Manet:

I feel cooped up today at home, studying and being ill (the first pangs of autumn = getting a cold). Being inside made me think of domestic paintings…

Bizarro.

What is this all about? :

I happened to flick through this issue today (while invigilating at a Saatchi exhibition – very boring work, like watching paint dry). This is blowing my mind. A 13-year old is the new fashion darling of the world and gets FREE designer clothes. Crazy.

recently finished decorating my art studio space in my father’s house

i love all my supplies perfectly organized in the open closet, my inspiration wall behind my large desk, and the fun lantern i made for the ceiling light.

now on to the creating!

Frieze.

Went to Frieze Art Fair today. It’s the biggest, most hoity-toity contemporary art fair in London. Like a British Art Basel. Not as corporate as I would have thought, but nothing inspired me, or moved me. Baldessari’s art installation, Beethoven was funny:

and the work of my friend, Sarnath Bannerjee, was great. Otherwise, two hours was enough. Afterwards, you feel totally saturated and your sense are raped. You feel a bit exposed afterwards:

And that was my first Frieze.