A bit of a metaphor!
Greetings from La Fragua artists residency @ Balalcar Monastery, near Cordoba, Spain. 2015. outside the main studio I've been here 6 weeks now, just two weeks left. Artists come and go. The average stay is two months. It's sad sometimes to say goodbye, but our new arrivals are always interesting. Nanao is from Japan. Gio from Brazil. Here's what happened on Sunday ! Gio from Brazil. Yesterday, 3 of the new artists came with me to find a huge lake (the Embalse de La Serena) across the border in the province of Extramadura. They have bikes to cycle to the studio from their house in the village. I'm the only artist living in the convent, the only one with a car. So, we would have a picnic and they could swim, that was the idea, my idea actually. Fabulous they said in Portugese, German, Italian and Japanese. We left at 3pm. Soon, we got extremely lost. The road was straight and empty and beautiful for almost 30kms. Finally we found o