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Ethiopia.
Konso region.
Chief Walda Dawit Kalla compound.
Isolated on a hill and surrounded by juniper forest, the compound of Chief Walda Dawit Kalla lies some 7km from Karat-Konso off the road towards Mecheke. It's a fascinating and atmospheric place, cluttered with venerable chiefly artefacts ranging from beer vats to furniture, and the chief himself is a gracious and welcoming host .
Our coffee table was littered with what look like clerical collars - used so's we could drink hot tea from handleless Ikea mugs!
Aside from being thrown off by the outrageous prices of this place, Wheeler's Antiques wasn't so bad. They had a lot of these neat mask things scattered throughout the store. but then again, for such a small crowded shop(two rooms) there seemed to be many employees constantly asking us if we needed help finding anything. That makes me feel very uncomfortable and unwelcome when I go to places like this.
I did another printmaking workshop. This time the guest artist was Clint Cline who teaches at the University of Colorado. He a master printmaker who specializes in Monotype prints. These are one of a kind prints done on a plexiglass plate with inks, oil pastels and even oil paints applied in layers to the surface as well as the use of tools to draw back in to the compostion. It is abstract by naure although more objective compositions and designs can also be done.
Clint was extremely generous with his attention to the student, his tools and equipment, and even his own supplies such as paper - no cheap commodity in the print room.
The pictures of my work were taken at the final critique. Unfortunately, the room we were in had three different types of lighting - tungsten, florescent and indirect sunlight. Any two of these together is a photographic color adjustment nightmare, but the three together is crap. I did the best I could with them but they ain't right. I'll bring them back out when I re-shot them in consistant light. I need to photograph a large backlog of various art works for portfolio purposes. So, I ought to get that done in about two or three years. so, keep your eye out for that. hehe.
Anyway, I really enjoyed the class and got some stuff out that I like fairly well. I hope to get back to the print room and do some more work soon.
St Nicholas, Little Saxham, Suffolk
Little Saxham is a handsome village, not far from the edge of the Ickworth estate. The church is set at the eastern end of the village where the main road from Bury forks, agricultural vehicles and 4x4s thundering suddenly around corners concealed by ancient yews, the view of the church itself spoilt somewhat by a rather exuberant use of street furnishings. And genealogists making their way here would be disappointed to discover that the southern side of Little Saxham churchyard was pretty well cleared of all its older gravestones by lawnmower enthusiasts in the 1960s. A few of the older headstones have been reset in a line to the south of the nave, with some good18th century ones near the porch. An old photograph inside the church shows this graveyard as it once was, an entrancing jumble of priceless ancient memorials. Rather hard to get a lawnmower between, however, and so they are now gone.
But the wide expanse of grass does, at least, offset Suffolk’s finest round tower, and perhaps England’s. There are historical reasons for others being at least as interesting, but are any as lovely? The bell-stage is Norman, and thus particularly worth a gaze, because so many of Suffolk's round towers had their bell stages rebuilt in later centuries. The Victorians did very little to it, and the outside body of the church itself is still broadly as it was on the eve of the Reformation. The Lucas chapel (more often referred to these days as the Crofts chapel) on the north side of the chancel was built in the 1530s, just before such things became theologically unacceptable.
You step through a doorway that is broadly contemporary with the tower top, and on your left are two rather remarkable archways. The first, on your left, is a low Norman arch, roughly the same size as the doorway you have just stepped through, but set barely a metre and a half off of the floor. This has been variously identified as a tomb recess, an aumbry, a safe for valuables and a doorway into a lost chapel. None of these seem right, and it seems more than likely that it is the old north doorway, possibly moved here in the 19th century, although to what purpose is a mystery. Probably, it was reconstructed simply to look like a tomb recess - the Victorians went in for that kind of thing. It may have been intended to echo something similar in the chancel.
Beside it is one of the most breathtakingly lovely tower arches in Suffolk, a tremendous thing in such a small church, perfectly beautiful, raising the eye heavenwards. The doorway above it recalls the one at Thorington, where the tower is also not dissimilar. Below the arch are panels of the rood screen, lions, squirrels and eagles facing each other off in the spandrels.
Beside the tower arch is the parish war memorial, with three names on it. Frederick Fisher was wounded at Ypres, and died of his wounds at home in Little Saxham in 1919. The other two on the memorial are brothers, George and William Sansom. George was killed at Neuve Chapelle in 1915, William on the Somme in 1916. The two brothers are also remembered on Frederick Fisher's headstone outside in a gloomy corner of the churchyard.
Turning eastwards, the quantity and quality of medieval woodwork is striking for such a humble building. It isn't hard to sort it out from the 19th century stuff, broadly speaking the newer benches are on the south side. Of the medieval bench ends, a lady at a prayer-desk may well be part of an Annunciation, a dragon biting its tail looks rather heraldic, and what is probably a lion looks not unlike the cock-monster at Stowlangtoft.
Mortlock thought that the entrance to the rood stairs being six feet off the ground suggested that it had once been used to store valuables. This may be so, but I think it is far more likely that it is giving us evidence of a now-vanished wooden section of the stairs that led down into the aisle, as at nearby Denston.
The chancel is at once beautiful and plain. The communion rails were rescued from the abandoned church at Little Livermere, and were reset here. On the north side, the curious memorial with its heraldic devices is the blocked up entrance to the Lucas chapel, now the vestry. The shields come from the tomb of Sir Thomas Fitzlucas, which once stood inside.
The entrance to the vestry is from the east end of the north aisle. It is kept locked. However, it is worth contacting the keyholder listed on the door, because, from its days as the Lucas chapel, it still contains the rather magnificent tomb of William, first Baron Crofts, in all its 1670s Restoration glory.
more clutter - but in my defense, I'm working on several projects simultaneously right now, so *most* of the clutter here is in-use-being-productive clutter
Ethiopia.
Konso region.
Chief Walda Dawit Kalla compound.
Isolated on a hill and surrounded by juniper forest, the compound of Chief Walda Dawit Kalla lies some 7km from Karat-Konso off the road towards Mecheke. It's a fascinating and atmospheric place, cluttered with venerable chiefly artefacts ranging from beer vats to furniture, and the chief himself is a gracious and welcoming host .
I didn't take a "before" image, because the whole thing was depressing. But here's the "after" image: After tossing 4 boxes & 6 bags in the garbage, and donating 2 boxes & 4 bags & 1 body form to the thrift store.
Sony NEX-5N w/ 1982 Vivitar Series 1, 70-210 zoom (Tokina.) No editing. Beautiful detail and color from this lens.
Spent the day with Amy and Zac eating Chinese food, moving a sofa, playing Sims, and having a good time. Then I came home at 10 to a pile of school clutter. Save me!
The clutter in our garage. It keeps me from being able to fit my truck where it belongs. How about the clutter in my PDA? In my mind? What doesn't fit because of that clutter? What belongs in those places, but the clutter is keeping it out? Day fifteen for Project 365
For BoopsieDaisy and all the other "clutter-challenged" pack rats out there....and this is my dresser on a good day
August 2014 Photo Challenge
I found this photo of the clean dishes stacked on my dining room table rather interesting-all the shapes & colours-so I thought I would use it to kick off this month's challenge. Good luck, Brian!
This week I'm working on the master closet for the Clutter Diet. www.clutterdiet.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=1094