eight years today.
thank you for loving me and for being my husband, friend, lover.
i love you more than mere words can express, my puzzle piece.
mission windows and reflections
on tuesday, i had plans to meet my exceedingly lovely friend sarah (who is a fashion-loving creative gal, a former resident of brooklyn, and is also a recent transplant to SF!) at the st. francis for milkshakes and conversation. i left my house and took the 33 muni bus from my 'hood on the hill to the deep recesses of the mission, and arrived a half hour early. while waiting, i took some photographs of the windows and reflections around me.
san francisco is a ridiculously colorful city. i am delighted by the lovely colors and textures that abound here. san francisco's color is on people, on buildings, as well as the land,sea and sky around the whole of the bay. (oh, those lovely old multi-colored victorians!)
new york was wonderful but very grey. the color was inside her people, their creativity, their bustling energy, not so much her buildings.
slowly, cautiously, my eyes and heart are opening to this place... which at first seemed so foreign, so strange, so different than my beloved NYC.
i'm starting to like it here.
there, i've admitted it!
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i plan on taking my camera out for more adventures. she likes it.
personal. obsessions.
i've been thinking a lot lately about personal visual obsessions.
sometimes, when one opens their eyes to certain things (like colors, shapes, motifs, and the like), suddenly it seems as if the object of our obsession is everywhere.
one of my obsessions is the juxtaposition of orange and green.
sometimes i feel like i am a little insane, being so obsessed with color! i often wonder if i seem freakish with my obsessions and experimentalism in this realm, dashing colors together with what must seem like abandon!
i keep falling in love with how colors look next to one another. i love to play.
often, i'll just be sitting there, flipping through a magazine, watching tv, walking down the street, or making art (in the form of my sewing, knitting, whatever) and suddenly, i start to fixate and meditate/daydream about/on certain colors and combinations and i think about ways to experiment and test my color ideas.
lately, i've been thinking a lot about grey and orange, too! i love the idea of such a contrast: the blindingly bright against the neutral, and the disparity in the values.
at the moment, i'm also rather entranced by textures, or shapes, or patterns, such as:
-large bleach spots on denim
-felted wool
-the simplicity of smooth worsted wool knitted in stockinette, so all fashioning marks are seen (in knitwear), or really, in any stitch pattern.
-walnut or teak wood (that warm, medium tone of wood), but really any wood
-the glossiness of glass or sheen of some ceramic glazes
-the exotic, luxurious, varied feel and look of snakeskin
-the nubbly, flat look of needlepoint wool on needlepoint pillows
-the crinkly stiffness of linen
-circles
-patchwork anything. anything in a tiled format, or anything pieced together from somewhat disparate parts.
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what colors or textures are you obsessed with?
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