Simply breathtaking this little side street, and what a wonderful surprise to find such artwork displayed on a wall, outside.
How do you like your street art? Bright and flashy or classic like in the above photo?
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
Michelangelo
“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.” Henry Rollins
This is my response to the weekly travel theme: stone.
I’ve re-published this photo as I’m up to my ears with a little side project. I’ll be back in full blogging force by early next week.
Until next time …
Sassari is the second-largest city in Sardinia, and to us small town mountain dwellers who venture here on such brief occasions, it’s called the big city or the big smoke. I enjoy getting lost in the streets of Sassari, there are beautiful surprises around every corner from classical art to street art and must-see energetic festivals that will leave you gasping for more. Follow me, on yet, another photographic voyage of this striking city.
When I need to aimlessly wander ancient cobblestone streets, I come here to gaze at local art and sip an apertivo.
I’m not sure what possessed me to climb a ladder and clean our ceiling in 37 degree heat. It’s the first time in six years that I’ve cleaned the ceiling, and it took me two and a half hours. It’s a beautiful masterpiece made from chestnut and took my husband one month to complete. He’s it’s a beautiful masterpiece of patience, nature and abstractness.
I think it can wait another six years before I clean it again! 😉
This is my response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece. Just click the link to join in on the fun.
What’s a masterpiece to you?
My Sardinian Mom is my husbands second cousin, her passion is paint and colour. Her house is a museum of beautiful colourful paintings, each one over the years hung on every wall space available.
She paints landscapes, women and children, fruit and vegetables. She paints on glass, canvas, leather and cotton. Her art is fantastic and truly Sardinian.
Her name is Maria Caterina Satta. She is an extremely humble person who has painted for over sixty years. In the last two years she has finally opened her art for the world to see.
Art critic Andrea Diprè and his team flew to Sardinia late last year to film a fifteen minute segment for his popular show on Italian TV.
Check it out for yourself.
The YouTube clip is in Italian. But you get to see her art!
What do you think?
I’d like to introduce you to another wicked woman blogger, she is why I began to blog. I’ve known her for many years and we have drunk down many a Guinness together even leaving the Guinness draft tap running one busy night, slinging pints of Ireland’s finest at waiting patrons. We’ve also got our complete-stellar funk-out, dancing to the Smoothies, where only the Lions dare roam. Those were the times, sometimes hard, sometimes good. Life took it’s turn down a windy road and there were a few years of distance. Fastforward to the phenom of Facebook and we reunite through the wonderous virtual pages of Facebook. Her life blossoming like no other, our past behind us and the future ahead we salute each other to good health and happiness.
Around Christmastime 2010 a surprise arrived in the mail. Now I’m not going to tell you everything that was in this beautiful gift, but know it was the most sentimental surprise someone could find.
Who? Who?
http://www.lepetitreve.ca/ Where you can find everyday musings, recipes, rants, diaper changes and eco-friendly stuff.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/lepetitreve And these are the things that she makes with her hands. Yup, wow! So cute, so eco-friendly, so fitting in todays crazy society, it’s pure and delicious. Click.
In her words …
My Sardinian Life 