“Back in the land of the living”, so said Joanna on hearing that I’d just finished a marathon translation. My head is only just starting to clear. Being stuck behind the computer means that my displacement activity consists in researching other artists and also going through my photos.
The one here, which is not a great photo, actually reminds me of my own work. I took it in 2010 in Beijing. I had dismissed it as a rubbish photo but am now resurrecting it as research. I like the dark colours and the repeated structural forms as well as the huge empty space through the centre.
Woohoo – in the Top Ten blogs for the first time since I started blogging. And in such good company too.
I’ve just bought a new lens for my camera so have been refreshing my very rusty knowledge of speed and aperture settings. Sometimes I just get fed up and put them back to auto.
I am stuck behind the computer again for the next few days doing a big and rather difficult translation job. A colleague of mine who I’d only ever met virtually and don’t even know what he looked like has just passed away. Pneumonia complicated by Parkinsons. I didn’t really know him but he was a good friend to me at one point in my life and also passed on a lot of work, which though I often didn’t really want to do it, has been good for the mortgage repayments. His last gesture, which was to pass on a client was very generous of him. He could have just told the client to put the work out to tender.
I just realise I had to change some of the tenses in the above paragraph to reflect the fact that he has gone.
