Les Maitres du Desordre

 By chance I popped into the musee Branly and they were playing my song...

 Les Maitres du Desordre is on till 29 July.

 If you're messy DON'T MISS IT!

It will validate you in ways you never imagined.

 I felt instantly at home.

Basquiat I LOVE U!

 Regarde:

There are artists messier than I am.

Who knew?

 Voila!

 The exhibit of course is very orderly.

It's French.

 Amazing to see mess displayed this way.

 Sometimes messiness entraps you and doesn't feel so creative.

Have you ever wasted oodles of time looking for vital papers that were right in front of you?

 I've shown my messy studio many times.

 Somehow it doesn't look so bad..?

 Though nothing like YSL's perfect order.

 I loved the explanations for disorder in the exhibit.

'Order does not exist without ambivalence. All order including the divine order, is fundamentally flawed'.

Hmmm...

 Sometimes there can be happy disorder!

 I was quite orderly for my dinner party last week - a miracle really...

The French are very orderly (like French Girl). Is that why I'm so attracted to them?

I'm having two very disorderly days.

I catch AirFrance 'home' today, but it doesn't feel so much like home anymore.

Paris has become so comfortable. 

Been bawling for 2 days straight without knowing why :(

Off to take an orderly swim. Then come back and make order of my disorder before takeoff.

Wish me luck!

My Studio 2011

WELCOME! You're invited in to my studio 2011

Not that much different from my studio 2010 is it?

OK maybe it is.

Amazing how many ways you can throw stuff up in the air and it comes down in different patterns like pickup sticks.

These macarons are only 3 months old.

I use a pastry box to reflect the light - another Eureka moment.

Do you believe if you surround yourself with the things you love, eventually they'll sink into your brain by osmosis? I do.

I love Morandi, Wayne Thiebaud, Japanese prints, and Fr pastry.

The studio exhibit is constantly changing.

Here is a pile of Parisian gifts-with-purchase I send out with your watercolors.

 What BEAR is reading these days.

BONJOUR STUDIO 2011!

Pastry Meditation...

Religieuse Violette, watercolor, 9" x 11"
I thought I was posting on the lovely, orderly way Parisian patissiers...
Line up their creations...

Like soldiers standing to attention in perfect rows.
Then I had one of those Eureka! moments. Is it possible my obsession with French pastry has everything to do with a desperate need for order and nothing to do with chocolate or whipped cream?

These perfect disks lined up with such precision...

Labeled and priced, measured centimeters apart, are the exact opposite of my chaotic studio...

I fight a losing battle with entropy daily,

Yet the vision of glossy tartes...

Is like a Zen meditation...

Do I start an ashram in Paris and spread the joie?

Should I go to pastry school?Would you like a peek at my studio 2011 to see if there's been any improvement?

Do tell PBers.
BONJOUR PASTRY MEDIATATION!

Bed Side Story

I wish this was my bedroom...
I really wish I was in Bali with Julia...
Riding a bicycle...

Enroute to a date with Javier Bardem - miam, miam

But watching EAT PRAY LOVE in bed is not a bad alternative...

And I can paint onsite here in bed as well!

Jane in New Zealand of Sparrow Chatter kindly sent me her amazing picture of tarts of local cafe La Cloche...

It's on my desktop where I can gaze at it endlessly...

Next project is to paint these lovely tartes - wish me luck.

If I want a taste of Paris (my laptop is on the floor by my bed) I can visit with Inez de la Fressange

Her video jaunts around Paris are good for your accent and a delightful vicarious adventure. Do VISIT!

When your mattress is on the floor, you get a different perspective and long to re-arrange your walls etc. I did move things a bit yesterday :)

THANKS SO MUCH! for all your well wishes and curative suggestions.

I'm making a long to-do list once I'm able to tackle yoga and tai chi etc.

I heard from Rivera, one of the EMT guys at Station:

'Carol, I hope you are doing better than when I first found you! I can tell you first hand when I saw her drawings I was absolutely astounded at how spot on they were! I am sorry I have not gotten around to this sooner, but having you as a patient was absolutely the highlight of my day! One of the best patients I ever had. I actually printed out the sketch and I am trying to show everyone I know at every opportunity!You are extremely talented and I wish you the best. I forget how many readers you told me you have... but add one more in me!'

What an adventure this had turned out to be! I'm off to the Doc shortly to find out what's what with my left leg.

BONJOUR BED SIDE STORY!