3. The Squatters Residency: traces of the past and schooling in the Annexe

​The layers throughout this place are fodder for the imagination.  I’ve been finding faces and creatures in the torn wallpaper and peeling paint and in the accumulation and reduction of stuff.  So many things have been pulled off the walls here leaving their ghost prints behind. Flicking the books here, I’ve left open a page on the photographic work of Sophie Ristelhueber to think more on it.  Traces of the past mix with her present where in one series she adds images of children on vacations in the 1950’s into the scenes of empty and abandoned homes.
 
My second little painting – another interior started today has been left till tomorrow morning’s light check-in again.  Talking with my artist cousin Kiata on the phone - we talk about working towards a show together – likely an interior themed exhibition.  She is fabulous so I am excited.
 
My youngest teen with his friend in tow schooled today from The Annexe next door, which meant a lot of ducking back and forth.  Some local friends popped in – curious of the old cottage and the work I am doing here, so a tour was on the cards. My Ugg boots were kindly dropped off by my partner and without his hotness remaining, I’ll be turning the electric blanket on tonight.