Mountains: A Collection

I'm a lover of mountains! Whenever I'm away from them, I really miss them. I think it has to be because we grew up surrounded by them. It has always been something that the many years in New York and now in Miami without a mountain in sight has made me love them even more. So, the other day that I took a road trip to a nearby city, I decided to 'collect' them, each and everyone of them. I took pictures galore and these are a few of my favorites.

Add the amazing clouds and sky and you couldn't have a better collection! I really need to do something with these pictures, I'm thinking something along the lines of covering a wall with them all or enlarging one into an amazing (too much? too crazy?) wallpaper...? I will definitely let you know what comes up, but do share ideas if any come to mind.

Have a beautiful day!
Giannina.

I love tiles!

I started a collection of photos, they contain a moment in time where I experienced some sort of a big load of nostalgia mixed with inspiration (the patterns and colors are out of this world!!!) and of course a lot of wonderment. Why aren't houses and places made this way anymore?

For me it has always been in my city, Cali that I encounter the most of this tiles; old houses (the "good" ones) used to be the ones filled with beautiful colors! I really don't understand when all this beauty faded away and people thought it was ok to just vanish them. In the mean I'll keep looking for more of them. Did I manage to take you back to your memories of these sweet places?

Have a great weekend! And a happy friday!

Giannina. 

The Art of Collections

Recently I visited the Sir John Soane's Museum in London. For some strange reason, even though I lived there for some time, it never crossed my path. Oh, what a place!! How perfectly amazing it felt to be there!!

Since then I've been wondering about the reasons people collect and the sort of things they decide to amass. My father who could be the perfect study case, started collecting pocket knives at the age of 8, since then he has moved to pens, fly fishing rods to beads just to name a few. He has been such an avid collector throughout his life, that now his apartment is starting to look a bit like a 'wunderkammer.' A very modern one!

The collecting vein has been implanted perfectly in my oldest son who now has more erasers than he will ever need, and so many Lego mini figures that they've magically started to appear in every corner of my house.

There is a wonderful book that I highly recommend by Philipp Blom called To Have and to Hold, which I read many years ago when I was writing my thesis -this subject matter, (collecting and the reasons behind it) is one that I still find fascinating, and a beautifully done book by Lisa Congdon, A Collection a Day.

My father's beads and pliers

My son's LEGO mini figures

My husband's card holders and his brother's frogs

"Saving the world, or a world, preserving history or genius, saintliness or innocence, touching something beyond our random existence is a labour of love, a constant ritual, one face of the desire to be authentic, to be human."  Philipp Blom

Happy collecting!
Giova