Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Easter Záhořík
Marketa spent hours perfecting the art of scraping candle wax onto hard boiled eggs with a pin stuck into a pencil tip. By the end, I'd say she was a professional.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Collage at Christmas
My friend Nicole and I might hang some things at Muddum Gallery. This is the collage I made in December that I'll show the curator...we'll see how it goes
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
24 hours Vienna
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Olšanske Cemetery in December
My sister Katie came to visit after Christmas. Olšanske Hřbitov is Prague's largest cemetery, not far from where I live. (Someone else's pictures are here). Franz Kafka is buried in the Jewish section. Jan Palach (student martyr) is buried in the Christian section. It's a famous resting place, but it's fallen into disrepair, which only adds to the fun of a chilly, afternoon stroll with a camera in hand.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Biking through Roma villages in Touzimsko
We went on a bike ride yesterday through western Bohemia, from Tepla to Karlovy Vary (holy cow, like 40 miles!) stopped at a French Trappist Monestary for cookies and mustard and biked through little villages without even a pub to show for themselves. The region of Touzimsko is one of the poorest in CZ, we passed through several small towns with burned out houses, bricks crumbling, dogs barking, and little kids pushing even littler kids in strollers in the brisk spring air. Cars were propped on tree stumps, mid-fix, and toy lawnmowers and dirty diapers filled the drainage ditches. It was another world, and not an uncommon one in CZ or in Europe for that matter. The Roma are forever a controversy, a people who the EU wants to spend little money on helping, and a people who probably prefer their way of life anyway.
Fences, Roma and Europe via NY Times
All things Roma in CZ: Roma Radio
Fences, Roma and Europe via NY Times
All things Roma in CZ: Roma Radio
Thursday, April 1, 2010
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