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

Park Vitkov


The horse that carries the blinded Hussite, my favorite Prague landmark.

Monday, April 12, 2010

24 hours Vienna


Wish I could remember what this cafe was called. We ordered yogurt, coffee and soft boiled eggs, and the old-men waiters wore suits. The furniture was shabby chic, the kitchen vintage, and the clientele puffed away on cigarettes and read newspapers in various languages.

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

Biking in Touzimsko (photos)

I've found my film camera again, after a dull winter in Casio-land. This was our trip last weekend.






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

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Mere and the Moss


Kingdom Falls, Maine, April 2009