Bac! Festival (Barcelona’s Contemporary Art Fest) – This Year Dedicated to Female Artists. I have been here a year and the amount of design and art activity has left me cold and  yearning for another city so I was happy to be invited to this. I have no review for it but here is how [...]

It was called Una Nita La Gloria.  I came up the metro into twilight in an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Barcelona and then down winding crisscrossing streets and up an overpass. South of Montjuic and west butting up against a railway yard lies the building, Gloria, home to the artist space known as [...]

How I went to a Mali culture and design expo and ended up befriending and creating a blog for an inspiring and charitable design co-op from Mali two days later in my apartment. Hugs all around.

I made a new friend from Mali here in Barcelona. Just around the corner from the church he has a store in bright yellow with: handmade watering cans of recycled tins plastic woven rugs in all sizes and colors a cloth patchwork map of Africa sewn on a pillowcase huge colorful straw baskets wire mobiles [...]

By December 1st, my boyfriend and I will have transplanted ourselves from Paris (me) and London (he) to a cozy 45 square meter flat in Barcelona.  I’ve had a tendency through the years to disclose my flights of fancy in ill-conceived rushes of enthusiasm only to later regret it. As we all know, sometimes visions [...]