Abilementa,Vicenza Italia

Abilementa,Vicenza Italia

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness....

Autumn has been a glorious experience - unseasonally warm sunny days with roast chestnuts freshly roasted in the piazzas and pumpkin risotto for starters ,then fruit-filled pinza and torta di castagna .The fruits of the season-persimmons and pomegranates mingle in markets with porcini mushrooms and  pumpkins,even the flowers are fried and eaten as delicacies.To view these textural tapestries in a daily open-air market is a delight ..


Meanwhile another visual feast-the last days of the Venice Art Biennale. Above a textile installation by Egyptian-Lebanese-born Lara Baladi at right , always something inspirational with more work that ever having textiles as a focal point. Renata Pompas ,a fellow member of Textere which is the education arm of the European Textile  Network-ETN writes about this trend..
Link-http://www.texere.unet.dk/texere%20newsletter%20autumn%202011.2.pdf