Finally, after almost a year with a phone with no camera. Now I have one with a camera, and it is just perfect. So I’m back to some old quiet moments of observation, capturing and spontaneity. I spent long hours in Hyde park this week-end, I also went to see the The Art of Lee Miller exhibit at the V&A museum. Her work has a strange humor, I found some of it pretty ironic. Also her fashion photography eye comes across in her photo journalistic and portrait work which I found very unique. What I like the most is that at a first glance her work reads as simple, but the moment you take a second look; it hits you with a strange combination of wittiness and drama.
October 22nd, 2007
After a year-long transition I relocated to London last monday, I’m finally here. This is the second long term commitment with a country where I wasn’t born. The first one occurred when I moved to the US to attend grad school. Sometimes it fells like yesterday, but six years is a long time. The experiences I had in Los Angeles have expanded my view about life, design and myself, transforming my thinking and behavior in surprising and positive ways. I am thankful to the people I met, professors, colleagues, clients, students, whom have influenced who I am now.
During those six years I got up surrounded by the brightest light I’ve ever seen, hike in Griffith Park and walk by the beach. Just a week before I left L.A. I hosted a round table at the LA PSFK conference on “LA culture”, which was the perfect way to look back and reflect upon LA’s diversity, complexity, beauty and of course to say hasta luego.
October 14th, 2007