tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3568666624143492832024-03-05T15:36:00.708+00:00Katherine LeedaleKatherine Leedalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702875144622811508noreply@blogger.comBlogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356866662414349283.post-53759103103083927962019-09-02T12:49:00.001+01:002019-09-02T12:49:30.245+01:00Itineraries<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's one year today since I left for a <a href="http://katherineleedale.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-bokaflo.html" target="_blank">book-making residency</a> at the <a href="http://skaftfell.is/" target="_blank">Skaftfell Center</a> in <a href="http://katherineleedale.blogspot.com/2018/10/pairings.html" target="_blank">Iceland</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I wrote and thought and made so much there and about it since. It was, in the closing words of my diary of the time, strange, hard, rich and rewarding. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here are some (nearly) wordless poems that I've only just reassembled. I've finally run out of things to say about that time and place (for now). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I'm in the middle of refreshing my <b><a href="http://www.katherineleedale.com/portraits/4585709312" target="_blank">portrait portfoli</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><b><a href="http://www.katherineleedale.com/portraits/4585709312" target="_blank">o</a></b> by shooting with some excellent humans - film-maker <b><a href="https://shootingpeople.org/cards/BenM" target="_blank">Ben Mourra</a></b> of <a href="http://www.screencult.com/" target="_blank"><b>Screencult</b></a> was the first brave volunteer to surrender himself to my lens. We played with the deep shadows and lovely window light in his live-work space and he generously gave me time to revisit some studio lighting mix-ups that I wanted to try. </span></span></div>
Katherine Leedalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702875144622811508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356866662414349283.post-16779371521780670322019-01-08T12:44:00.000+00:002019-01-08T12:44:06.130+00:00A bókaflóð<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">I wrote up some details of my own </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">bókaflóð*</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;"> on the <a href="http://skaftfell.is/call-for-applications-thematic-residencies-2019/?lang=en&lang=en" target="_blank"><b>Printing Matter</b></a> residency for the Centre for Fine Print Research's Book Arts Newsletter at the end of last year (see below for images and flipthroughs and <b><a href="https://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/pdf/newspdfs/121.pdf" target="_blank">click here</a> </b>for the full report). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">I'm now pleased to follow up the two finished volumes I made there with a zine-travelogue. Inspired by both the lacksadaisical tone of W. H. Auden's </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: small;"><b>Letters from Iceland</b> </i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">and by the Terribly Serious tomes penned by Victorian adventurers, I have gathered together the letters I wrote to six women (and to myself) as part of my work (and working-out) while in Iceland. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">*a bókaflóð is, literally, a 'book flood' and is the term used for the massive release of books that happens in Iceland at the beginning of every December. Books are often given as Christmas presents, a tradition dating back to the time when imported goods except for paper carried very high taxes.</span></div>
Katherine Leedalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702875144622811508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356866662414349283.post-53287483884605059612018-11-27T13:00:00.000+00:002018-11-27T15:01:11.269+00:00Wilma<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It's been nearly two months since I came back from the residency in Iceland, and not only have I only just started editing the photos I took there, I haven't in fact really been in much of a photographic mood at all - very unlike me. I reckon it's like diving, surface too fast and you'll get the bends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now I've made at least a tentative start, I thought I'd start sharing some of them here as I go and am starting with a portrait of artist <b><a href="http://www.wilmavissers.com/" target="_blank">Wilma Vissers</a> </b>in her Iceland studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Wilma was one of the women I shared a house with. The house had flaky mint-coloured woodwork, a collection of pebbles on a shelf, and groaned in the wind, and <a href="http://www.nathaliebrans.nl/" target="_blank"><b>Nathalie</b></a> and Wilma and I made a very happy home there for a short while. Wilma's practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and (as with all of us on the residency) book-making and I highly recommend you connect with her next time you're in Groningen.</span><br />
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Katherine Leedalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702875144622811508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356866662414349283.post-21792133866344532832018-10-15T14:17:00.001+01:002018-11-27T14:52:21.399+00:00Pa(i)rings<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Nearly three weeks after my return from Iceland, the experience is still sinking in. Percolating, so to speak. Like a good cup of coffee I hope that, when po(u)red, it'll be well balanced, rich, energising. Sorry, can't resist a cheesy metaphor. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Many of the things I made and thoughts I had were about pairings - here+there, left+right, now+then, words+pictures. My final book project contained a series of 'stereoscopes', paired photographs that claim to be more accurate than the sum of their parts. Interested in expanding and exploring the sandwiching of time and place implied by the multiple exposure photos <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BmQ4NXrgE0L/?taken-by=kleedale" target="_blank"><b>I've been making</b></a> on my phone, I ran a roll of film through a camera donated by a friend, both at home in London and at home in <span style="background-color: white;">Seyðisfjörður.</span> The resulting layers are further complicated by the film lab's...idiosyncractic...scanning system. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Last week I made some of these lovely glitchey panoramas that are helping me look at time. It's a technique I've tried before, whether <b><a href="http://katherineleedale.blogspot.com/2017/04/morocco-part-iv-multimedia-adventure.html" target="_blank">shared here</a></b> or <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfsqbkJnKZN/?taken-by=kleedale" target="_blank">elsewhere</a></b>. They are a quick offshoot of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bhb1Vjwh7eP/?taken-by=kleedale" target="_blank"><b>something still else</b></a> that's bubbling in the back of my hard drive. Who knows whether it'll ever come to fruition? It's not about the destination after all...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I love apps. I mean, I really <b>really</b> love them. I use them daily in my own work and I encourage photography workshop participants to explore them. Yes, I do know (in principle) how to work SLRs both D and otherwise (I used to shoot using the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_16_rule" target="_blank"><b>sunny-16 rule</b></a> on a Russian rangefinder with a wonky winding mechanism and long-dead light meter batteries) and I even put in my time in a colour darkroom while at college (*shudder* *so much darkness, it was a long winter*). My Lightroom workflow suits me just fine and if you really demanded it I could take out all your wrinkles in Photoshop (but I won't, on principle). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As a theatre and arts photographer I'm privileged to see many of these behind the scenes moments while photographing rehearsals or shows; this was different in that I was only photographing for myself and therefore could be a bit more experimental. I played a lot with long exposures, moving myself or keeping the camera static, with what happens when you put the camera out of focus on purpose, and even tried <b><a href="https://petapixel.com/2013/04/30/a-photographers-guide-to-freelensing-the-poor-mans-tilt-shift-lens/" target="_blank">freelensing</a></b> for the first time (conclusion: the effect is beautiful but when your subjects are also moving it's even more difficult!). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was also a wonderful sensation to have creativity happening behind you in the stalls as well as in front of you on the stage. The air in the room was almost crackling with it and we all shared gleeful smiles as we left for the sheer pleasure of making something all together. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thank you very much to both companies, the choreographer and most of all to the dancers for the opportunity - head to <b><a href="https://petapixel.com/2013/04/30/a-photographers-guide-to-freelensing-the-poor-mans-tilt-shift-lens/" target="_blank">The Place's website</a></b> and sign up to the mailing list to find out about more such classes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A few more of gorgeous<b> <a href="https://www.franziehmer.com/" target="_blank">Franzi</a>;</b> visual artist, tattooer and a warm and wonderful human. She tattoos at <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kinkpeckham/?hl=en" target="_blank">KInk</a></b> in Peckham or at<b> <a href="https://www.sydenhamink.com/" target="_blank">Sydenham Ink</a></b> and you can reach her through either of those places, on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/naga_tattooer/" target="_blank"><b>Instagram</b></a>, or on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/franziehmer.art" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She also recently <b><a href="https://instagram.com/p/Bdp_rjWg8E-/" target="_blank">appeared in an ad</a></b> for Rimmel London's new Ink Me range of stamps and temporary tattoos, doesn't she look glam!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The children printed off their images to take their art home. They also had the opportunity to further decorate the printouts; I liked the clash of the tactile, analogue world with that of the ephemeral, digital one - and the careful placement of these shiny stickers was so meticulously done!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Several months ago <a href="http://katherineleedale.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/youre-just-my-tin-type.html" target="_blank"><b>I posted about some 'tintypes'</b></a> I'd been making. This project continues to chug away quietly in the background - I'm finding that only specific sorts of faces work for these portraits, so I am only shooting them when I come across someone who gives me that 'Aha!' sensation. Writer <a href="https://app.hiive.co.uk/profile/864df320-d4ce-4fc4-8a7b-e31785dc270b/#/" target="_blank"><b>Catherine O'Shea</b></a>'s china-doll colouring somehow works perfectly even in black and white, while artist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/etr.hempsted/" target="_blank"><b>Ella Hempsted</b></a>'s Pre-Raphaelite hair gives the ideal frame for her face - I'll share these another time when the project feels like it's coming to some kind of fruition. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'd been following <b>Jordan J. Lloyd</b>'s <a href="http://dynamichrome.com/" target="_blank"><b>Dynamichrome</b></a> project online for ages; vintage images are digitally recoloured in astonishing detail, bringing the past vibrantly to life. As a fan, I attended the exhibition that launched the book <a href="https://unbound.com/books/paper-time-machine/" target="_blank"><b>The Paper Time Machine</b></a>, created with Wolfgang Wild of <a href="https://www.retronaut.com/" target="_blank"><b>Retronaut</b></a>. Imagine my surprise when, describing the event to my studiomate, she revealed that he was a childhood friend. I jumped at the chance to add Jordan's 'tintype' to the gallery and we met at the Barbican. This itself is a total layer cake of history and I couldn't resist bringing the 'real' camera along to try and capture some of those surfaces - medieval, Brutalist, contemporary - too. Check out the Dynamichrome project <a href="http://dynamichrome.com/" target="_blank"><b>online</b></a> or on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jordanjlloydhq/" target="_blank"><b>Instagram</b></a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paper-Time-Machine-Colouring-Past/dp/1783523735" target="_blank"><b>buy the book</b></a><span id="goog_1634117995"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1634117996"></span>! (<a href="http://dynamichrome.com/process/" target="_blank"><b>This video</b></a> is so worth watching for the jawdropping skills displayed).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In my last post, I shared <a href="http://katherineleedale.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/dan-ferguson.html" target="_blank"><b>a different portrait</b></a> of artist <b><a href="https://www.danferguson.co.uk/" target="_blank">Dan Ferguson</a></b>. I am lucky enough to know Dan through my friend Lisa, who shared his work with me via the magic of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kleedale" target="_blank"><b>Instagram</b></a>. Lately I'd been thinking about starting to collect art in a slightly more concentrated way than previously and thought that commissioning a small painting from an artist whose palette and subject I loved, and who I had a personal connection to, would be a good place to start. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Am I glad I did? You bet. Dan and I emailed a little about inspiration and subject first off. I had been arranging some of my own photos and bits and pieces of others' work on my shelves at home and realised that I already had an unconscious focus on swimmers, swimming pools, water, divers and so on. This made sense to me: I've always felt that water was my element, as I <b><a href="http://katherineleedale.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/morocco-part-iii-oh-i-do-like-to-be.html" target="_blank">wrote about</a></b> after my time in Morocco. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A few weeks later, and we met in a Stoke Newington park so I could say hi to his son and youngest daughter, who I'd never met, snap some photos of his oldest, who I hadn't seen since she was a baby, shoot Dan himself, and of course receive my beautiful painting. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Please do <b><a href="https://www.danferguson.co.uk/contact" target="_blank">drop him a line</a></b> if you're thinking of buying or commissioning a piece of art. He paints gorgeous family portraits too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Dan can be found on the internet at the following places: <b><a href="https://www.danferguson.co.uk/" target="_blank">website</a> /</b> <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/danfergusonfineart/" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b> or by emailing </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="mailto:dan_fergie@outlook.com"><b>dan_fergie@outlook.com</b></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">As I’ve <a href="http://katherineleedale.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/morocco-part-i-marrakech_18.html" target="_blank"><b>previously mentioned</b></a>, Morocco blew my mind in the best way. This wonderful stimulation only added to the generally fresh and new creative vibes I’ve been <a href="http://katherineleedale.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/youre-just-my-tin-type.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">feeling lately</a>; exploring painting, drawing, writing, sketching ideas for multimedia pieces, film and performance art. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">Another piece of a jigsaw fell into place when I watched Randall Wright’s <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4008606/" target="_blank"><b>documentary about David Hockney</b></a> shortly before leaving. Having visited <b><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/david-hockney" target="_blank">Tate’s retrospective</a></b> in February I was surprised how little I knew of Hockney’s output and how much I loved the work. (Run to see the exhibition, which closes soon!) and I was inspired to find out more. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">I watched the film on BBC iPlayer, where it’s no longer available, but you can <b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/sep/26/hockney-trailer-artist-david-hockney-video" target="_blank">watch the trailer online</a></b> or <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hockney-DVD-Randall-Wright/dp/B00O9XH7FU" target="_blank"><b>buy the DVD</b></a> and I strongly recommend that you do! One of the most interesting parts was where the artist was talking about making panoramas on his iPhone - how he thinks of them, like his <a href="https://theartstack.com/artist/david-hockney/artwork-9-canvas-study-grand-c" target="_blank"><b>multi-canvas landscapes</b></a> or his <a href="http://www.hockneypictures.com/photos/photos_collages.php" target="_blank"><b>collaged photographs</b></a> as a way of exploring space differently and more expansively. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Here’s an accidental creation that happened while I was editing all my more traditional images of the Jardin - zooming as close as possible to check the crop on one picture, I realised I’d filled my screen with the </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue" target="_blank">International Klein Blue</a> </b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">the house is famous for and in doing so created a Moroccan tile pattern of sorts. This has another layer too, seeing as (according to William Gibson, via Wikipedia), it is extremely difficult to reproduce accurately on computer screens…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">What was your seaside growing up? Mine was the quintessential South Coast English sort: gentle dunes, salty water, goose pimples (often), picnics behind stripey plastic windbreaks (always), games of cricket with my cousins, sandcastles, <a href="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/78/13/04/781304de01f9be3b1b9000f2db1fa52e.jpg" target="_blank"><b>99 flakes</b></a>, seagulls, chips (lots of vinegar please) on the way home, and falling asleep gritty with sand and covered in freckles in the back of my mum’s Ford Escort to the tune of Paul Simon’s <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Graceland-Paul-Simon/dp/B00000E9O7" target="_blank"><b>Graceland</b></a> on repeat. Imagine the <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=famous+five+beach&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBjv7PvbDTAhVCbhQKHRMWA6QQ_AUICCgB&biw=1272&bih=676#hl=en&tbm=isch&q=famous+five+books" target="_blank"><b>Famous Five</b></a> filtered through <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=martin+parr+seaside&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFxOXmvbDTAhVGPRQKHY-CBPMQ_AUICCgB&biw=1272&bih=676" target="_blank"><b>Martin Parr</b></a> and you’re about there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">Since then I’ve explored the top layers of the Great Barrier Reef, all be-rainbowed with tropical fish, and dipped from snowy river meltwaters into bath-hot sea on two sides of a Turkish peninsula. (Less romantically I’ve also forded hip high mud flats to freeze my lungs stiff on the Norfolk coast). I love swimming in fresh water and dip my toes into the paradise that is the <a href="http://www.klpa.org.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Hampstead Heath Ladies’ Pond</b></a> on a summer’s day with glee; but saltwater will always be my first love. It buoys you up, it heals your skin, it makes your hair mermaid-wavy with no effort, and gives you the ravening appetite of a hungry wolf. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">If Morocco isn’t your bag, see where else your yoga could take you…I booked initially through <b><a href="https://bookretreats.com/" target="_blank">BookRetreats</a></b> and they also come highly recommended with a prompt and personal query service and easy search tools.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The dyers used to occupy much more space here in the medina but as demand for handmade goods has dwindled, so have their numbers. Hidden down an alleyway, you'll find walls painted with handprints and running with water from dripping skeins of wool hanging overhead. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">You'll get a harder sell here than elsewhere in the market and the workers hauling steaming hanks of material in and out of dye pits will actively dissuade you from taking photos - which is, of course, fair enough! Wander about and breathe deep and you'll get a noseful of wet sheep that'll take you back to autumn days in your school blazer. Fill your eyes with the vivid sight of bowls of pigment powder all made from natural materials - poppy seed, something that looks like lapis, ochre. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In my case, you'll also get chatting with one dyer who invites you in for a closer look at the process and thinks you very funny as you bend to snap a picture of his battered gold teapot and fuzzy tv screen filled with aerial snow. </span></div>
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Katherine Leedalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702875144622811508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356866662414349283.post-18775985144124168022017-04-18T11:00:00.000+01:002017-04-18T11:00:14.358+01:00Morocco, part I: Marrakech<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In Morocco, I had trouble sleeping. Not because I wasn't tired; walking around for two full days in the delicious warmth of Marrakech followed by six of surfing and yoga at the coast exhausted me in the most relaxed way possible. No, I couldn't sleep because my brain apparently wanted to luxuriate in the memory of every moment that I spent in the country.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Like a spool of film unrolling across my inner eyelids, I showed myself all over again what I had seen each day. City and village alike displayed a Seventies technicolour glory of buildings in faded pinks, oranges, and mint green, punctuated vibrantly with bursts of bougainvillea purple and International Klein blue; flowers blooming earlier than at home; a crescent moon rising over the curling surf; every street tiled, iron-worked, hand-painted with signage for rabbits, plumbing services, hairdressers; shafts of sunlight falling into courtyards that don't seem to fit together with their neighbours. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If it sounds like a brilliant and overwhelming flood, then I've accurately described a small slice of my trip. It was too much and I couldn't get enough of it. I couldn't possibly try and explain the sensory overload that I encountered there in more words, so maybe we should let some photos be our guide into Marrakech? We'll ease ourselves in gently with some dusty tones before the Jardin Majorelle really punches our lights out with its citrussy vibes...I'll link to everything at the end of the post.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I totally lost track of time during the day, winding back to the centre of town eventually to find a flower and plant market established in Place Jemaa el-Fnaa. A man was sprinkling water over these pots of roses, all retro-chic in their reused olive and tomato cans, and it looked so flipping refreshing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And so on to my final stop in Marrakech, designer Yves St Laurent's Jardin Majorelle, a tonic for the senses in every respect. The home he left to the city is painted in an almost painfully bright shade of ultramarine pioneered and patented by another Yves, Klein by name. The garden is a tranquil haven of bamboo, palms, succulents and cacti growing to enormous heights in calming grey gravel, koi carp blipping peacefully in ponds, and pot plants housed in vessels in an acidic gold and juicy tangerine; all misted by cool sprinklers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It's a little bit of a walk outside the city walls in the more modern Gueliz neighbourhood so feels even more of a relief after the blare and heat of walking along a busy main road. While it's thronged with fellow tourists, I still felt incredibly calm after spending a couple of hours there doing some quiet coloured drawings and taking a million photos. There's a nice little gallery of St Laurent's collaged LOVE greetings cards he sent friends and family every New Year, a museum of Berber costume and history (which I didn't visit), and an extremely fancy boutique and cafe (which I couldn't afford!).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Interestingly, Marrakech seems to have embraced a certain hipster element since my last visit. Around the Place des épices you'll find <b>Cafe des Epices</b> and <b>Nomad</b>, both highly recommended by bloggers and Instagrammers I follow, and I passed Nomad's sister restaurant <b>Le Jardin</b> on my wanderings. I called in to check the cafes round the spice square out but to be quite honest I live in East London and don't want to eat in places that look just like the ones in Shoreditch when I am abroad! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I wanted to visit the <b><a href="http://amalnonprofit.org/" target="_blank">Amal Women's Center</a></b>, a training and development organisation that has fantastic reviews for their food. They upskill women at risk by training them to cook at a restaurant level, and there is an emphasis on sustainability which I really admire. Unfortunately I ran out of time! It's not far from the Jardin Majorelle so maybe could be combined. You can also take cooking classes with them which I think would be really fun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And so, on to the sea...but not before a special stop in the Souk de teinturiers (dyers' market). Until next time, fellow travellers...</span></div>
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