october! hope you are also happily settling into the coziness of fall. in continuing my stint of making preserves again, i recently made pear ginger jam as well as pear cardamom butter. the pear butter turned out especially well & if you are interested in the recipe i will so happily share. please please share any of your fall favorites with me too :)

…recent tattoos…

i lost my phone this month (i’m an aquarius) & with it most of my photos so you guys get a very random smattering of the photos i still have access to! mostly of customs just to mix it up a bit :)

…my favorite ikebana i made last month…

…artist of the month…

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright & theatre director. But also, go figure, he was an amazing visual artist. I came across a book of his drawings recently and was so blown away that I had to feature him this month. While he began by doodling caricatures of his professors and friends at school in Granada, Lorca continued to draw throughout his life, both exploring new ideas and illustrating his own plays and poems. Most of his drawings come from several distinct periods in his life, including the times surrounding his friendship with Dalí, while Lorca was studying and writing in New York, and later while in Buenos Aires, where he spent a great deal of time drawing rather than writing and even worked on illustrations for Pablo Neruda. I really love the freedom of his line and playful yet deeply emotional feel of his work.

…closing track…

Rundines chi ’olades Vieri Mura, Maria Teresa Pir... PREVIEW   ​

(Cantos sung by 80 yo Sardinian Maria Terese Pirrigheddu backed by the young composer Vieri Mura on guitar…made on a small portable recorder with swallows swooping in the background ✨)

💙kristen