The new page!!!

HI, I just wanted to let you know that I also have a new page here:

http://chiaracerinotti.tumblr.com

Yu huuuuuu! :)

Summer is gone.

I spent all August far from home, lost in parties, train rides and ceramic.
In a way I was planning to come back and be so full of creative energy and positive thoughts to post here but I was wrong. I came back weak and nostalgic, empty in a way that I could not foresee.
I took many many pictures and I will start posting some of them today. The strength is coming back and I just need to focus again.

The main event of summer 2013 was my trip to Cervo, an amazing village on the coast of Galicia. I was there for a 3 weeks seminar organised by the amazing people of SARGADELOS.

I will take some more time to post on that, first here are some images of what my walk to the workshop was like.

Adelaide and Olivia.

Yesterday my little friend Olivia turned 2 and she was finally old enough to play with the rabbit doll I made her with my mum and sister!
Here are some pictures of the Adelaide.

REAL jobs.

One of the things I really hate about the world we live in is the fact that despite how much effort and passion you put in your art it is not considered a job if you don't make a lot of money out of it.
This way you always end up spending a lot of energy explaining to your family or friends what you do on a daily basis to be able to proof that you work as much or even more hours than they do.
I have always been bad at selling myself and I always put others' before me but I am really fed up with having to defend myself to proof that I am not lazy or just making time because I don't want a real job. Do I need at least a part time job for a steady income at the moment? YES Do I need a REAL job because I am scratching my belly all day long on the sofa? NOOOOO. I am doing my job.... I am just not making enough money!!!!

Lately in ceramic...

I have more that I haven't photographed yet but these are some of the pieces I  made lately.

The beginning and the end of an obsession.

This obsession began a while ago, I was far from Italy as I had been for a few years and I realised that the only connection I had left with my best friend was her blog and what she wrote in it.
I missed her terribly and was still asking myself what I did to make her wanting to forget me. Every time I switched on my computer I checked her blog and hoped to find an answer. I hoped to find a new post,  to see what she was up to, to see if she was doing well.

And the obsession had begun.

 I couldn't honestly avoid doing it, every time I was online I was checking it, I was obsessed with the idea that she might have had a reason not to want me anymore in her life and I was feeling a big fat hole in my heart. Then one day I was reading her blog and I started crying, I felt so sorry for myself, so insecure and pathetic.
I suddenly realised that what I was doing was a desperate act of finding a way back in her life as I was not ready to give her up. I also finally got that people move on for different reasons and there is nothing we can do to change their mind.
This obsession ended like it started and I did what I was expected to do. I moved on.
I am writing this down for myself because I often fall into the dark zone of nostalgia and do stupid things...

This above is an etching I did a while ago with one of my beloved Mr. Fish characters.

Fiesta de los gallos.