Window on Wednesday….

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Window on Wednesday

Actually today it is a house as well as the window…I love everything about this house….I would have loved to visit the inside….but I imagine what it may be like…

Randomness…..

I have spent many hours doodling squares in my life….

I remember …years ago….visiting the art gallery (have a meander…I really miss this space…) just up the road from where I lived in Durban…

….on exhibit was a piece about a metre squared….it comprised 2” squares joined together at each corner of the square..

(a very rough sketch but you get my meaning)..

I think the squares were ceramic if I’m not mistaken…..I was so taken with this piece….it has lived in my memory all these years….

I am thinking about creating the same sort of thing in cloth….

 

….at the moment things are very random…colours are everywhere….motives on the squares…are a bit meaningless right now….

….this…found in an “Aladdin's Cave” while in Turkey….brought the memory to the front of my brain diary…..

….another awakening to this memory…. was making stones for the Magic Feather Project…..

…got me thinking ….

…square!

Window on Wednesday

…at the slave fort on Bunce island….

Some information about the island and the fort:

Bunce Island is located about 20miles upriver from Freetown and is the site of an 18th century British slave castle. Although a small island only about 1650 feet long and 350 feet wide, its strategic position at the limit of navigation in Africa's largest natural harbour made it an ideal base for European slave merchants and was the largest British slave castle on the Rice Coast. African farmers with rice-growing skills were kidnapped from inland areas were sold at the castle or at one of its many "outfactories" (trading posts) along the coast before being transported to North America. Several thousand slaves from Bunce Island were taken to the ports of Charleston (South Carolina) and Savannah (Georgia) during the second half of the 18th century.

Sadly the site of the old fort is in a very sad state and there is absolutely no visible evidence of the old town and new town shown as on the map above. The cemetery not shown on the map is just a sandy opening in the quite dense bush. One or two head stones have “survived” and lay in pieces scattered on what were once graves. We were able to make out on one of the head stones; a Governor at the fort had arrived when he was 35, he died aged 60…we wondered if he ever returned to England for a break…we came to the conclusion that perhaps he did not…

a collage of what remains…

Lazy Saturday

We were meant to take a trip to the beach today but work got in the way for my dear husband so we have spent the day lazing on our veranda…bird watching…sewing and Sudoku (my husband is a fanatic)

this is the thrush having a wonderful time…we have become good friends…he never bats a feather when we are on the veranda just a few steps away from the bird bath…

I have been busy adding to my magic feather on canvas…

…the “killer Sudoku”..with so many options….

hope that you are having a good weekend where ever you are….