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some leave some stay

So the end of seven months loving and living in Spain. After four days of packing, the contents of Robs flat, deposit themselves in Javis new flat. I am photographed on the way to the airport, I don't know why im smiling because Im sad to be leaving the beautiful Asturias

cudilleru

cudilleru

A day out to a small fishing village, we walked through a tunnel with a river running by our feet ,we wandered slowly up the steep streets, and looked out to sea. Good job we had the most extravagant Asturian cake, filled with a creamy.. well sweet cream to nourish the tired explorers.

photo fit

This is a scanned photo booth picture we took in Berlin.

London rehersal

On my way back from Berlin I had two days of wandering around London like a tourist, later on Me and Lyall sat and had a glass of wine while Annie and her band 'Coy carp burger' practiced thier super dreamy show. Muy bien

box of jesus

I took this picture in Alaxander plats Berlin on a Sunny Sunday. I like the preachers tool kit.

Exhibitionists

The top picture is of the artists and organisors of Transparent at KKB Berlin.
And then two art enthusiasts Walter and Jordie (hope I spelt that right)

muy fragil

this is how my recycled cardboard box turned out.

turistica

As all the other tourists headed out for sightseeing, I went to the heart of any culture, their Do It Your self shop!

carton viaja

I traveled to Berlin to show some work in a project space there in the Kunst klub Berlin Gallery
and along came a cardboard box as my fellow traveller.

vegie barbeque

A walk ,some snacks and chats

An afternoon trip to Salinas and then a cliff walk further west.

displays

Its the Easter week and the local Catholic ornament shop has an elaborate display of Jesus, this being only one of about ten variations.
The second picture is of a menu board I saw outside a resturant, it seemed to serve every dish imaginable and the carved letters are realy impressive... someone had a fun winter project!

Laboral entertainment

The thing to do when its realy raining.... now that the new Laboral centre has opened we went to the free bee weekend to give the space a test run. So the exhabition on now is all about digital/ machine art and there is some good interactive quriosities. There is a gaming floor which has many computerised digital games for all ages to get completely confused as to how they work or do they work! Some of the interactive pieces were already bust after day two, and alot of the exhibits were out of bounds unless the artist was there to give permission, which is a bit of a joke when the artist lives in America say or the U.K. So again quite alot of baffled audiance walking around this ginormouse space looking a bit lost. I had a good time and was glad to be in a play pen out of the rain.

Laboral centre

So this week has just been so rainy I dont think ive left the house apart to go to the gym. As were moving in a month, ive been hoping it will dry up so I can go and collect some good strong boxes from the streets. As the weekend came around just as quick as the last one left we had an agenda to visit the exhabition space in the newly built Laboral centre and attend a seminar in the old renevated Franco building on the outskirts of Gijon. The complex was originally built as some kind of training centre to teach the youthnof Asturias practical skills to later benafit the northern economy. As you can see we were enjoying the funny murul in the cafe area, original chairs and tables from Franco time but covered over with new upholstry, it was like being stuck in some kind of Soviet boutique hotel.

sunday drivers

We enjoyed a tour around the peninsula inbatween Aviles and Gijon, had a little walk and visited the sleepy harbour at Luanco.

Nice building

I spent a couple of days walking around Gijon admiring the diverse architecture, its a scruffy seaside town with some lovely buildings and all in all a very flamboyant style whos hayday was in the 1930's/ 40's.

touring around

Well I had a nice time in London but this blogg is about Spain and whats hot in Asturias so I will tell you. Theres a new cultural centre about to open in Gijon Universidad Laboral de Gijón its a huge complex and will have many exciting events in the future. We went there on Friday as guests of Bob and Plaid to see them perform as part of a two day festival. It was very cold in this big reconverted powerstation factory space, and the organisors set the stage up smack bang in the middle of a big pillar so the direct view was obstructed, not so clever as the festival was for video and music with big projections! Was entertaining all the same. For the fine visuals Bob creates are a pleasure to bestow on ones eyes.

AWL

Ive been away in England so havent posted on my blogg for a while, so to celebrate my return here are some wigs in Rodrigo's hair shop.

bathers

Ive been to Gijon twice this week as it is very sunny and warm.

sculpture

This is a sculpture in Gijon with an empty bottle of beer.

un-hinged

This is a chest of drawes im making for my up and comming exhabition in Berlin. It will be part of a set of bespoke 'one off' master crafted furniture set! I In my search for re-cycled cardboard and other bits, im finding it difficult to forrage these plastic handles. So if anyone happens to find sush a thing, usually attatched to a box which carried a D.V.D player or Hi Fi system, please send to me. It doesnt matter what colour or shape, more variety the better.
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dont eat me.

It is prohibited to eat 'Pipas'... me

Bear trail

week ago Me and a friend caught a bus to Proaza.
This is a cycle trail along a disused railway which follows a river up a long valley. Seb and I hired bikes for 9 euros and spent a few hours cycling. What we didnt realise was how much of an incline the path was on the way to Entrago, so on the way back we didnt have to peddle, just sit back and enjoy the scenery.
Seb took these pictures on his mobile phone.