[Glass Etching] TNT Dessert plates

I found some nice dessert plates at the cristaleria, so I etched two with drawings of my favourite character! 

[Song] Participe Present - François Béranger

Ce matin je me suis réveillé avec la chanson "Au point de sang" de François Béranger. C'est une chanson que jouait mon père les Samedis matin en faisant le ménage, pendante que ma mère, mes frères et moi-même étions à l'école.

Écoutant la vidéo sur youtube (ma configuration musicale est encore à réarranger), me vient la justification de la chanson "Participe Présent", que je n'avais pas bien écouté par le passé, et qui mentionne Pinochet, et le Chili:


J'aime en particulier le dernier couplet:

si poète il y a C’est dans les combats qu’il se trouve Dans le combat des p’tits matins Dans les lendemains qui déchantent (genius.com)

if a poet there is he is found in the fights in the fight of the early morning in the disapointing tomorrows

si un poeta hay se encuentra en las peleas en la pelea de la mañana en las mañanas desepcionadas

[Drawing] Prisoner in the eye

I can't remember exactly the first time I drew this motif of a prisoner inside the pupil of the eye of a clown, but it must have been while studying for my Ph D in Paris. I used the motif  again when I was in Waterloo, and again, in glass and in copper while living in Chile. 

Each time, there was this feeling of being trapped in obligations and expectations, from the society, from people around me, from my past self and more importantly from my imaginary future self. As for all those people who end up prisonner of the image that they so painfully created. 

But the drawing stands to say that in the end, most of us are only prisoner of ourselves, and it is only up to ourselves to open the cage and let ourself free to follow whichever path we fancy. which is not to say that the path is easy to choose ('just listen to your heart!', bah !), but merely that the choice is always here, at every moment, and that the constraints of continuity are there only to save time, otherwise lost in perpetual self questioning... 

[SHHHIT] Santiago House Harrier Invitational Trail, Day 2, part 2

On Saturday night we gathered at Flannery's pub to celebrate.

It was very cold, I lent three of my "cuellos" to a fellow hasher:

He did find them very funny to use :)

[SHHHIT] Santiago House Harrier Invitational Trail, Day 2, part 1

On Saturday morning, I joined with a fellow hasher to lay the trail.
Here was the plan:

Here is the result for the runner trail (notice some differences?)

The air was not very good:

And you could see it when watching the buildings from the park:

On the way I saw a rock with my name on it!

We informed everybody, and there were still 11 entousiastic runners:

After that we had a few celebrations: