Chani's Creative Space

In El Puerto de Santa Maria (short: "El Puerto") near Cadiz, far south in Andalusia, water and birds are omnipresent. On the Atlantic coast, the  town breathes according to the rhythm of ebb and flow (and wine). When we usually arrive there on Friday evening, it is already dawning, which makes the atmosphere even more romantic. Walking along river Guadalete, there are always interesting ships to look at:  Like this one, the Josefa Perez . With this special light and sky, it was photogenic: On the wetlands near to El Puerto, water birds are the most frequent. But in town, storks are everywhere, especially around and ON the cathedral: And they are present in street art as well. It is well done, but unfortunately, I do not know the name of the artist to give him/her credit. Should you know him or her, please kindly tell me! Thank you.

When temperatures rise without still being to warm, we like to walk around in the area of Carvajal, Fuengirola. If we are lucky, the water level is low, so we can walk on the rocks and look for fish, crabs, anemones, and all kind of sea life. Most of the time, we also find interesting birds: waders, little egrets, cormorants... This time though, seagulls were occupying a typical cormorants' place.  When you are there, without being connected to anything, you could think everything is okay in the world (but as soon as we turn around, plastic waste is insulting us - we picked up what we could to fill... a whole bag! I will never understand this.)

I wanted to create something with a minimalist design. A work that reflects my way of living, with as less as possible, every day a little bit less every time it is possible, because I am tired of consuming, buying, hearing so much noise, seeing so much waste, feeling so much hectic in shopping malls that are too hot in the winter and too cold in the summer. I do not spend one minute more than necessary there, but still... I feel like we are missing the most important thing in life, like looking at playing cats, flowers, at the rain or at birds. We prefer to catch birds and put them in indecent small jails, forcing them to sing, but why does their song not hurt us? I had no force to use a normal colour palette. No red, purple, orange this time. I have edited m y work  "Trees in the sand"  (watercolour on paper) that I painted in 2014, adding very few lines digitally: yellow and turquoise with a technical pen. The trees of Leba (Poland) have now become cacti here in Andalu...