We Are Back

We are back (:

The human spent 5 weeks in hospital, it was very grim for the first 3, then just horrible, but hopefully that’s all behind us, now. Human is home, looking at a very long, slow recovery. We are all very glad to have survived this horror ordeal.

Love and hugs to those who wished us well (:

Aimlessly Wandering

Flutters and I have been aimlessly wandering, these last few days…

… we’ve had fun…

… checked out some favourite haunts…

… in a few days, the human might cease to exist. This will mean that I will cease to exist. This will mean FlutterBye will cease to exist.

We both really want that not to happen.

Backdrops

Maison de L’amitié is a collection of photographic backdrops…

… loosely strung together…

… the overall impression is of ‘gritty grunge’…

… but it’s a very tidy, safe kind of urban decay…

… with lots of colour…

… and shapes and textures…

… which make for detail-rich imagery.

In just under a week, my human will undergo a 7 hour surgical procedure… with a 16% chance of dying on the operating table. If the human survives that, there will be 1-2 weeks in intensive care, with a high chance of several life-threatening complications. If the human survives that, there will be 6 months, minimum, of recovery.

At the least, there will be no posts, here, for a few weeks, as of next week… at the worst, this blog will stop.

Stairs and Bridges

Infinite Darkness has a beautiful palette…

… that makes for wonderful, graphic novel-like scenes…

… this is an environment of bridges and stairs…

… which lead to various, equally mist-enshrouded…

… parts of the build. All great for photographic fun…

… we startled this little black cat so badly, she froze on the spot…

… as we climbed higher, through the rain, we hoped the little black cat was better…

… and then we were at the top, feeling like characters in a graphic novel.

This is a very abbreviated account of our exploration, here, there’s lots to see, even a tunnel to Hell.

Over the Balcony

From the balcony of our apartment in Hangars Liquides…

… we can jump straight into a graphic novel-like scifi futurescape…

… a perfect place for us to stroll…

… amid vast, echoing halls of brutalist grandeur…

… where any kind of broken, repressive stuff could be happening…

… but, usually, it’s too wet for that…

… and everyone stayed home…

… everyone stayed home.

Roof Gallery

We recently visited this exhibition at ‘The Annex of Nitroglobus Roof Gallery‘…

… this is a lush, rich-hued presentation, both the space, and the work…

… there’s a demented cat…

… whose antics took my attention from these beautiful works, but only for a little while…

… this is a sumptuously appointed gallery space, the space as much a part of the experience as the work, which is always nice…

… I always appreciate the amount of work, especially attention to fine-tuned detail that goes into setting up an installation like this…

… it helps if the work is as beautiful as these are (:

Ghost

We visited the ‘The Ghost Has No Name’ exhibition, at the ‘Artsville Galleries‘, recently…

… we really liked both the space, and the work…

… beautiful, dream-Rorschach-like imagery…

… we liked them all. They are very reasonably priced, but there was no way we could sensibly buy all of them, so we settled for four…

… the gallery has an upstairs ‘party’ space, and a lovely courtyard…

… the courtyard is kinda zen…

… the ‘party’ space is kinda industrial…

… we totally enjoyed the time we spent, here (: