Ink

 Meanwhile, at Funky Buddha Tattoo shop, the ink keeps going. 

Portraits pass, mam, wife, kid, grandparents get etched in the skin.

 Trees and roots keep on growing.

And Shiva sings Om Mane Padme Om...

Teej

Teej is here. The women festival.
Once a year the women wear their best saris, fast, and dance for Shiva. 

Temples of red stones gets filled with shiny fabrics,
all floating in the air, to the move of the dance and music.
It's a good day to be a woman in nepal,

When young and old meet and share.
Teej is here. 

Enjoy the dance.

Beauty Queen
Standing in front of Black Bairav,
Drunken Shiva, protector god of nepal,
the beauty queen redoes her hair.
 

 Dancing
The dori, traditional nepale dance,
One hand in the air,
Twirling and turning.

 Waiting
Pujas: religious offering to the gods.
The leaf plates are filled with bananas, incens, red powder, a candle
and a flower for color.
The gods will be happy.

 Together
Dancing, dancing and turning throught the night,
Praying for the perfect husband
Om Nama Shiva Om
They dance

In line
In front of Durbar Square,
the women wait their turn...

Sunday breakfast

J'aime bien le petit dejeuner du dimanche, le simple et classique. 2 oeufs, des patates, toast, beurre et confiture et puis bien sure la tasse de cafe ou de the.
Je me le fais souvent ce petit dejeuner. C'est comme un rituel que je me suis fabrique: le petit dejeuner du dimanche. Ca me rapelle un peu les Etats Unis, avec les oeufs patates pour tit dej; Les francais sont plutot croissants et cereales. Et puis c'est dimanche, et j'aime bien prendre mon dimanche, une journee flemarde, une journee ou je ne laisse rien m'embeter.

La photo, c'est un de mes petits dejeuners preferes a Kathmandou, au Funky Buddha restaurant dans Thamel. J'aime bien le jardin, et puis tout est bon. Pas de pain blanc, mais une bonne tranche de pain au pumkin,  et une confiture faire maison, a la pomme ou bien au fruits rouge.

Ah, l'Art de prendre son temps en flemassant...un grand art...

Daily life 2

 Naya bazaar

Shiva lingam and chai

Chai and spices

Daily life

 Dai festival

 

Cane sugar walla

View from Swanbunath

Buddha mural

Ausadi buddha
The buddha of medecine, in Kathmandu, Nepal, in the Family Peace guest house garden.
From the Sacred Heart serie.

Mandala flowers

 Flowers
Glow in the dark pigments on canvas. 90x100 cm.

The flowers cut in 4 pieces. Here is one of them framed.

Henna feet

 Making henna design on Lisa's foot, in Arambol, Goa.

Et voila!

The crab

The crab

Glow in the dark pigments on canvas. 90x100 cm

Cochin

Un article en francais sur Cochin, dans le Kerala au sud de l'Inde.

Ici.

Agathes

New stones collection. 

Agathes, rose quartz and stone paintings...

Garuda

Pendant ce temps, au magazin de tatouage, les images defilent...

Ici, un superbe Garuda, la monture du dieu hindu Vishnu.

Buddha and Tara

 

Buddha and the bodhi tree.

Green Tara.

Wrapping stones

 Rose quartz, shell and glass beads.

Turquoise, shell and wood beads.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

 "To have peace, you must live peacefully, that is no ambition, no competition, no nationality, no class division, no petty little division of race, of country, linguistic or non linguistic. To live peacefuly you must be at peace with yourself."

A text for Jiddu Krishnamurti, one of my favorite teachers, read here.

Blue beads

Blue beads necklace.

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shell beads

Shell beads bracelets.

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…” 

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Stone painting

 In process...

Agathe glass necklace.

Shanti Buddha

Shanti Buddha.
Glow in the dark pigments on canvas. Nepal serie.

90x100 cm

 “The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
Buddha.

 Série népalaise: Shanti, Ganesh, Kranti, Kali, Swatantra

Ganesh

 Ganesh

Glow in the dark pigment on canvas. Nepale serie.
90 x 100 cm

In this painting, Ganesh holds the 4 words which stand in the Nepale serie. Maya (love, illusion), Swatantra (freedom), Kranti (revolution), Shanti (peace). Ganesh holds them all together.
In the other hand, he holds the wheel of life, which he supports.

Aum Shri Ganeshaya Namah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesha