Alternative Ground Cafe Show - view 2

Alternative Ground Cafe Show - view 1

ART SHOW ANNOUCEMENT !!!

It's up, it's happening! it's at Alternative Grounds Cafe (Roncesvale ave)
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My Art is now showing at Alternative Grounds Cafe on Roncesvale, Toronto, for the month of May!
- Where? : 333 Roncesvalles Ave (just south of hardware store).
I have been working in a new direction for the last 5 years inspired by this amazing country.

The main source of inspiration for these paintings have been the Canadian Boreal Forest, West coast and Inuit Art, Paul Klee, Russian folk Art and traditions.

Learn more about my art at:
http://www.artmajeur.com/bougon
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Or on Flickr: search for "Kipikart"

ALTERNATIVE GROUND CAFE is an ethical cafe on gruvy Roncesvale ave in the heart of the old Polish District, selling community based products that benefits small coffee growers. They are very active in those communities and need your support!
A PORTION OF THE SALE OF KIPIK'S ART WILL BENEFIT THEIR PROGRAMS
Visit their web site for more info!

http://www.alternativegrounds.com/
- It's about the planet, it's about the people... Come for a nice home-brewed cup of South-American coffee!

This wondrous dream of last night

Gentle man in my dream  of last night - Thank you. You were kissing my temples in a loving gesture, gracefully, gently, lovingly. It felt so good, so peaceful.

Thanks to you also wonderful woman in my dream last night, to you most of all. You did this magical thing, this incredible thing. You had this secret technique. You rubbed my spine at the neck and something magical happened. My whole body started to vibrate, it felt utterly peaceful and relaxing. Absolute bliss. I felt so great that I had to stop you. I didn't want to but I felt just too great. I could not or should not feel any greater. You stopped for a while and offered to start again. I refused. It was just too much goodness. I could not take more!!!

Thank you special souls for this wondrous dream. I've never had a dream like it before. I will never forget it. May the stars and all that is made of light thank you for me: I am too shy to tell either one this strange and inexplicable dream I had of you. I feel like crying when I think about it. What a wondrous dream

my little stool obsession

I recently found this great little bamboo folding stool in a thrift shop. It evokes afternoon tea in the garden, a quiet spot under a tree, a picnic, and it's a great chair to take with me in places where you want to sit but can't, like a museum when you want to draw, or a laundromat when the owner is to thrift to provide chairs... It works great. 

I have an obsession with stools, I am looking for the ultimate one. What is it supposed to look like? ...I don't know.  I have already a Mexican folding one, a small adorable vintage green one with turned feet, a wicker one... but it is never enough!

Am I crazy? (don't answer that!)

my psychedelic little vintage planters

Ploting, potting and planting in the sunshine on a beautiful saturday afternoon.
 - In my vintage pots from the 70s.

Horace - 1868 - from "Tenth Edition Book Store"

From that wonderful book shop: This precious little french book has the most glorious blue cover, with the original spine in used and abused condition: daaaaarling! 

I could just eat it, but won't.

 

Went book hunting on Spadina with Anita last week, to my favorite book shop, "Tenth Edition Book Store"  Just north of Harbor. You can find there the best selection of second hand books anywhere, for a great price!

Books line the shop from floor to ceiling and for every subject. She has a very good selection of nature books, poetry, art, children books. I make pilgrimage there regularly, even though she is a bit far now that I have moved. 

She seemed to say time was hard these days. I got scared. Loosing a shop like hers would be a (Corneille-like) tragedy. I have found over the years some amazing treasure there. I could not bare to loose that! 

But it's my fault. I have been selfishly keeping my little secret from other book lovers. 

No more.