Hello readers, i think there may be two or three of you out there!

This is just a quick note to say, I'm moving...

I will be using a word press platform from now, so please change your bookmarks, or other fancy schmancy gadgets if you would still like to follow my journal.

Thanks live journal for being so accommodating all these years...

bye Bye

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I will be deleting my account next week

xoxox
kat

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Loosely based on Hieronymus Bosch's famous triptych, The garden of Earthly delights, MissYucki has created a new print work, City of Spooks and Delight. This characteristically MissYucki landscape illustrates, in 3 printed panels, a dreamscape of spooky delights in which a MissYucki Pageant Princess is the central character seen cavorting amidst shadowy creatures in a realm filled with curious candyfloss hues and almost familiar terrain sprinkled with symbols of Johannesburg, mining and eerie amusement.

City of Spooks and Delights is a digital, collaged illustration created using Photoshop. It's elements are a combination of digitally drawn details layered and textured with photographs. The work is comprised of three print panels; Bokkie Bliss, Golden Terra and Muti Mining. Together these panels form a mysterious and fantastical landscape reminiscent of Johannesburg and specifically symbols associated with Johannesburg's mining history, including mine dumps, headgears, gold, and other mineral treasures.

The landscape presents a magical and precarious mood, which disguises an undercurrent of angst with traces of cloying cute and deceptively delightful Pierneef like pastel composure. This characteristic synthesis of sweet and sickly
themes is integral to MissYucki's narrative and hints at notions of concealed secrets and otherworldliness. The childlike dreamscape also calls to mind invention and play and the characters fill the image, acting out a dreamlike fairytale of temptation.

The central panel, Golden Terra depicts a Pageant Princess figure in the company of muti monsters which flow towards her from the right Muti Mining panel, dripping and drooling their way out of a sinister darkness in a splattered hazy stain across the image, wooing her with delicious almost dangerous delights. She is seen surrounded by a sweep of golden sand, mine dumps and sparkles, she is poised in a state of ruptured alarm as she advances towards the beguiling glow and sweet promise of delight presented in the Bokkie Bliss panel.

The Muti Mining Panel depicts a peculiar, dark tone where amorphous muti creatures trudge beneath the earth in an inferno of mechanical, industrial - mining gloom. It is a scene where corrupt muti lurks, where treasure pilfering prevails and where a deep melancholy which; forms the heart of Spook is raised.

The Springbok is a significantly loaded symbol in South African culture and in the Bokkie Bliss panel the classic Bokkie is seen as a hybrid - rocking plaything perched precariously on the edge of a glimmering mine dump. The Bokkie is flirting with fear, uncertainty and peril. The setting holds a vague serenity but on closer inspection its blissful suggestions and sublime soft hued twinkle are signs of uncertainty and lures designed to seduce and entice. The Pageant Princess has indeed been enchanted by the influence of the Bokkie and one is left wondering if perilous playtime is blissful or terrifying.

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Some drawings I have been working on today in the sunlight... more soon...

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I have just created a Tote Bag for Envelope.com which features a pretty girl encrusted with proteas having a deep conversation with a sugarbird...

"The Flora Kingdom of South Africa's southern most tip is one of only six floral kingdoms in the world. This unique vegetation is called Fynbos and includes the beautiful protea, and all sorts of other delicate flowers. The Cape Sugarbird is a species restricted to the Cape Fynbos, and really loves to munch on the nectar of the specific flowers in the area. I was born in Cape Town and the landscape and birds of the region influenced this design."

Click HERE to buy:

All the bags are €19.99 or approx $27.42
Printed on 100% 230gr/m² cotton. W 38cm/15" x H 38cm/15". Washable at 80°C without fading. Buy them at Envelope.com by clicking on the images:

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This Photo was taken on the way... spring is out in full boom. hooray! I am so sick of winter! There were a thousand blossoms watching the sun, im sure the pollen has been making milos sick! thank goodness i dont have any allergies...

We went for a Hike in the area, and explored the village of St tropez...



The Easter weekend was typically gloomy, and it was quite difficult to take photographs with the bad light and glare... but it did turn the sea into molten silver... super sparkley



The superyachts all tie up right on the village doorstep, in barcelona its a little difficult to get up close to boats like this, they are all locked away...I especially liked that they had little lights underneath that lit up the water at night, you could watch tiny fish darting through the lightbeams.







Many of the boats had super silly names, like "Powdermonkey" and "Don't Touch" !



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For the Easter Weekend Milos and I were invited to visit some friends who work in St Tropez. We packed our car, and prepared for the 6 or 7 hour trip up through France and to St Tropez. the small village is located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and is really quite beautiful, it isnt surprising that it has become a sort of playgroud for people with lots of gold stashed in their mattresses. :)

The town’s name derives from that of an early, semi-legendary martyr named Saint Torpes. His legend states that he was beheaded at Pisa during the reign of Nero, and that his body was placed in a rotten boat with a rooster and a dog. The body landed at the present-day location of the town. gross. anyway thats what wikipedia says, also apparently Bridgit Bardot loved the village, and i saw tons of postcards advocating this fact.

I had planned to wear white and meet george clooney, but sadly my wardrobe is very lacking in white items, and wandering around in little high heels doesnt quite suit. And George Clooney was nowhere to be seen, probably he was hiding on one of the many superyachts tied up at the harbor partying below deck with Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Wes Anderson :) Le sigh!

We had to take our fish along for the ride, as we had forgotten to organise someone to look after him, luckily he survived the trip, and now he is a very well travelled goldfish.



We travelled through Marseille on the way up to the Cote Azur... Its quite an industrial city, which makes me appreciate Barcelona, however i think it may warrant a closer look next time. Also Milos really wants to go and visit the famous fort that inspired Dumas to write "The Count of Monte Cristo" ... Milos has a thing for forts and ruins and castles, kinda like my thing for birds... Boy we are geeks!

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I have added a few new prints to my etsy shop... oh no this is not an April fools joke! :) yep, brand new prints, and some especially for summer... look look!

This one is especially cute, you can frame it as a print or use it as a card for someone special.
I have drawn it so that you can write your own special note in the sand....





let me know what you think :)

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bird chart, originally uploaded by KatsAsleep.

Spent the weekend moseying around Barcelona. Milos did not have classes on Saturday, which is pretty unusual so we took the opportunity to take a bike ride down to town.





We stopped in at the Caixa Forum, which is a lovely building in itself, an old modernista textile factory designed by Puig i Cadalfach. Usually the exhibitions held there are pretty good too, and we weren't disappointed.

A huge photographic installation honouring children around the world is on display in the main foyer and upstairs we found a sala dedicated to Fellini as well as two modern art exhibitions with some interesting pieces. My favourites being a huge molecular sculpture and a really interesting shadow display involving revolving toys and spotlights.



After that we treated ourselves to mochi icecream and Nepalese snow bud tea at a super cute little teashop in the Jewish quarter in the old city... We were introduced to this little place by a couple of friends, and we just can't get enough, the chai is AMAZING, and the cozy place makes you want to move in... lots of comfy couches and books, the perfect place to relax with a cuppa.




On Monday we took a drive up to AiguaMolls, to satisfy the birdgeek in me... lots of spring time migrants were quacking and sqawking and really getting into the whole spring vibe....

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I just finished up this drawing of, me i guess, flying on a japanese paper crane with a cheetah giraffe and a small antelope. I´m quite please with it... let's see how i feel in a week :)




Yesterday and today have been lovely, the sun has come out again, and i think everyone in barcelona is remembering what summer was like, and out and about in droves. I'm about to skip outside too... of to the Servei Estacio, and then to my favourite tea shop, where I shall have a chai and some wasabi peanut snacks, and maybe some mochi ice cream....aaaaah !

then if the mood takes me i may wander to the Caixa Forum to see what's happening there.

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An early rise before the sun, which came up huge and rosy on the road to Figueres. We saw the last of the crazy snow of 2010 that hit the Med, on the way to the border, large piles scraped to the side of the road, creating icy walls along the highway. I can only imagine the mentalness that would have been that road in the middle of the storm.



Crossing the border and quickly through the Pyrenees, drive, drive up through France. Montpellier. Check. Avingnon. Check. Grenoble. Check. On the way through France, Milos ate a bad "le big mac", mine was great and msg-ey but Milos's was nasty, and during an EPIC traffic jam, we spent a part of it on the side of the road in gloom, while le big mac was unceremoniously returned to the light of day :( much to the delight of passing French holiday makers who were crawling past at 3 km/ hour. oh dear. Swiss Border. Check.

Arrival in Genevè, found the hotel, collapsed on the bed. Sigh. After a quick recuperation period, i went downstairs and bumped into Mark, the reason for the drive up to Geneva. yay!

later we all went out for some Thai snacks and random beer from all corners of the world, and then slept very well. We woke up the next day and went exploring, trying to find a breakfast somewhere.

Down at the lake, we found the yummiest breakfast brunch ever, at a strange little canteeny place next to the Hamam, where we were treated to large chunks of fresh bread and cheese and jam, as well as a delicious salmon salad with capers, and and, a naked swiss man swimming in the freezing lake!


This little bird wanted to eat some of my breakfast too.


Milos shows the little kids hows it's done... skipping stones is only for pros kids, watch out!



The lake was incredibly clear, i couldnt get enough of it. it was like looking into an aquarium.



Can you see the invader, invading the lake in geneva? :)



There were bazillions of birds, and as anyone who really knows me, they will know that this made me very happy because I am a bird geek, or at least a bird sucker fool :-)

The really cool thing was that you could see all the ducks diving under the water.

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I got back from a fun trip to Geneva, Switzerland last week. slowly i have been editing the photographs. And I hope to post them here soon. In the mean time i am dreaming of coffee and another long road trip.

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Otherwise known as the CCCB, I remember the first time I went there, there was a ginormous Jane Alexander installation in the open air courtyard, of course I was instantly smitten with the museum and honestly it's probably the best one in Barcelona, closely followed by the Caixa Forum.



Anyway when I popped in there the other day, the works on display by Oleg Dou, Evan Penny and Dionisio Gonzales really caught my eye, and I thought I would share them here with you. Do yourself a favour and try to see the Exhibition. There was so much to see, my poor brain was over exposed to eye candy, and I needed a nap afterwards, but it was well worth it.





How amazing is the work of Dionisio Gonzales Oh man seriously, I want to move into his series "Halong" (2009) I'm not kidding. The photographs were really large so you could get up close and personal with all the little details.




This work blew me away from the end of the hall, as I came around a corner. It's huge. I love the colours, and the big shiney eyes. Why are big shiney eyes so appealing? Oleg Dou's work is quite astounding.

When I came across Evan Penny's relief sculpture my mind did a little leap and for about 2 minutes I couldnt quite tell where the real world ended and "Male Stretch" began. The sculpture itself was incredibly made, all the little hairs in the right places, i wanted to touch it so badly! it was really creepy, but i was fascinated, and couldnt tear myself away for quite some time...



There was such an excellent collection of art, and artists on the show, and you know, I've forgotten the name of the exhibition even though I took little geeky notes about all the artists that I saw while I was there, heh. Check out Dana Schutz, Lawrence Lemaoana (who I drank beer with, was it last year? anyway he's a South African artist, and good buddies with friends of mine)Vanessa Beecroft and Erwin Olaf

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watch out little explorer... look behind you! there's a big munchy hyena ready to gnaw on your bones....ooooeee... run run run!

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Hello this is exciting yes indeed. Yesterday I was running a few errands down in town in Barcelona, and I popped into the CCCB, as on thursday nights its free entrance oh yes. I always stop in at their museum shop, there are so many great books and interesting goodies that i lust over and empty my pockets for. I was happily browsing the shelves when I came across Sweet Illustration published by Monsa.

I was flipping through the book admiring all the illustrations, some of them by artists I have been following on the grand intrawebs for some time and others that were refreshingly new, when the layout started to look strangely familiar.

A little thought popped into my head.....wasnt this the book that I had been emailed about last year by Monsa...ho hummm, i continued to page through, and then! on page 135 I found ME! I nearly fell over! yay x 9000 seriously.



okok so let me fill you in. last year i was approached by monsa, to be included in a new book they were going to publish on female artists who illustrated cute/ sweet stuff.... I was honoured of course, and happily sent off my work, wondering if anything would actually happen, a couple of weeks later I was sent proofs, and then nothing....





So stumbling across the book store was a surprise, as i didn't even know that it had been published, let alone distributed... Anyway I happily charged it to my credit card and skipped through the exhibition with a big smile plastered all over my head!




The book is actually really cool, so many talented freaking amazing illustrators in there, i drool with happiness to be included hehe. It would make a wonderful addition to any fan of girly cute art. Go buy it now! :D

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yes it's true, and i thought it was finally becoming spring, but no mother nature fooled us, and just to prove a point she sent a whopping thundering snow storm down on barcelona. it snowed HUGe ginormous snowflakes, and lightning lit up the grey clouds. very cool indeed. I love snow, come on mother nature, can't you make every winter like this in barcelona, what's with all the rain. If it were up to me it would be either very sunny or very snowy.

barcelona hasnt seen snow like that since the early 80s, almost 30 years, woweee, man alive, all the busses stopped, people threw snowballs in plazas, barcelona was chaos! so many trees were weighed down with the snow that they snapped :( and the skylight in my apartment stairwell did not hold up too well... it cracked, and I'm lucky to be alive, because large chunks of glass kept crashing down the stairs, i was scared to open my door.

today the sun came out and melted everything, so i couldnt stay all warm and snuggled in bed, i had to get up, darn it!

spent the day posting and printing things... yes because i sold the first thing from my new shop, how exciting! i hope it gets to america land in one piece...

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