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A quick trip into town this afternoon to see the Alechinsky exhibition at the Botanique which leaves me - as always with his work - in at least two minds (why the maps as an under-text? how do the cartouches relate to the central image? why the scale? is he turning them out like sliced bread?). Heretical thoughts, of course, given his near canonized status in Belgium.

However, an unexpected pleasure was discovering Kikie Crevecoeur's work - a series of improvisations using rubber stamps. One of those terrific synchronicities - right when I'm thinking of digging out my tools and working with the scraboutchatcha images as little prints. The way she's working in linear or grid form (not to mention her orihons and way of holding gatherings of pages with rubber bands)



- well, she's given me loads of ideas.



Sadly, none of her orihons are for sale, so I make do with a print she's issuing to raise funds for Haiti. Acquisitiveness and charity go hand in hand.