Of her work, she paints “portraits of peaceful sleeping characters, a way to express her own tiredness,”
“From one painting to another, Annabel entered in a visual dream where she created a common visual language : clouds passing by, phones reflecting quiet skies, windows opened on Provence landscapes where she grew up, and always huge round characters, with comforting gestures and expressions. Inspired by her deep dreams and souvenirs, her aim is to create positive and soft pictures to answer the anxiety of our modern society.”
“The Dwarves had an agriculture – which in early times they practiced when isolated and unable to buy grain etc. by barter. They had invented a “plough” of some sort – which they dragged as well as steered themselves: they were tough and strong – but they did not delight in such labour of necessity.”
– The Nature of Middle Earth
very silly mental image when i read this sentence tbh
“they did not delight in such labour of necessity.”