Susana Roque

Did you want to see my collection of images ?

October 24, 2016

Dear readers,

Today I decided that I would share some of the images that I have found on PInterest.

I especially recommend the following boards ( my favourite ones right now) :

1. Reflections in Photography
https://www.pinterest.com/sketchbookpage/reflections-in-photography/

2. Street Art
https://www.pinterest.com/sketchbookpage/street-art/

3. Beautiful and Creative Photography
https://www.pinterest.com/sketchbookpage/beautiful-and-creative-photography/

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Simba, the tabby cat, on the couch

October 20, 2016

Simba, the tabby cat, on my couch

sometimes you sat under the tree in front of my window, looking in

reaching out with your tail curled around you

protecting and observing me

sometimes I was art journaling

other times I wa probably planning what I would do the next day

nothing significant, it seemed

Yes, you came in a couple of times

looking all around as though you wanted to belong here

but you didn't quite fit

After a couple of hours, you pointed with your eyes at the door
for me to let you out

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Sketchbook Communications :
www.sketchbookcommunications.com

What do you see when you open a sketchbook ?

Is it a history book, a diary or a quiet promise of something new that is coming in the world that has not yet come, a present of some sort ? With enough courage, I suppose scribbles do unfold valiantly and give a new shape to this world. Perhaps, it is the idea that something new come out of nowhere and that it renews us that fascinates us.

A sketchook is a hearth, and adventure and a sec...
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A forest in the margins of the Shore

October 14, 2016

A Forest in the Margins of the Shore

This photography project/installation has sixteen photographs of bark that I took in Vancouver, at the Stanley Park sea wall, along the shore. This is a series of art work for an interactive art book on the web that I am working on, The Lighthouse, the Bird and the Poem on the Shore (www.thepoemontheshore.com).

These pictures, and their materiality, take me into a a story to respond to questions which I can only really ask along the sea shore. I am ...
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