colored pencils

i love that in old art supply shops in madrid, you can buy colored pencils individually and when you've chosen the ones you want, they still wrap them all up in brown paper. it gave me a feeling of having bought something special and unique, precious even. And when I brought them home and tried to join them to all the other pencils that i've acquired through the years (couldn't resist the ones that almost share my name except for the h, a part of me felt a certain preference to these hand-picked, brown-paper wrapped pencils. If anything, they made me want to color...

...and this is what begun to happen...

well actually, it all started here...

with just a tiny ball of thread

and then there were three...