• GALLERY / JOURNAL / WANDERINGS

    JULIA MITTON

  • OF DUSK IN GENERAL

    NICARAGUA

     

     

     
    SOMETIMES I GO OUT ON A LARK

    Follow a path that isn’t obvious

    Pursue a feeling that is as fragile

    As a bone-china teacup sitting high and forgotten On an antique store’s shelf

     

    The light comes through that thin porcelain

    The cup has the translucence

    of the old cashier’s hand

    Of an unplugged lovesong

    Of dusk in general

    (Fragile & fleeting, dusk ought to be considered with gentleness)

     

    When I consider, with this quiet care,

    The dying light of a day

    And think about unanswerable questions

    I think about how if I didn’t sometimes

    Wander away into the sunset

    I might become inert with sadness

    A sadness might grow, like moss, over my immobile branches

     

    I might stay this way, embalmed in the slow-growing beauty

    That is an oil-painted pear

    That is aging

    That is the great settling down into the earth

     

    But I surf, therefore I move

    I move, and watch, and move some more

    I think of nothing, feeling everything

    Connected to the slightest shift in the ocean’s surface

    To the shadows in the water below me

    To the sound of water under my surfboard

     

    I observe no looping mind

    No jumping thoughts

    No turbulence

    When I get out of the water I always feel

    Like I’ve been to the truth and back

     

    I let surfing answer the unanswerable questions

    I catch the waves and carve little pathways into the ocean

    Trying to follow them all the way to shore

    sliding along with my feelings

    Considering them with gentleness

    AS THE LIGHT FADES

     

     

     

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    ABOUT ME 

     

    how about I tell you about a few things i love?

     

    I love a lot of things but these might be some of the things I love the most.

     

     

    • I love waking up and making coffee
    • i love taking my time in the morning
    • i love a delicious yoga class in a hot, tropical location
    • i love talking about surfing
    • i love talking about art & artists
    • i love telling stories
    • i love taking impulsive & wild decisions so I have good stories to tell
    • i love a good surf
    • I love to watch the ocean
    • i love living in small, perfect spaces
    • i love to sing
    • I love feeling included
    • I love participating
    • I love when people share
    • i love reading books to kids as they fall asleeP

     

     

    Born on the east coast of canada,

    I Live between marseille, arles & the pays basque

    i think i was sri lankan in a past life

    so i also live there in my heart

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    COLDTOES GALLERY

    COLDTOES IS an ODE TO MY FIRST DAYS OF SURFING

    TO THOSE VERY FIRST INITIAL MINUTES? DAYS? WEEkS?

    WHEN YOU CAN BARELY WALK BECAUSE YOU JUST DISCOVERED FLYING

    WHEN YOU CAN BARELY TALK BECAUSE YOU JUST HEARD THE OCEAN SPEAK

    WHEN YOu're your falling in love

     

    IT WAS late december

    in my homeland, nova scotia

    There was snow on the pine trees, icicles in my hair,

    And my toes were very, VERY COLD

     

    coldtoes gallery is starting with heather.

    It's not the first time I've shown an artist's work

    or produced a show,

    but it is the start of something new

    it's the start of linking my two loves: surfing and art.

    i guess it was only a matter of time until they met.

     

    coldtoes will feature the works of the inspiring surfers & artists

    i meet here and there

    the work not necessarily surf-focused at first glance,

    but from women who are creators

    with a love and AN undeniable need for the water

     

     

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