We were sketching on Talbot street, all sketching the same shop, Gerry Keane's wallpaper shop. The last independent wallpaper shop in Dublin, and it's closing its doors at the end of the year. It felt nice to pay tribute to it. And it reminded me of the wallpaper that's still in my childhood bedroom, back in Belgium, a big floral pattern in shades of brown. It was modern at the time. And of course as I became a teenager, it was covered in posters - wise words from Snoopy, sunsets, posters from Dublin, and a poster of Neil Diamond when he was young and good-looking! We have no wallpaper at all in our house now, just white walls (just the right shade of white, though, with a slight orange tint to it). But wallpaper does bring back memories more than white walls. Feeling nostalgic!
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