ink & watercolour illustration, 7" x 8.75" [18 x 22.5cm]
You may have twigged by now that I'm an armchair traveller rather than a real traveller ~ at this time, at least. But if I was a traveller, even though I love to pack light,
I'd be tempted to take an entourage of empty vintage ports with me just for the sake of feigning more glamour than I really have. In case you're tut-tutting over my excessive after-dinner drinking habits, tut not.
{My pretentiousness, on the other hand...} A port is one of our words for luggage or suitcase, and in Queensland when my sister and I were growing up, it was also what we called the bag we took to school each day. According to my irreproachable research source, Wikipedia, the term is fading from common use here, but it's derived from the French word
portmanteau, so I just decided I'm going to continue to call my suitcases "ports" forever more. What's more,
it lends a whole new meaning to the expression "Any port in a storm," albeit a senseless one.
In case you're wondering, this illustration was inspired by an interview and photo shoot of Kylie Minogue and a very sweet pug in the November 2009 Australian edition of
InStyle magazine. I took the liberty of wallpapering. I hope they don't mind...
