Tubarosa

Text: Tristan Ceddia


For this You & Your Blog we asked Annie Wright to tell us about the world of Tubarosa…

Tubarosa was a character I accidentally made up in about 1999, I was on a weekend away with my ex-boyfriend and some random friends of his who spent two days locked in a cabin with white powder on dinner plates and I couldn’t handle it and escaped into a world of Tuba. I only had one A5 sketch book and a black and a red biro and I filled the book in about a day and a half. Anyway that’s not really got anything to do with blogs as it was so long ago. But it was a sketch book that people would borrow and read, and lots of people took inspiration from it, and it developed a little following amongst friends.

I decided to revisit Tuba about two months ago as I was in desperate need of a hobby. I used to spend all of my free time on the internet looking at other peoples fashion blogs and it was kind of killing me. I became SO bored! I couldn’t believe how authoritative fashion bloggers were trying to be and how un-original and en-masse it all is.

Anyway, I guess I needed a hobby and I wanted to start drawing again. Why I felt this should be a blog and on the internet for the world to see is beyond me. Why can’t it just be my sketch book again? I really don’t know. I guess that’s why I decided to add recipes, as at least this is something that can be shared. Otherwise I do feel very self indulgent and I would never expect other people to look at it, or I should never expect to “get” anything out of it, as seemingly lots of bloggers start out to do. I just wanted to keep myself busy!

Tubarosa