Need inspiration?
Kitty from artbeatstreet.com wrote me an email and i found myself surfing thru her website for an hour…
The interview section is especially inspiring, how i love to hear stories of everyday people… enjoy!
After all the stress from the last days, its finally done. I will post more about the exhibition later, for now there are some pictures (with my paintings on it of course!) 
For all those out there who like me want to do too many things in a day but never know where to start, i found this very helpful:
Sark’s take home tool for procrastinator, enjoy!
~ Becoming whole is becoming authentic, becoming yourself – whosoever you are, whatsoever you are.
Accept your limitations, accept your imperfections.
That’s what it means to be a human being. ~
Osho
For those who are in hamburg, i will have 4 of my paintings/collage
on exhibition next week.
The vernissage is on sunday the 23th of June, entry is free and everyone will be welcome!
For infos, see the flyer
Let me know if your going to be there!
I got some time today to scan some things out of my holiday scrapbook.
They are both 2 done with watercolor pencil and watercolor painting on (cheap) paper (thats the only thing i had with me!).
more to come…
Shakti Gawain’s living in the light book was quite amazing. After reading creative visualisation twice, i did’nt expected that much from her second book (written in 86, creative visualisation was written in 75, the year i’m born!).
But i must admit the book kept me amazed the whole way. Especially the way she explain how what’s outside of us is reflecting what is in fact inside of us (the world as our mirror), also chapters where she write about work&play and money, issues that make most of us spend lots of time and energy on…
I recommend the book as a daily inspiration, maybe its even better to start by this one and follow it with c.visualisation later.
With all the sickness of the last days, i forgot to mention that the magic author Sark as included CreativeDay in her monthly e letter.
What an honor for me!!! Many thanks!!
The e letter can be found here!
the fundamental skill of a designer is talent. talent is a rare commodity. it’s all intuition. and you can’t teach intuition.
Paul Rand, 1996.
So yeah, i’m back. Not only back in hamburg, but back to my “normal” life (most people would’nt find it so normal but i do).
Normal life means, responsibilities, money worries, life worries, well, all kind of worries you dont really have while on holidays (that’s why holidays are so great!).
I spent wonderful time in montreal, with my friends and family. I thought 17 days would be too long, but in fact it wasn’t! The weather was really nice, sunny and warm, people were nice, and so was the city. I spent lots of time laying at the sun, ate lots of sushi with mel, and got lots of nice talk about life and other stuff with old friends.
I also had this party with schoolmates that i haven’t seen since 10 years, and god, i felt older. In the last year i realized, for the really first time in my life, that i am getting older. Often flashback images came to me, images of event of my life who took place 5, 10, or even 15 years ago. When these images came, it made me realize the time that had gone. It was something like remembering a exibition i made at college and then i thought “wow, this is like yesterday, but hm, its 10 years ago!” and so on.
I remember one night of February when i was falling asleep remembering all the bedrooms i got since i’m born. The first one i got in my yellow baby room, the second one i got until i turned 16 (green with really nice shades who let the sun shine so brightly), then my teenager bedroom with posters all around, and at the same time, the bedroom i got at my dad’s place when my parents got divorced…
After that, i left my hometown to move to montreal, got my first “own” flat with a roommate (which was an awesome illustrator who i thought about a lot in the last months!), then i moved to another flat where i got a huge bedroom, which became my first “atelier”. I had the room splitted in 2 parts, one for the bed and the other to paint. It was really nice when i think about it now…
Then, after those years, i moved with my boyfriend, and the year after we moved together in another flat (we are now at 8 if you are still counting the bedrooms!).
Finally, i moved to germany, and i got 2 different flats here, which gives now 10 bedrooms. Urg, yeah, i am getting older too, and i know i’m wrong, but i put pressure on my life as i see the time pass. Time goes so fast, and human beings are so slow to learn… I know that what i have to learn from this lifetime is patience, this is clear to me. I have at home (i call “home” the place where i’m born, the place where my mom is living) a small statue which says “slowly but surely”, given when i was 7 by the mom of a friend. I guess she knew already a lot about me at that time…
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So yeah, the time spent in montreal was nice, and i did lots of wishes for my 27th birthday. Again, the sky will have a lot to do for me this year!
For now i must rest and put all the plans i made during the holidays aside, because i am sick since im back. I must spend days in bed, which is kind of really hard for me… I hope i get back on my feet soon, then i can see what to do next…
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“..There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it.
It is not your business to deternine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions…”
Martha Graham
“When considering choices in your life, the most alive choice feels like a bit of a risk, makes you giggle, or makes the hairs at the back of your neck stand up…”
Sark
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