tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64053431729562719942024-03-14T19:49:08.004+01:00life as a journeyroads, moments, encounters, etc. - Dorothee LangDorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.comBlogger2456125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-61513508343979670992017-11-12T18:12:00.004+01:002019-04-07T19:08:19.939+02:00this blog continues... at blueprint21.de<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I finally put a new version of my website together, it also includes a blog page.<br />
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<br />Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-45472479154415239532017-10-31T09:27:00.001+01:002017-10-31T12:41:46.136+01:00let's get overwhelmed: 2 radars, 2 art trips, un/noticed advice, light shadows, and: not really next station<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6iWQumuHOOz0jthXT6FqNovgKrTlZO5-Jigc3DOch1PPHLWVYn7wqkaWYLs2fn-RM1tmDYaSDWu99nE1-HWtjPuZ71Nc7KXQ3KElibe-0voVDH3z8mMNx7cVcQlnMEH1HSk9fnsStlu5/s1600/blog-oct-06.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6iWQumuHOOz0jthXT6FqNovgKrTlZO5-Jigc3DOch1PPHLWVYn7wqkaWYLs2fn-RM1tmDYaSDWu99nE1-HWtjPuZ71Nc7KXQ3KElibe-0voVDH3z8mMNx7cVcQlnMEH1HSk9fnsStlu5/s1600/blog-oct-06.jpg" /></a><br />
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This is what one of our tutors stated at the introduction day of the art academy. That was 3 weeks ago. And since then, every week has a different, full and multifaceted vibe.<br />
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Right now, I work with several daily creative challenges / practises, to experiment and learn. There are the aquarelle sketches, the digital paintings, and there's photography. Plus: there's the 7 day black/white photo challenge.<br />
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In contrast to my own art/work, there are the art sessions, visiting exhibitions, and generally paying more attention to the perspectives new places hold. Like the unplanned, stunning moment above - looking up, and seeing a curl of multicolored October leaves right above me. All the things that are there, if only we noticed... :)<br />
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Here's a collage/screenshot from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">my Instagram account</a>, and it's symbolic in various ways:<br />
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"Think of it as developing 2 radars", another tutor suggested. "One for all the art that you see, and one for your own inner space, your art/work." </blockquote>
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And so, each day currently has this touch of inner/outer journey. Even more so, when it's connected to a real trip. Like this week, when I took the s-train to Stuttgart, to join an exhbition to the “Wagenhallen”. It’s a
container / art / atelier place. I have never been there. And learned about a new eco ticket while figuring out the route to take - one of the good side effects of going to new places.<br />
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In the train, this sign for the upcoming next station felt like the sign for these days: "Nächste Station:"</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The Wagenhallen, it's a real building with artist studios, which is currently under reconstruction. So the artists suggested to move into temporary housing: containers, in a self-organized settlement on the area There are now about 50 different
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there, too, and wanted us to see the place, and meet one of the resident artists: Gabriela Oberkofler is rather established already, and grew up on an
Austrian alp farm, an “Alm”. Her work is about human life / nature life
balance. It was so inspiring to meet her, and learn from her. Here’s <a href="http://gabrielaoberkofler.de/projekte/rosensteinalm">herwebsite with photos from her temporary home</a> - which is much more than a container.
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The photo class yesterday was more like a lecture this time, about a season of photography, focusing on American photographers who influenced the way of taking photos: Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore...<br />
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Their focus was on documenting everyday life, moments encountered on the street or on the road, without the motivation to change society, but simply to see and admire life in all its facets.<br />
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through books, they call it "Have a nice book", and it works really
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<span lang="EN-GB">Some days ago, I bought a new aquarelle brush, and tried it with a rabbit aquarelle, to find: yes, it really makes a difference. Plus, it was a day of good flow. And so the rabbit currently is my insta post with the most likes. There were also some aquarelles that didn't work out, but that is part of learning. </span></div>
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The week also brought a special highlight: there's a <a href="https://biennalefotografie.de/">photo biennale</a> happening right now, and we went to visit it on Saturday. The biennale consists of 8 exhibitions in 3 cities (Mannheim + Heidelberg + Ludwigshafen), with different themes.<br />
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installation from Olafur Eliasson, a set of lights, and when the visitor walk
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Others were political, about the current migration/refugee situation. And some were really old, from photo archives. Like, when they experimented with night sky star maps, in 1903. Another one was a project with family photo albums from workers who migrated to Germany in the 60ies. And there were new experiments, like <a href="http://barbaraprobst.net/">Barbara Probst</a>'s work from her "Exposure" series: simultanous photos of a scene from different perspectives:<br />
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The work was combined with a serial work from Ed Ruscha, "<a href="http://blogs.getty.edu/pacificstandardtime/explore-the-era/worksofart/every-building-on-the-sunset-strip/">Every building on sunet strip</a>" from '66. A work we had just talked about in the photo class, not knowing it would be presented at the Biennale. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 17.12px;">Of course, there are all the other ongoing things, too - my freelance web work, my friends, my qui gong class, going for walks, the usual household chores etc etc. It's a lot, and yes, it's to some degree overwhelming, but it also is a precious phase, a time of new perspectives and encounters, and of different priorities. And the overlap of themes creates a different, larger flow. Actually, it's not really "next station - next station..", but more a weaving of web of themes, a long, ongoing and interconnected process of art themes, own work, exchanges, not single art times. </span><br />
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<b>Links + More:</b><br />
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For more about me, visit my webpage <a href="http://blueprint21.de/">blueprint21.de</a>.<br />
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For more tiny colourful moments, visit my instapage: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">lifeasjourney</a>.<br />
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Currently participating in the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sevendayschallenge/">#sevendayschallenge</a> and <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.de/">skywatchfriday</a>
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The theme of last week - which was the second week as guest student at the art academy - was: getting my feet wet, and moving into a first flow.<br />
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The October sun was welcoming, and framed almost each day with its touch of lightness. So the photo above is kind of symbolic for the week: standing at the edge of light and water. And then taking the next step. Like in the painting course. The first week was about getting to the know our tutor, and getting an idea of the upcoming themes and lessons, and the material we need, like: aquarelle colors and paper etc.<br />
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From the first exercises, we moved to: vegetables. The traditional starting objects.<br />
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At some point, a group formed around a table with our tutor, as he looked at work, and made a sample painting. He also gave a good advise:<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">So that's what I am doing now. And indeed start to feel a bit more confident with each painting. The aubergine is from day 2, and the mushroom is from day 4 - it's all learning how to trust the lightness of the color, the way it shapes out when trying. </span><br />
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<b>From painting to photography:</b><br />
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Different medium, but a similar constellation. With the rise of digital photography, there is an abundance of photo created each day. But the technical aspect, the way the camera - or we - can work with light when taking a photo - is more and more moved into the background.<br />
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The photo course I am taking is both about visiting the work of photographers, but also learning the technical basics of photography. This time, we took a quick trip into the past, with a large format camera, which shows how cameras work . It takes photos directly on a plate, and simply shows the
"upside-down"-image when you look through it, and leads back to the first cameras, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura">camera obscura</a>.<br />
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There is a good photography-series, recommended for the course: "BBC -Genius of photography". It's
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<b>From photography to drawing:</b><br />
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<b></b>Inspired by the sketchbook / drawingbooks of some of the others, and by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/inktober/">#inktober</a>, I did a series of daily ink sketches, that was before moving to aquarelle. Here's one of them: </div>
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I also visited a drawing class just to get an idea of it. I
had expected that we make sketches, and brought my drawing block, which is
DinA3, and feels "big" for me. But this season, the course is about large formats.<br />
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The tutor brought several art books, showed us works of artists, some small, some larger.
And then we went to drawing. "I want you to dive into the large format, to
really try to use this dimension", he explained.<br />
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A day later, I tried a new version of one of my digital color paintings, and then had to smile: the "overlap" patterns of the ink sketches, they probably started there.<br />
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<b>Black/White Sevendayschallenge </b><br />
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To have a contrast to all the color, and a challenge for photography - and as I keep coming across it - I now joined the black/white <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sevendayschallenge/">#sevendayschallenge</a>:<br />
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Here's my first photo. I noticed it when looking through images - it actually is a color image, but is almost entirely black/white. I will post on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">my instagram page</a>, which currently is a fun mix of photography, aquarelle, skies... a good mix.<br />
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<b>Upcoming + Lessons in learning to look</b><br />
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Looking forward to the next days. I even looked forward to this Monday. It's a good feeling: to be excited about the things that are upcoming. Like a smaller group trip in the middle of the week, and a daytrip to a photo exhbition on Saturday (we go here: <a href="https://biennalefotografie.de/">Photo Biennale</a> für Aktuelle Fotografie)<br />
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Of course, the week had highlights beyond the art academy classes, too - but right now, the impulses from there feel formative for the season - not so much the single moments and themes, but the way they connect and open up new perspectives.<br />
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I am still taking my morning sky photos, though :)<br />
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Altogether, I would say that the time there, it's about learning to look in a different way - to take a closer look, to try different perspectives. And there is a multi-layered feeling, I tried to catch it in 6 words:<br />
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<b>Links + More:</b><br />
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For more about me, visit my webpage <a href="http://blueprint21.de/">blueprint21.de</a>.<br />
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For more tiny colourful moments, visit my instapage: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">lifeasjourney</a>.<br />
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Currently participating in the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sevendayschallenge/">#sevendayschallenge</a> and <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.de/">skywatchfriday</a></div>
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It's this time of year again: summer fading and autumn entering in yellow days. Which can turn a simple drive to the supermarket into a visual spectacle. The photo? It's right from the supermarket parking spot. A boring place when it's overcast and busy. But yesterday was sunny - so I delayed the drive, and arrived there in this unplanned perfect tree-light-shadow moment.<br />
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More sun-inspired images: the sky cleared during Friday, and in the evening, we went for a walk at sunset time. I didn't have my camera, which probably was a good thing, as this gave me an instant opportunity to follow the advice of my new art teacher:<br />
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And yes! I have a new art teacher. Or rather: several new art teachers. Since Monday, I am guest student at the Nürtingen art academy. I woke up early on Monday morning, with the Elton John song playing in my mind: “It’s a little bit funny, this feeling inside….”<br />
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And parallel with that, the 4 words of advice opened up: “enjoy more, worry less”. I guess it’s not just accidentally that I put the visual together last week: it’s my subconscious leading.
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At the art academy, the rough plan is that I can take two courses as guest student and go to some of the art talks. In the course of this week, I became a first idea of everything: the place, the tutors, the other students, the atmosphere... In the next 2-3 weeks I can try different courses, and then make a definite decision which ones I will join.<br />
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"What will you learn?" - a friend asked. Smile. I don’t really know yet. I initially went there thinking that I will take a painting course, then met the photography tutor - and realized that would be a pretty interesting class for me, too. The good thing is: I don't have to choose upfront, but can get a first idea of the different classes in the first 2 week. Right now, it looks like I will pick the painting course, and the photography course. They both combine of technical / theoeretical / and practical elements.<br />
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There also is more space than I expected for students to bring in themes, and to look at art together, to talk and reflect on viewpoints on art. There are also joined museum visits planned. So I hope, it’s kind of a multi-layered learning and getting-to-know and hopefully good encounters with others.
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In the last weeks, I playfully browsed my bookshelves to see which books on art I own, and came across this one again:<br />
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I bought it last year, in Cologne, at the Gamescom-weekend. I was there for some meet-ups on Friday and to go to the fair, and had some time to also visit the Cologne museum. Which has a bookstore. I remember how I saw the book, and picked it up, put it down again. Read the text on the back: 36 'tutors' share their experience, wisdom, techniques + philosophies on art + life.<br />
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It's a heavy book, and I knew I would have to carry it - but I also knew that it's a book for me. So I bought it. Now it feels like a hint to myself. Nice parallel: the tutors in the book are artists. Much like at the art academy. Same with some of the notions expressed in the book. Here's a quote from the book, from Olafur Eliasson, that gives an idea (the full text is <a href="http://www.artspace.com/magazine/news_events/book_report/akademie-x-olafur-eliasson-52744">up at Artspace</a>, and a PDF of his full contribution to the book is <a href="http://raumexperimente.net/2015/content/uploads/2015/03/love_letter_from_us_2015.pdf">up at Raumexperimente</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">"We try to learn how to learn, so we learn where we have to go by going. We evaluate and critique ourselves along the way, and together, and always, and all ways. We invite other artists and practitioners to think and do with us. We believe in risking vulnerability and practicing in the robust discomfort of uncertainty. A shared vulnerability is important. We believe in getting out of our comfort zone.</span><span style="background-color: white;">.... </span><span style="background-color: white;">School is not a place for a safe enclosure of lessons. School is an amplifier for the world. Lessons are not fixed ahead of time or they become rules. Dogmatic. Concrete. Belaboured. The syllabus is written after the course ends. The course is endless. ... </span><span style="background-color: white;">Everyone participating shapes the lesson, makes the lesson more, makes the lesson on."</span></span></blockquote>
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<b>From art.. to Frankfurt bookfair, and to the ARTs </b><br />
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After the introduction at the art academy, I went and packed my bag, as the Frankfurt Bookfair was waiting. I probably would have skipped it, but my aunt lives near Frankfurt, and so it's a good occasion to meet up. Plus, since last year, the bookfair has a focus area on art, too. Plus, as it turned out, there is an art exhibition on in Frankfurt, recommended by the photo tutor. "So I try to fit that in, too," I thought. And learned: once you start looking for options, you might just find new ways to approach things.<br />
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To avoid morning traffic, and to have more time, I drove to Frankfurt in the afternoon and arrived in time for dinner at my aunt's place. The next morning, I was at the bookfair before 10 - a good time to start. There was a talk about the trends and future of self publishing and how there are more and more "hybrid" authors and also publishers, which are active both in a traditional way, but also as self publishers. That was pretty interesting as starting point.<br />
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A theme I looked for were: comics, as I blogged from there for myComics, with suggestions where to go for comic readers and artists. The <a href="http://mycomicsde.blogspot.de/2017/10/tipps-fur-die-buchmesse-cartoonpreis.html">blog post with a lot of book fair pics</a> is up here, in German.<br />
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And I went to the ARTs section - it wasn't crowded yet, and one of the unexpected highlights for me was the Google Education booth, they showed their Virtual Reality / 360°view headset learning program, it was so interesting to try that and get an idea. And there was a virtual ride in the next booth, a visit to Venice. I didn't even have to wait for that.<br />
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Plus, there were interesting talks, and author interviews.. it is really more about the interaction than the books itself. My mobile phone put a video together with the photos of that day, it gives a good idea of the sights and themes:<br />
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From the fair, I took the s-train to Frankfurt city, and enjoyed the contrast: from book fair to the real city, and then to the Schirn museum. The exhibitionI visited was: <a href="http://www.schirn.de/en/exhibitions/2017/diorama/">"Diorama - the Cultural History of Vision"</a>.<br />
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(Frankfurt centre "Römer" with guerilla knitting, the Schirn museum is in the background.)<br />
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Here's the definition of Diorama: "it can<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> either refer to a 19th-century mobile theatre device, or, in modern usage, a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum. Dioramas are often built by hobbyists as part of related hobbies" </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diorama" style="font-family: inherit;">Wiki-article</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">)</span><br />
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The base idea of it, especially when showing artefacts in museums, is to give visual context. And our main focus of perception is: visual. We tend to think that what we see is more or less the reality.<br />
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But if you move the focus on the process of how to create dioramas - or portraits, or advertising photos etc. etc. - you start to see that of course, they often aren't "simple" reality, but tend to be a staged version of objects.<br />
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Even when we "just take a photo", we pick the frame of it with our camera. In some ways, each photo is a "diorama", a box of visual content that is part of a larger setting.<br />
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It was a rather different, and rather thought-provoking exhibition.<br />
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The Schirn museum is right in the city centre of Frankfurt. I went to a café there afterwards, and saw the sign of another exhibition that picks up the visual theme, too: <a href="https://www.fkv.de/de/content/perception-reality-%C3%BCber-die-konstruktion-von-wirklichkeit-und-virtuelle-welten">"Perception is Reality - On the construction of Reality and Virtual Worlds"</a>: "The invited artists will examine the new conditions of human perception in relation to technically constructed realities. As one of the first exhibition houses in Germany, the Frankfurter Kunstverein will integrate a new forward-looking medium, virtual reality, into a contemporary art exhibition."<br />
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<b>T</b><b>he art of juggling art + other times </b><br />
Altogether, the week was an intense one, but full of impressions and newness. And the weekend was summer-like, with space to reflect and to revisit, and to just be. Looking at the past week, and the upcoming one, a thought surfaced again:<br />
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That for me, the way to juggle the different themes probably is: by combining them. like: combining the trip to the bookfair with a visit to my aunt, and a visit to the museum.<br />
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The theme that was missing this week, though, was: writing, especially preparing for Nanowrimo. But hopefully, there will be more space for words next week. Well, and I wrote 2 longer mails, with reflections, and this weekly blog post - I just counted, it's 1500 words (hello nano-wordcounts..)<br />
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I already look forward to the upcoming days.<br />
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<b>Links + More:</b><br />
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For more about me, visit my webpage <a href="http://blueprint21.de/">blueprint21.de</a>.<br />
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For more tiny colourful moments, visit my instapage: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">lifeasjourney</a>.<br />
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This blog post is part of <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.de/">skywatchfriday</a>, because I really like skies.
Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-34431633514096847542017-10-08T19:57:00.002+02:002017-10-09T06:37:43.278+02:00October: horizons, nano writing plans, storm roses, enjoy more & Frankfurt bookfair + documenta clips<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaznTKHU5FnQ9GGNbsGa-v3hHt-JcwfxMesXFRQCcIKbzYhBXatgkgIpmT4Yz8_1hqGkNTTlskhVOnywOsPDCyr0UMNCvvXxYySTk6R00vBBvJOZfDsw0ACjLcGOtpKBw6JQNi__o5VN5E/s1600/aftertherain-773541.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6474581908709957442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaznTKHU5FnQ9GGNbsGa-v3hHt-JcwfxMesXFRQCcIKbzYhBXatgkgIpmT4Yz8_1hqGkNTTlskhVOnywOsPDCyr0UMNCvvXxYySTk6R00vBBvJOZfDsw0ACjLcGOtpKBw6JQNi__o5VN5E/s400/aftertherain-773541.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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Back home. I am typing this while October rain is falling. But it is good to be home. We were so lucky with the weather in Spain, with sunny days, the colourful and beautiful places of Mallorca. Only our last island day was cloudy, like a bridge to the autumn that waited back in Germany.<br />
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Such a difference, the island time and the water horizon. It brought space to pause, to reflect, and to spin ideas.<br />
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One idea that took shape there: maybe taking part in the <a href="https://nanowrimo.org/">National Novel Writing Month</a> in November. And writing the book I have in mind since I went through the cancer diagnosis and treatments and recovery.<br />
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I feel, now would be a good time with some distance to it, looking more at the larger themes, the time of going through treatments but also the time afterwards. The focus would be on reflections and advice, things that can help, practical advice and emotional, too.<br />
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The idea shaped through the previous challenges, the 100 days and the 30 paintings – the way such a challenge brings energy and connects with others who are going through the ups and downs of creative challenges, too. Plus, in summer, a friend told me about a book she has written and is editing. Of course I was curious – and she sent me the edited version to read in Mallorca. She had written the first draft during Nanowrimo last year. And talking with her about it brought the theme up of joining again. And made me look at the nano page – they actually have a preparing month now, “Nanoprep”, for figuring out what to write, and for outlining and plotting. There are a lot of blog posts and youtube clips going online now with advice. It feels inspiring.
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So step by step things start to take shape. I now have a nano-pinboard :)<br />
And I started to follow some of the hashtags: #preptober #nanowrimo...<br />
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The plan to write also takes the edge of the upcoming colder and darker season: windy and rainy is good writing and reading weather. The garden here is still colorful, though, and my "storm roses" - the ones I once got as gift from a flowershop, as they had been damaged by a storm and couldn't be sold anymore - they are happily in bloom, I took the photo after October storm Xavier moved through.<br />
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What also is happily in bloom: my daily digital paintings. I paused during the island time, and thought they found an ending point, but now I am back to them. It turned into a good, colorful ritual: playing with shapes and shades at the end of the day.<br />
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This is the latest one, from this evening. Inspired by a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154923323542197&set=a.10153227832787197.1073741834.718812196&type=3&theater">tiny big facebook challenge</a>: "Share your best advice in 4 words or less. - I am curious for responses. What four words of advice would you give me?"<br />
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My 4 words are the reminder i wrote once on my little travel diary, and since then, note down before each journey, as I tend to do the opposite sometimes: worrying about all that might go wrong, especially on a trip, instead of enjoying the present moment. :)<br />
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Next week, a short trip waits for me: I will visit the Frankfurt Bookfair again. Looking forward. Last year, the visit brought a good suprise: while I was there, an art project of the upcoming Dokumenta was presented - which gave the impulse for me to finally go and visit the Documenta in Kassel. </div>
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Here's the memory from last year:<br />
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<b><a href="http://virtual-notes.blogspot.de/2016/10/frankfurt-bookfair-2016-snapshots-arts.html">Frankfurt Bookfair 2016: Snapshots, The Arts, documenta, forbidden books, a poetic shore + a personal reflection</a></b><br />
..... "The Parthenon of Books" is an art project that will be shown in 2017 in Kassel at the documenta, and which now officially gets started: The argentinian artist Marta Minujín is collecting books from forbidden and persecuted authors for it."<br />
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And here's the youtube-clip that I put together after visiting the Documenta this summer, with the Parthenon of books as intro image. (or rather, that my smartphone put together, i just edited it a bit. interesting how it picked the images and combination):<br />
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Actually, there are 2 more videos... ah, all those moments: <br />
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Day 2: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=PSpoQthgkq4">Green people are a recent invention</a><br />
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<b>Links + More:</b><br />
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For more about me, visit my webpage <a href="http://blueprint21.de/">blueprint21.de</a>.<br />
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For more tiny colourful moments, visit my instapage: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">lifeasjourney</a>.<br />
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This blog post is part of <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.de/">skywatchfriday</a>, because I really like skies.
Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-40178481144840870332017-10-01T15:41:00.001+02:002017-10-01T16:19:55.853+02:00island skies, October, sun/lightness, natural art, Miro, Matisse + journeys that don't end<div class="mobile-photo">
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It's the first of October today. Hadn't thought of it when booking the trip, but it somehow fits that the time here leads from September to October, from summer to autumn.
We were so lucky with the weather, which turned the time here into days filled with light and ease. Returnint to this place and bay here in the North of Mallorca, it is a bit like having a holiday apartment somewhere, where you know the place and easily step into “relax and enjoy” mode.
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What also is lovely: since a year, they have a new wellness area, with warm water pool and water massage, sauna and steambath.. and we go there every evening at 7. It is so relaxing. The whole holiday feels a bit like a Mediterranean wellness time with pool time, beach walks, terrace breakfast, wellness time, reading time, good sleep..<br />
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...and with art moments. Like finding this piece of natural art at the bay. Creating a cairn - a stone tower - at sunset. Reading the Matisse biography in this southern light he enjoyed, too.<br />
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And: Miro. On Saturday, I went to the <a href="https://www.miromallorca.com/index.php?Idi=2&Cod_fam=&Cod_sub=">Miro foundation in Palma,</a> which combines a museum and his atelier. Such a special place.<br />
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From there, it's just a 10 minute drive to the museum of modern art, Es Baluard. It's a stunning place, with an art rooftop with view:<br />
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Next to the museum is a park, a good place to rest and enjoy.<br />
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Being here, it feels timeless. Some more single moments: Reading in José Saramago's journey book. It's not the right book for me right now, but it lead me to reading journey quotes:</div>
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"A journey never ends." ― Jose Saramago<br />
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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen<br />
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“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― Anaïs Nin<br />
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This joy of walking barefoot in sand and waves, together.<br />
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Some final pool time: reading the last chapter of the Matisse biography, and revisiting Winnie the Pooh.<br />
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<b>Links + More:</b><br />
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For more about me, visit my webpage <a href="http://blueprint21.de/">blueprint21.de</a>.<br />
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For more tiny colourful moments, visit my instapage: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">lifeasjourney</a>.<br />
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This blog post is part of <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.de/">skywatchfriday</a>, because I really like skies.Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-67216567785952610382017-09-25T12:53:00.001+02:002017-09-25T17:26:05.490+02:00From autumn to island time: in transit, a puzzle of memories, and on photography<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgGfuipKVaqsH1x8QZGuS7i3R4SMoij0WnotpEsFT4_SBsAlJp9CST3Nzd378WkXzigzY1IPdc-IkVDe3WELUFHVG42SawPksMy8YzQzwHzOY-jHGUB1ixgmx8A_dLZYjbH9auaRarKNy_/s1600/IMG_0923-731363.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6469667428437686594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgGfuipKVaqsH1x8QZGuS7i3R4SMoij0WnotpEsFT4_SBsAlJp9CST3Nzd378WkXzigzY1IPdc-IkVDe3WELUFHVG42SawPksMy8YzQzwHzOY-jHGUB1ixgmx8A_dLZYjbH9auaRarKNy_/s400/IMG_0923-731363.JPG" width="400" /></a>
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The last week was long, intense, and colorful: the week before leaving on a journey. Last Sunday, I drove to the Alb for an autumn walk, and for a larger horizon before diving in the long list of things that waited to be done yet.
"Lucky weather" I thought while looking at the forecast: there were rainy days upcoming, which brought the right mood to stay at the desk and just keep working and getting things done and organized. Even things I had postponed since weeks.<br />
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"Keep on keeping on" was my mantra for those days. And even though it was tiring, after that week, on Friday, it felt good to arrive at this milestone. I packed my bags while feeling an ease of things done, and not waiting after the island time.<br />
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Our flight was Friday afternoon, and at noon I felt: the journey is beginning now: the doorbell rang, and a friend dropped by to say hi. We could sit outside, and the red cat joined us. It was a feeling of: yes, now the tide moves to: Journey. Enjoy. Encounter. Relax.<br />
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And then the journey started for real, in a new way: taking the new express airport bus. Walking to the bus stop brought this curved sky moment:<br />
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The feeling of being in transit, it also inspired the digital painting / visual that I put together before leaving. As always, when going on a journey (even when it's just a shorter one), there is this part of me that can't wait to go. And this other part of me that wants to stay. Same goes for the other end of the journey: a part of me wants to keep travelling, another longs for the comforts of home.<br />
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The lines in the visual - like almost all the other lines of the previous ones - are a revisit. This time a special one: i looked for "transit" notes in my blog, and arrived at a poem that my friend and poet Rose Hunter once wrote, based on lines of my story collection "in transit". Here's the whole poem - such a good puzzle of memories:<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">The Perfect
Plan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rose Hunter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">re/ visit
/cycle /turn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">all the
spaces those<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">cubes have
created<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">like flocks
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<span lang="EN-GB">a
concentric wave would<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">run to the
sides without anyone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">interrupting
it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">the
changing of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">places, the
changing of skies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">all that is
missing now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">you have to
pretend you don't feel how<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">we can
learn lessons then<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">forget them
again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">they are 10
cent a piece<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">against
expectations, this idea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">of days of
space this promise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">to see and
think and think and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">see, until
it makes sense -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">his breath<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">at the edge
of the ocean<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">this almost
tenderness -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">the train
doesn't mind, it moves on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">returning
me to where I came<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">from,
closing the circle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">and I want
to go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and I want to stay <o:p></o:p></div>
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(<a href="http://virtual-notes.blogspot.com.es/2010/05/in-transit-in-mexico.html">the perfect plan, rose hunter</a>)</div>
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From transit day to first island day: we arrived in the late evening, which felt a bit odd as arrival time. But they still has dinner for us, and it was just lovely to wake up on Saturday, and realize: we are here. At the ocean. With a full week of island time waiting.<br />
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I probably took similar photos during one of the previous stays, but each day here is different. And it's and to catch the moments, and post them on instagram - see the flow of images there, my own and the ones of others with similar hashtags.<br />
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Here's the link to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/"><b>my instagram page</b></a>.<br />
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Photography... is also the theme of the book I am reading: "On Photography" by Susan Sontag. A thought-provoking book. It's from 1977, but almost reads like written for our time with all the mobile phone photos. </div>
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mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">In contrast to all the thoughts, there was this simple sign that felt like a guide to island time, and to life in general:</span><br />
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<b>Links + More:</b><br />
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For more about me, visit my webpage <a href="http://blueprint21.de/">blueprint21.de</a>.<br />
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For more tiny colourful moments, visit my instapage: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">lifeasjourney</a>.<br />
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This blog post is part of <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.de/">skywatchfriday</a>, because I really like skies, home skies and foreign skies :)</div>
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light. So I took a photo, to catch the beauty of that unexpected sight, and posted it on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">my instagram page</a> later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It's one of the changes this year brought: I took a bit of pause from social media this spring and summer, from facebook and twitter, and even from my blog. Yet <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/the100dayproject/">the 100 day project </a>brought me to instagram, and I like how it both is simple yet connects easily with a theme or keyword, especially for a creative challenge like the 100 days....</div>
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...or currently for the "passioncolorjoy" challenge, the task is to create 30 colorful paintings in 30 days. Hashtag is <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/pcj30in30/">#pcj30in30</a>. I came across it through instagram right at the start of September, as one of the participants of the 100 days joined it. For me, it started a new cycle of daily creativity: revisiting micropoems from previous
months, and combining them with new digital color sketches. Here's one from this week, also catching up on the feeling of seasons changing. I have started a hashtag for all of them, which indeed turned rather colorful so far: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/pcj30in30dl/">pcj30in30dl </a></div>
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<b>Reflecting the days</b><br />
Since its start, I thought of blogging about it, too. Also, I thought of blogging about the books I am reading. And the art places I went to.... yet I didn't know where to start. Putting a blog post together for each them felt too much. Plus, the instagram posts already include some of the topics. And I like how they are more spontaneous, "live from the moment". That in the evening, it's not like: and now to write a blog
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So I thought: I might try a longer post each week, a reflection of the week. With some impressions, places I've been to, a sky moment, a note on the books I am reading. And with links - which insta isn't very helpful with. Also, putting the themes of the week together in a collected poscreates a space for reflection. And it might lead to noticing some cross-connections. Like this one:<br />
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This week, I met up with friends for a coffee, and also to visit a local gallery. the exhibition had the title "Situation colorful", and we looked forward to that on a rainy day. The gallery windows were covered with color sheets, so we couldn't see inside. Full of anticipation, we walked in - into an empty room. Turned out, the installation indeed was the color-decorated window front.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">The curious thing was that while being there, it didn't look so special, neither from inside or outside. The artist, <a href="http://www.tinahaase.de/">Tina Haase</a>, is working with everyday materials - and the colour patches actually are household rubbish-bags from all kind of places. I took some photos, and when looking at them, that's when it started to look really interesting.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This week was rather windy and rainy altogether, yet with some half hours of sun in between. I am glad my
work is so flexible that I can make a pause when the sun is out - which brought
a lovely book moment yesterday, a book that I have since a while, but only started to read now - it has the unusual title: </span>"The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet". Turns out, it is unusual: multi-cultural science fiction, and one of the "heroes" is a clerk... it's described as "A science fiction novel that explores humanity's intergalactic future through the eyes of the everyman." It's told from shifiting perspectives. The author is <a href="https://www.otherscribbles.com/">Becky Chambers</a> - my fav quote
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<span lang="EN-GB">The other book I am reading is rather rough, it's <a href="http://www.mycomics.de/comic/10142-bataclan.html">"Bataclan"</a> by Fred Dewilde, a survivor of the 2015 terror attacks on the Bataclan club and other places in Paris. . I received an extract of it as part of my freelance jobs, to upload it - it's here (in German): Bataclan. The book is</span> part graphic novel, part autobiography. And with the news of yesterday, the attack in London, it is painfully topical. <br />
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Ending this post... with a photo of a sculpture, a group balancing act, by artist <a href="http://www.karl-ulrich-nuss.de/pfad.html">Fritz Nuss</a>, an artist from this region. So much like life, I thought.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">And a quote that spoke to me this week - a mistake wish from <a href="http://journal.neilgaiman.com/">Neil Gaiman</a>:</span><br />
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"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever."</blockquote>
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For more about me, visit my webpage <a href="http://blueprint21.de/">blueprint21.de</a>.<br />
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For more tiny colourful moments, visit my instapage: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">lifeasjourney</a>.<br />
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Saturday: Today brought sun and rain and sun and thunder... and a beautiful sign: we went up to Timmelsjoch, an alpine pass. There's a crystal up there, as hope and sign for world peace. So here's a wish, for peace , and sunny skies.
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Ötztal-Bike-Marathon 2017 - Start of 4500 participants!
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Sunday morning in the mountains - taking the "Sessellift" in Vent.<br />
Blue skies and views opening.
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Up at 2235 meter altitude.<br />
A sunwarmed bench, a dream of flying.<br />
Stone paths and stoic cows.
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Gigijjochbahn Sölden.<br />
The view, like a reflection on natural monuments + human monuments.<br />
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the timeless + rough
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Mountain balance: creating a stone cairne.<br />
Looking up, a flock of crows:<br />
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Trail statue: the winged guardian angel of all who wander....<br />
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Cherry cake at the Gigijoch alpine cafe at 2.238 metres<br />
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A different monday: driving back home from the mountains along a scenic route: via the "Fernpass", past the "Zugspitze". This feeling of open roads, of possibility.<br />
And a quote: "One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure".<br />
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More moments: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">instagram/lifeasjourney</a><br />
More skies from around the world: <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.de/">skywatch friday</a><br />
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Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-57138297358042936192017-08-23T15:15:00.000+02:002017-08-23T15:15:00.805+02:00mountain memory, mountains to come<i>This is a memory from August 2015. Good to read this as I am packing for a short trip to the mountain</i>s.<br />
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<i>5 days in the mountains. I took about two hundred photos, but didn't really log into the web for the time out there, and didn't write, not even diary notes. I was just out there, after this long time of being caught in an endless list of doctor appointments and treatment dates. Yet coming back, I wrote this note:</i><br />
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Open time, or rather: this open feeling of timelessness. Breakfast on the terrace. Roads we never took before. Feeling like a beginner again, arriving in a new place.<br />
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It is so good to be in France, at this lake surrounded by mountains, and then driving into the higher mountains. Being out there, in places where time is flowing slower, and the news of the world more distant.<br />
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There’s a different tune of feelings in me, after the days that I went through. In the days that I am in now. All this sun. The open horizon. And then, finally: rain. Which is okay, too: it belongs to this landscape. I stop to watch clouds, the way they move. And see an eagle, soaring up there, in this valley of larger dimensions. <br />
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The pass is foggy, but just minutes later, in the valley towards Briancon, the skies clear. I think of the breakfast conversation: “It’s raining but it’s a good day. Every day without doctor date is a good day.”<br />
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This feeling of freedom. I could catch a plane and fly to New York for some days, if I wanted to. Could just do it. And the thought: I should do it, at some point. Do those things I tend to postpone. Make time for them. <br />
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Because you never can know. <br />
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A sky that was all about the future: sunset at the wedding day of a friend.<br />
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A moment from my short trip to Cologne, same time, last year. came across this scribbled note again that made me remember:<br />
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<i>Cologne Dome.</i><br />
<i>Old stones.</i><br />
<i>Young people.</i><br />
<i>Future and past, </i><br />
<i>on a stairway.</i><br />
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And a sky from last weekend: a touch of autumn in summer: harvested fields.<br />
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more skies: <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.de/">skywatch friday</a><br />
more moments from august: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">augustbreak2017</a><br />
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<br />Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-2988656569532003292017-08-18T18:27:00.001+02:002017-08-18T20:59:11.318+02:00Digivibe / Procreate <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMURY1kQD4DSAY2izuqIytqJMlidAErhWG9PL4WRnqk20D1x4YF-9UhDSiOzUdobexi5ot5OFwoWcbBlGAqMVwr0wR522CValWP8zuu-oY6FYMahsQahKLnGhNUE3PMyh5MVWo7Q_mhw8h/s1600/procreat2-digivibe.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMURY1kQD4DSAY2izuqIytqJMlidAErhWG9PL4WRnqk20D1x4YF-9UhDSiOzUdobexi5ot5OFwoWcbBlGAqMVwr0wR522CValWP8zuu-oY6FYMahsQahKLnGhNUE3PMyh5MVWo7Q_mhw8h/s1600/procreat2-digivibe.jpg" /></a><br />
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"Digivibe”, or: my first steps of trying the Procreate-paint-app.<br />
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Colorfun :)<br />
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Here's a tutorial that I found helpful:<br />
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and here are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q68S-VKIQLU">Tutorial 2</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH-q6naBcvg">Tutorial 3</a><br />
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<br />Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-46662659381161379322017-08-14T20:44:00.001+02:002017-08-14T22:05:54.838+02:00Glass Postcard Lavender Eyes <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7O0Hx0AAhCrfwarDfEQ13WGZ6LuWpXt4JNerCU7iz0TviK-5NOVOeKmcDC-DR1r1AxYIwZ5iT6_tRes3_KXKj4PrMcmr_rtINDhTo4aEhTHHfWQryRN-VXkLalnFGZlPuy8RegNyCrgeK/s1600/insta-mandala-pieces-of-me-blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7O0Hx0AAhCrfwarDfEQ13WGZ6LuWpXt4JNerCU7iz0TviK-5NOVOeKmcDC-DR1r1AxYIwZ5iT6_tRes3_KXKj4PrMcmr_rtINDhTo4aEhTHHfWQryRN-VXkLalnFGZlPuy8RegNyCrgeK/s1600/insta-mandala-pieces-of-me-blog.jpg" /></a><br />
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August in all kinds of colours. It's interesting how the daily themes of #augustbreak turn the month more vivid. How once you start looking for something, it pops up in unexpected places in the following days. like: lavender, gold, glass.... <br />
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EYES: This is one of my fav “selfies”: an experimental mirror photo, took it in an art exhibition.<br />
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GLASS: glass ceiling moment – this is in Stuttgart, in a new mall called “Dorotheen Quartier”. Funny to walk into a place with the same name like mine. loved the moment of looking up and seeing the glass dome, and the red balloons in it.<br />
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POSTCARDS: “We could make unique postcards while here in Vienna!” – That’s the idea a friend and I had. Colorful fun, and before sending, we took a photo. A good memory.<br />
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LAVENDER: – it grows just some steps away, right in the garden here. Took the photo yesterday while it was still sunny. Today it’s all rainy. Which is good for the garden, at least...<br />
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Visit <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">my instagram page</a> for more august moments : )<br />
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<br />Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-60853778669778209252017-08-06T17:30:00.001+02:002017-08-07T06:46:06.874+02:00#augustbreak <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4q0Amd95ugEC6YfSuaByJACmc1Whuxo98JNty-bUt388zBt3rxciDKbHj8d3CypuiEXaE0tK1ngDP5H9b3GB4IdUlTPNtUXDsazNYnzUxG647QUE0_Yl_6ysaBT1mBKHmx9jEJ__068f9/s1600/day1_Blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4q0Amd95ugEC6YfSuaByJACmc1Whuxo98JNty-bUt388zBt3rxciDKbHj8d3CypuiEXaE0tK1ngDP5H9b3GB4IdUlTPNtUXDsazNYnzUxG647QUE0_Yl_6ysaBT1mBKHmx9jEJ__068f9/s1600/day1_Blog.jpg" /></a><br />
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<i>sunrise now at 6 </i><br />
<i>with an early cloud</i><br />
<i>just in the right place for sunbeams</i><br />
<i>hello august! </i><br />
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This is how my August started on Tuesday morning. I was double-happy about the sunrise, as it felt like a light gift from the sky for <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/augustbreak2017/"><b>#augustbreak2017</b></a>, a photo challenge for August. It's theme for the first day: "morning".<br />
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#augustbreak is an open and inspiring daily summer photo challenge, organized by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/susannahconway/">Susannah Conway</a>. It started on the first, but there are no fixed dates to post - the main idea is to make august a month of paying a bit more attention, and to share some of the summer moments. I am joining at instagram, here's my page: <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">instagram/@ lifeasjourney</a></b><br />
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I try to catch new photos, here are 2 of my favs so far: "Roses" and "Where I live"<br />
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<i>Roses… are magic. Especially at sunset time. </i><br />
<i>These ones are flowering in the frontyard here, every summer, since I can remember. </i><br />
<i>Wish they could talk.</i><br />
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<i>No place like… home. This is where I live: a town in Southern Germany, not far from Stuttgart, but far enough to be in walking distance to fields and forest. The view in the photo is part of our usual evening walk.
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more skies: <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.de/">skywatch friday</a> /<br />
more august moments: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/augustbreak2017/">#augustbreak2017</a><br />
<i><br /></i>Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-15380313569161212342017-07-23T17:22:00.002+02:002017-07-23T17:22:34.768+02:00bird sky, storm sky, sunset sky We had a weekend of all kind of weathers and places: from sunny skies to cloudy to thunderstorms moving through. Here are some highlights, the first 3 are from a short trip to the Black Forest:<br />
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On the way, near the spring of the Danube river, we saw a group of huge birds circling, maybe 20. Coming closer, we noticed it’s storks. It looked like a gathering – maybe they are flying with their youngsters? I caught a photo but only with 2 of them.<br />
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In the black forest it first was sunny – and then clouds moved in. From route and wind direction we figured it might work out with the route we had planned, but it was a gamble.<br />
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At the ending point of our tour, up at Kandel hill, we had a stunning view of the weather around us, and could sit watching weather fronts… and we had about 10 minutes there, then rain started to fall, finally catching us. Back home, I wrote a micropoem to catch that feeling of this day:<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A day in the black forest </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">this different flow of time </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">a bench, a way / the sky </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">simple, huge moments
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The mixed weather repeated its cycle yesterday. We were mostly lucky again. In the evening we were invited to a garden party, which brought a stunning sunset, and another micropoem:<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Garden party </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">with sky magic </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">strings of colored clouds </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">strings of music
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more skies: <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.de/">sky friday</a><br />
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<br />Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-35197397604018210532017-07-23T16:14:00.001+02:002017-07-23T16:14:01.816+02:00form turning seasons<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Ps0CFDCaEKyt4za00rpKlGHf0978Q51ay-PnDfieoZR1ouQweJzGNXe33v7AnnWcIaI8Ek7SCGehcir_09jIpHQwtXUgllZIVXPE1NBEB8uid3RkvLwvzncYJplfa6JOPfjwXS3rHTmt/s1600/erasure-poem-like-flow.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Ps0CFDCaEKyt4za00rpKlGHf0978Q51ay-PnDfieoZR1ouQweJzGNXe33v7AnnWcIaI8Ek7SCGehcir_09jIpHQwtXUgllZIVXPE1NBEB8uid3RkvLwvzncYJplfa6JOPfjwXS3rHTmt/s1600/erasure-poem-like-flow.jpg" /></a><br />
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a memory from July 2017:<br />
an erasure poem that I once played with in folds and photographs. I didn't really think I would find it in all the files, as I couldn't remember the title, but my subconscious knew the way.<br />
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So here it is, on a weekend that brought all kind of weathers and temperatures and feels like a wheel of turning seasons.<br />
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<br />Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-71378212829366414782017-07-15T17:23:00.002+02:002017-07-15T17:24:49.663+02:00july skies<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTA_5VN1-tuVwAK_E1hfDTO-x1iX7wOkhe4JIXjWefKqiXWxBhehgNdtJX3uJ1wgYM8GTFSuk-IEkZq9yl3xCGVh3VZdmpPsaxHOqKgD5aoXSBIQqcW_9EkDZB7PWg60UeXopuWyrZA1L6/s1600/orte-notzingen-walk-july2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTA_5VN1-tuVwAK_E1hfDTO-x1iX7wOkhe4JIXjWefKqiXWxBhehgNdtJX3uJ1wgYM8GTFSuk-IEkZq9yl3xCGVh3VZdmpPsaxHOqKgD5aoXSBIQqcW_9EkDZB7PWg60UeXopuWyrZA1L6/s1600/orte-notzingen-walk-july2.jpg" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">July - when green turns yellow </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">and the fields turn into cubicles of color </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">under an open summer sky</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">cloud dance </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">swallows crossing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">evening is all up</span><br />
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rain arriving<br />
like a train<br />
headed - right here<br />
fascinated, we stand and watch<br />
who catches the first drop?<br />
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more skies: <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.de/">sky friday</a><br />
<br />Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-18674929844140700782017-07-12T21:25:00.003+02:002017-07-12T21:25:48.479+02:00summer of art: 100 days, documenta, and some other roads<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieTUn06vHozVXNimdEnb0H1j7bEAR8gFTJLCIng_t_PS4a_a9hHP4-zLq2xPGH3lejFe5juLFBPRb5g4iWRy1ItLE4O5SG6bsGKyFA0B30T0ZGG5nOOw7XDV_uwHCfUziU303svEFslJfz/s1600/blog-collage-july.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieTUn06vHozVXNimdEnb0H1j7bEAR8gFTJLCIng_t_PS4a_a9hHP4-zLq2xPGH3lejFe5juLFBPRb5g4iWRy1ItLE4O5SG6bsGKyFA0B30T0ZGG5nOOw7XDV_uwHCfUziU303svEFslJfz/s1600/blog-collage-july.jpg" /></a>
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It's a beautiful, special summer for me. Without planning to, it turned into a summer of art, of places, of newness. With short trips, and with paintings, exhbitions and own studio time. Since April I am joining the 100 days art project, and since then, I am mostly posting on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/"><b>my instagram page</b></a>. <br />
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Now the 100 days are almost complete. I probably will continue the daily practice, and with it, the vibe of this summer of art.<br />
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Here are some of my fav moments from the last weeks:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>Visiting the documenta 14 in Kassel</b><br />"FREEDOM" </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">+ the Parthenon of forbidden book. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">So many. A reminder of the power of words. </span><br />
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For some more impressions from there, try my photo slideshows: <br />
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9a0s1Ct0jI">Documenta Day 1: BeingSafeIsScary</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSpoQthgkq4">Documenta Day 2: Green People are a Recent Invention</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwEuo8fjxN0">Documenta Day 3: Ignorance is a Virtue</a></li>
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<b>Comic Con Germany </b><br />
The day you stand in line with Wonder Woman and Rocket Racoon....<br />
... isn't a dream, it's Comic Con :)<br />
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<b>Black Forest </b><br />
After the comic con weekend: time for some mountains:)<br />
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<b>The 100 Days Project</b><br />
“Click” is the name of today’ mandala. It’s #93/100 – a collage, I had fun cutting paper and trying different colors until it “clicked” into place. It’s also a good counterpart to the current work project, which is about statistics and tests (and exciting in a nerdy way).<br />
<a href="https://blueprint21blog.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/the100dayproject/"><b>#the100dayproject</b></a> + <b><a href="https://blueprint21blog.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/podcast-talk-with-100-creatives/">my 100 days podcast talk</a></b><br />
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<br />Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-8027751998856275442017-06-08T13:11:00.002+02:002017-06-08T14:35:36.267+02:00the100dayproject, Day 66/100: a colorful milestone + creative podcast with me :)<br />
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<b>Start. </b><br />
<b>Choose a creative theme.</b><br />
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That is the idea of the 100 Day Project: simple, and difficult. A challenge of creativity and resilience.<br />
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So far, I didn't postpone a day. Some days are good, some are okay, some days bring suprise inspiration.<br />
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Today is day 66/100. It feels like a colorful milestone. The video above shows the first 25 mandalas in a slideshow. And today (in lovely timing for the 2/3-of-the-way-date) <a href="https://www.100creatives.com/podcast/2017/5/6/episode-33-dorothee-lang"><b>an 100 Days interview with me</b></a> went online. This is part of the <a href="https://www.100creatives.com/">100 Creatives</a> Podcast series, and it features questions and answers about creativity, inspiriation, and my 100 days project :)<br />
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<b>Here are some more links, to celebrate: </b><br />
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<li>The place that turned into a creative stream of 100 day art shared on instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/100dayproject/">#the100dayproject</a></li>
<li>My 100 days theme is "Mandalas", <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/100daysofm/">click here to see the mandalas so far</a></li>
<li>My instagram account (currently a combination of a mandala each day, and a photo): <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">lifeasjourney</a></li>
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The plan is to experiment with the process: combine painting and mixed media, and also collage elements and digital processes.<br />
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<b>My new website:</b><br />
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Since a longer while, I plan to update / relaunch my website.</div>
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It probably isn't just coincidence that I worked on that parallel to the 100daysproject.</div>
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There are still some things I want to add, and so it's still a work in progress (like almost all things), but it's online now:</div>
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Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-85492327821583728772017-06-05T22:23:00.000+02:002017-06-06T22:24:03.175+02:00harlequin beach memory, or: to be at the ocean now <i>on this cold and rainy June day, some sunny ocean memories, both in photos, and in a short story based on a real journey:
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He stayed in the car while she went to the hotel. That’s the way they always did it. He staying, she searching.<br />
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This time it was easy. The door was locked, but there was a sign saying “chambres à louer” – rooms to rent. Just some minutes later, the receptionist arrived, dropped off by a black van. She handed her the room list. Each room had a different price, apparently calculated by a formula that included the level, size and view.<br />
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“Un chambre with a view?” she asked.<br />
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“Oui,” the receptionist answered, and opened the drawer with the keys.<br />
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Walking up the stairs, she saw a gecko on the ceiling. <br />
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Later, after they had been at the beach, it was still there. She pointed at it.<br />
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“Gecko,” she said. <br />
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“It’s fake,” he answered.<br />
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He was probably right, she had to admit it. The gecko hadn’t moved one inch. She tried to remember the French word for gecko, but only got as far as le chien, the dog, and le chat, the cat. <br />
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“Je suis un gecko,” she whispered while they let the water rinse the salt and sand from their skin and hair. I am a gecko. Only that she wasn’t. There was no way she could rest idle for hours while hanging upside down on the ceiling. There wasn’t even a way she could rest idle in a room for longer than a sunset, or a book, or a thought.<br />
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“Let’s go somewhere for dinner,” she said.<br />
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“We could walk along the beach,” he suggested. <br />
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But there were still too many people out there, walking over the remains of sand castles, walking along the footsteps of the day. Thus it was in the night, on the way back from a restaurant called Harlequin, that they were alone at the beach. <br />
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"The moon," she said and pointed at the reflection on the water that moved in waves. For a while they walked with it, with this reflection. She tried to figure out how the light did it, how it was able to stay by their side.<br />
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"It's what light does," he said and painted circles for her in the sand. First the moon. Then the earth. Then the sun, to explain the reflection. The reflection didn’t care about the sketch, though. It simply waited for him to move on, along the beach, along the thin line of water meeting earth under the pressure of air breathed in and out by hundreds of people.<br />
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The next morning, while the sun was still a blurry spot in a bowl of fog, she went to the water, to gather the elements she wanted to save from that day:<br />
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The sand moon.<br />
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The riddle of the traveling pool of light.<br />
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And the gecko, who had changed sides while they dined, unfake after all.<br />
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<b>Notes + links: </b><br />
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<li>the story was first published in <a href="http://www.juked.com/">juked magazine</a> </li>
<li>the second and third photo are actually from the very beach of the Harlequin story, but from a later visit there (the place is: Narbonne, France). </li>
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Two sky moments from friday evening - the first is a lucky shot, it happened due to arriving at a traffic light just when it went red. first i was: okay, another red light. then i looked up and smiled.<br />
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It's April weather in full swing here in Germany. Here are some photos from a new trail I discovered last week (well, the trail isn't new, but for me it is.) This is the same place, just some days apart, and with different weather:</div>
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A nice curved walk along fields and old trees, and at the start / end, a straight part. There were dandelions in bloom all along the way, and as my theme for these days is Mandalas in all kind of different materials, I turned into a 5-year old for some minutes, and picked some dandelions, and created a "sign" with them. (more about my mandala focus, here: <a href="http://virtual-notes.blogspot.de/2017/04/joining-100dayproject-with-100-days-of.html">Joining #the100dayproject with 100 Days of Mandalas and Gratitude</a></div>
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Fast forward to today: same walk, but different weather, and many of the dandelions have moved from yellow flower to fluffy white sphere. Here are some photos: </div>
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And a nice final photo, a plant I noticed - it felt like a mandala-shaped-wink from the trail.<br />
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Tomorrow the weather will turn cloudy and rainy again, and then will keep swinging.<br />
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More skies from around the world: <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.de/">Skywatch Friday </a><br />
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Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-15881777861615562582017-04-14T14:53:00.000+02:002017-04-14T15:12:36.869+02:00Joining #the100dayproject with 100 Days of Mandalas and Gratitude<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCotSED-ANoPi25lVKKjhpufHEmmqc7dtjdxTBIwEm8XYyzlJWK-MRGmYnGM6d8e1lrde80D-Nn6jT6Sn2DNKhyphenhyphenI_Hl7fn1jxkR3mrMQHFfTA8u42XB2zCc_5D6H0x5C-Nfk2seWewJPU/s1600/output-slideshow-day10.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCotSED-ANoPi25lVKKjhpufHEmmqc7dtjdxTBIwEm8XYyzlJWK-MRGmYnGM6d8e1lrde80D-Nn6jT6Sn2DNKhyphenhyphenI_Hl7fn1jxkR3mrMQHFfTA8u42XB2zCc_5D6H0x5C-Nfk2seWewJPU/s400/output-slideshow-day10.gif" width="400" /></a><br />
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<b>Last week, the 100 Day Project started - a free, global art project that anyone can participate in.</b><br />
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The challenge is simple: choose an action you'll do for 100 days, and then keep going, and share your piece daily on instagram with the hashtag <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/100dayproject/">#the100dayproject</a>.
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First I wasn't sure if to join, and which theme to pick - I played with ideas, thinking about photography, digital art, or collages? And while pondering, I sketched a mandala - and then things fell into place for me:
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The theme for me is "Mandalas", <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/100daysofm/">click here to see the mandalas / days so far</a>. The plan is to experiment with the process: combine painting and mixed media, and also collage elements and digital processes. Plus, as mandalas are symbols of positivity and gratitude, and as I felt a bit low in the last weeks moodwise, I am combining the theme with gratitude.
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The first mandala I created was a digital art piece, here's the note for it:<br />
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And the second mandala - still one of my favs so far - is a symbol for the upcoming days and processes:<br />
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Yesterday I reached day 10, and put together a slideshow with the first 10 pieces. I already look forward to the next 10 days.<br />
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I won't be blogging much these days, but you can find me and my daily pieces at Instagram at: <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">lifeasjourney: 100 Days of Mandalas and Gratitude</a>. </b>Right now, it's a combination of mandalas, and photographs of places I visted.<br />
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<b>Links:</b><br />
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<li>For more about the 100 day project, visit the
<a href="https://the100dayproject.org/what-is-the100dayproject-fbb4d1754a90">The 100 Days project website</a> (you still can join)</li>
<li>An article with the story of the 100 day project, in the magazin Designobserver: <a href="http://designobserver.com/feature/five-years-of-100-days/24678">Five Years of 100 Days</a>. </li>
<li>Simple online tool to create slideshows: <a href="http://gifmaker.me/">gifmaker.me</a></li>
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Interesting to see that without really planning to, I actually did a "digital fast" and unplugged from facebook, twitter and the blog, and only posted <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeasjourney/">photos at Instagram</a> every now and then.</div>
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Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6405343172956271994.post-87506151427124744802017-03-05T19:15:00.001+01:002017-05-13T08:11:48.727+02:00Sunday museum time with Hundertwasser, a baroque palace, and a modern literature museum <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9pnQsd9Ml4nBUFe82Uw_cwcQPOeNmg4cF0XuhrybUVz-rSQSVO0Id163Q6GptGmKj8NJAkpUbM8UxNAZRUMpsP6WT6hHz414W-pM7Z5xBrocCAqVDOjSZuaEUuxUoXr_LScTHcGC74HBm/s1600/IMG_7974-729638.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6394079864012930978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9pnQsd9Ml4nBUFe82Uw_cwcQPOeNmg4cF0XuhrybUVz-rSQSVO0Id163Q6GptGmKj8NJAkpUbM8UxNAZRUMpsP6WT6hHz414W-pM7Z5xBrocCAqVDOjSZuaEUuxUoXr_LScTHcGC74HBm/s400/IMG_7974-729638.JPG" width="400" /></a><br />
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Sunday museum time - Hundertwasser exhibition in Ludwigsburg. Such vivid colors and shapes.<br />
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And such good contrasts: the exhibition is located in the <a href="http://www.schloss-ludwigsburg.de/en/home/">Ludwigsburg Residential Palace</a>, one of the largest baroque palaces in Germany. This is the view when you look out of a window:<br />
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Which is especially interesting when you stand inside this baroque place and look at the architecture models of Hundertwasser, and the photos of the buildings that were based on them.<br />
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And then you move to the paintings...<br />
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After visiting the exhibition, I wandered a bit through the palace area and gardens, and walked into this still life with painter. Actually, there were several people sketching / painting. So nice, to see artists and art-in-progress right after the exhibition: <br />
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And here's the other side of the palace, the counterpart view to the first scenery photo. I liked the contrast of posh/perfect facade, and the plastic construction barriere, especially as it has my family name...<br />
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After Hundertwasser, I went to the <a href="https://www.dla-marbach.de/en/museums/literaturmuseum-der-moderne/">Museum of Modern Literature</a> ... which had a very different style, very clean and modern. The iterature museum is in Marbach, which turned out to be only about 40 minutes from where I live... first time I went there. Nice to do something for the first time.<br />
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Inside the museum: thoughtful notes and quotes and reflections.<br />
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Words on walls, words on the floor. <br />
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"Die Seele eines Archivs sind seine Dinge. Sie beseelen uns mit dem Gefühl, auf einer Spur zu sein... und wir erinnern uns, dass Sprechen immer Unterwegssein heisst." - "The soul of an archive consists of its things. They touch as with the feeling, to be a on a path... and we remember that speaking always means to be on a way."<br />
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The treasures of this museum: ink on paper.<br />
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Such surprises: Allen Ginsbergs mantra-shaped book note for Carl Weisner. A posrcard from Kafka. Mascha Kaleko's ad texts for air wick. A draft of Celan's "todesfuge". A sketch by Hermann Hesse... all those details... </div>
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