… but I am not so sure about living that life! Alas, one doesn’t come without the other. Anyway, do visit this site, the work is awesome to the devine degree of awesomness, and humane to the last photo-grane. And please, read the “about” page!
Happiness, thankfulness, appreciation
The topic of the present time is the gratefulness or thankfulness, which is a better consept when described as appreciation. I am not even sure if the two can be described as one stricktly speeking, but they ARE confused quite often anyway. The appreciation is probably closer to a wonder at the way the things turned out to be so good, or the wonder at the skill and goodness of the people having done something amazing, kind, devine, skillful, inspired… While in the words “gratefilnes” or “thankfulnes” there is a bit of a slave, a poor relative, something of deficiency. A bit of something we could do without.
Here is a story on BBC website to illustrate this appreciation of life’s little wonders…
A simple truth about appreciation was revealed to me recently – that it is equal to happiness. Or perhaps one can say, it is one of the sides of happiness, or one of the ways to it. So many things we have, which we do not cherish. Somehow being critical, demanding is often viewed as a virtue, a sign of sofistication and discernment. That it might be, but it also takes us even further away from happiness, kindness, child-like-ness. Away from health and down the road of Ego…
Poking about in the dark corners of my own Ego, I try to figure where this ansavoury self- and others-critic comes from, and come to a coclusion, that I view it as the ultimate quality-control device, whitout which I’ll be on a slippery-sliding slope to the gatters. Is it really so? Is it really so?.. A doubt is seeded. Perhaps I’ll soon be free. I’ll be free!
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Art is…
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide
Dogon tribe
Don’t you wish you were a little plasticine person who gets to live in this enchanting plasticine village when you look at this picture?
A trail of YouTube clips, starting from Australian whales, brought me eventually to an article on Dogon people in Wikipedia. It is extremely interesting.
A few brief facts:
- Dogon people are The Most Positive Tribe of the planet Earth. They are known among the neighbours as Sewa People (Everything is Fine People)
- Women are economically independent from men (their husbands) and the equivalent of a jewelry box in Dogon is the size of a house.
- Man too have their own space for “boy’s only” time. Very wisely, the roof of the building they use for that is made low, so that to prevent fighting, in case a conversation heats up somewhat (below is an example. Isn’t it a fun place to spend afternoons with the mates?)
- Women have 5 days a month off family duties in their “girls only hut”
- Makes one cringe a bit – both genders undergo a ritual of circumcision…
- The Dogons are very harmony oriented. In their rituals, the men praise the women, the women praise the man, the young appreciate the old and the old appreciate the young!
- In their myths, for apparently millennia Dogons cary knowledge about Sirius star system, which modern science came upon only within the last few decades.
Art and God
Like it!
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This here is my kind of humor. In general, and in particular the way I feel at the moment…
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Another one of the Tedtalks – building a windmill
He is one of the amazing ones!
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“East of Nowhere” – contemporary art from Central Asia
Artworks from Central Asian artists hailing from nations that were formerly Soviet republics, including Kazahkstan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, are on display in an inaugural event launching the new space of Fondazione 107, in Turin, Italy.
Vsiual art – importance… impotence…
Let’s enjoy something deep and meaningful. Something beautiful and innocent, created with the skill and the soul.
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Today I especially dislike the conceptual and otherwise visual art of today, with the exception of Banksy and book illustration.
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.” Banksy
Here is a nice blog entry about him.
The accidental finding of the previous video led to another one, which reminded me about something I was thinking sometime now and today in connection to my work – the need to have a human presence in a picture. Otherwise it seems meaningless… Why, I do not know.
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Morning…
View From My Studio Window
First day in the studio after two weeks break.
Resistance.
Cold big room.
I sit down on the bed, facing the view. NOW…..
… The wind carries yellow leaves past my window. Their unorderly procession adds gayety to the intensely stormy sky.
The wind gently holds the birds up in the air. They remind me of something… Of what? The feeling. The feeling of being alive and enjoying just that – being alive, which is always revocable, but constantly neglected. Why? Why cannot I share it with everyone? The poignant happiness of the moment, transient and untransferable. Or IS it untransferable?
The bird, flying in the sky, being happy and unconcerned – does it care about sharing its emotions with anyone?
The leaves, scattering away from the trees, obviously having fun escaping, what do they think of their experience?
Why can’t I stop and enjoy and not care about involving others into the sharing of my experience, and looking around and asking, “Did you see that? Did you notice that? Do you feel what I feel? Feel it with me!”
Because I am a human?..
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Poetry. “Poetic Bloodline” Gemini
What Art is about? I am doing the Big Questions this week…
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