MOON TREE




Gabriel Orozco inspires me. I'm starting to look at things around me with fresh eyes.

I don't want to be a master. I want to be a kid.
To keep making art, you have to put yourself in the position of a beginner.
You have to be excited by a stone on the sidewalk, or like a child, by the flight of a bird.

HAPPY HOUR

I visited an exhibition of Paul Klee the other day, one of my favorite artists.
There was a quote on the wall and it somehow moved me.
It was something like this:
'Colour possesses me. This is the meaning of my happy hour. Colour and I are one. I'm a painter. '
I thought my life would be quite boring if I stopped creating.

The center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me.

Extremely loud and incredibly close

I was so touched by the sign above,

' please protect/take good care of plants and flowers on the Path of Philosophy'
(there's a path in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto), written by a school kid.

There's something so beautiful and liberating about the handwriting and the way children draw.

Sadly as we get older, we tend to lose those qualities.

I've been thinking of art education lately.

Do we consciously or unconsciously try to draw 'better'?

Is learning to draw as precisely as possible really necessary?
I don't agree with the idea that the word 'right or wrong' exists in drawings

or any form of so-called art in general as some people say.

Playful and unconventional textile art & sculpture
1. Lizzie Olsson-arle, 1974, Appliqué
2. Aganeta Goes, 1974, Appliqué
3. Marie Louise de Geerbergenstrahle. Fish balls in lobster sauce, 1968, appliqué with stuffing
4. Margareta Hallek, Varied Wrinkles, 1968, Variable seam-embroidery with elastic
5. Inga Brand, 1975, Woven forms
All from Svensk textilkonst

So often people are working hard at the wrong thing.
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
working hard is overrated

LITTLE PEOPLE


Promise this is the last time you'll be seeing these here.
I'm beginning to enjoy expressing my ideas in 3D lately.
In case you are curious to see a bit more,

head over my other work-in-progress blog.

which project has given you the most satisfaction?
every project has its own satisfaction, and reflection.
and we need both to move to the next step.

interview from sanaa

^

Jordi Ferreiro

Max Bill


Concrete art
'it is the expression of the human spirit, intended for the human spirit, 

and it should have the sharpness, the clarity and the perfection that must be 

expected from the human spirit.'

(via)

Details

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.

One

'It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.'


Extremely loud and incredibly close
Jonathan Safran Foer

Experiment

Circles.

"Sandy [Alexander Calder] was never, in all his long life, unhappy.
He himself said that he had "a big advantage"

as he was inclined to be happy by nature.
Once a magazine reporter asked him if he ever experienced sadness,

and he answered, "No, I don´t have the time."

(via herzensart journal)

Time & growing older


To me, growing older has for a long time been associated

with a certain uneasiness.

I generally don't give a toss about space,

but I have a problem with time.
'Naive.Super' Erlend Loe

Well, me too.