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Sunday, December 23, 2007

One of a few for 2008

I’ve just came to the conclusion what I want to achieve as my personal goal by the end of next year : to be again “myself” when I paint and to again BE the unhindered joy of painting - and to stop succumbing to ‘competition/critique pressure’ from the outside.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Breaking through.

Finally! I can feel it once again - this wave of joy, rightness and pouring out of (creative) energy while painting.

It has been too many years since I last “owned” this feeling and I feared it already lost. But in a typical stuborness I have been working towards gaining it again, just not ready to give in.

And only a brief moment ago I had it again… It is not just having something, it is BEING it while being what I feel is truly me. Washed away are other peoples opinions and other distractions of the mind - being fully IN the current time while weaving the colors in depth and expression on canvas.

Right now I am happy. Did not expect it to happen and even though I belief more work is needed to fully re-establish and stablize it: it is here and I will not let loose of it.

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Just finished: Hope.

Acryl: 21.5 x 15 inches.

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Saturday, May 12, 2007

In the midst… of my term paper

Yeah. And in the midst means research and that once again, “Google is your friend” holds true in this time of information overflow.While trying to come to terms with my personal assignment, the PRE-RAPHAELITES - what the hell do I have in common with THEM?! - I am following down the various information paths and once again, end-up with Wikipedia to help putting all the colliding and confusing data together into one clean statement.And here I follow to the link of Michelangelo, with whom I feel a special bond, and one sentence I read is that […] for Michelangelo, the job of the sculptor was to free the forms that were already inside the stone. […] which is really funny to read, because just 3 days ago at my final critique I was trying to put this exact thing into words when describing a part of my painting, Flying to the Moon. Often, when I work, I know “it is there” and that I just have to work at it to come out, get clearer and then by painting I can mold it and make it visible to others too…. and back to the paper it is for me.