on inspiration

design and photo by my daughter

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The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.

— Chuck Close
(Source : nirvikalpa)

hang fairy lights around your house

destination?

desire to travel

Africa

spring detox

Days are getting longer and brighter, sun is shining and even the birds sing in the morning (I don't know how they are able to in  -10°..).  This is the perfect moment to go for  the detox program!
Detox doesn't mean not to eat. It's not a diet. It's simply a spring-cleaning for the liver, the kidneys, the skin - and the whole rest of your body:

• start the day with a glass of lukewarm  slightly salted water and a few minutes of hula hoop
• drink two cups of nettle tea and plenty of water during the day
• eat "pure" food, which means non processed food, no instant microwave food
• eat much more fruit and vegetable you normally do
• use rather herbs than salt for seasoning
• drink less coffee and tea you normally do
• abstain from spirits (a good glass of wine is ok)
• eat a bit of dark chocolate if you are craving sweets
• finish the day with a glass of lukewarm slightly salted water and a few minutes of hula hoop

That's all - enjoy!

lomo - the wild side of photography

"It began with a fateful encounter in the early 1990s, when two students in Vienna, Austria, stumbled upon the Lomo Kompakt Automat – a small, enigmatic Russian camera." So to read in www.lomography com.  The pictures taken with this small plastic toy are so vibrant. What most inspires me  about Lomo is the touch of anarchy  in the perfect world of  post-processed digital photos.


Yesterday Lomo entered our lives.. My daughter and I were out and about, buying some camera equipment, when from a sudden mood my daughter asked the salesman for a lomographie camera. WE DON'T SELL PLASTIC. ah.... great disappointment, and suddenly the lomo was not a mood anymore: it had become an object of desire. NECESSARY TO OWN. And you won't be surpirsed by the end of the day, sweet Viki calls herself the proud owner of a lomo. I must admit, it's a  cute  little thing: just 4  distances to choose the right focus, the pictograms of clouds and sun for aperture and choice between day and night for the shutter. An analogue film reel ISO 400 and there you go! 


Can't wait to see the first pictures of my daughters little "Diana"!

two fish in a float pool

Can you imagine to ride through the Universe in velvetlike blackness?   It's amazing to step out of speedy daylife and lose any touch with gravity for a while.
When we left  Schwebebad float pools we felt energized, relaxed and clean. In fact, so clean that only a simple white fish with lemon dinner came in question, to not destroy the fresh lightness we had achieved.
Sorry for not offering  poolshots from my own lens. Next time I'll  bring the camera!

ice cold spring-tastes like pistaccio icecream

My florentine darling has just returned for a week and we are celebrating a lazy girls' evening.
Tomorrow more photos and more fun!

The best moments come unexpectedly

Short-sighted and astigmatic for my whole life I decided to join a workshop about "regaining the perfect vision". Two days filled with intensive relaxation, exercises on how to move all the lazy muscles of the eye back into life and an astonishing insight into the  hidden secrets of an ametrope's mind.  Then the night.- Sleep.- Next morning .- I opened my eyes : and could distinguish the needles of the pine branches in front of my window!
Wow! Success!! Unbelievable! Promise I'll keep on exercising!

to all the coffee lovers

Wish you a creative Tuesday!

Thank you, darling!

flowerpower

Goodbye Christmas tree! Goodbye Erzgebirgian Angels and Miners, Incense Smokers and Nutcrackers! Goodbye all the ornaments and decorations!

My best antidote against the sudden "emptiness" is to stop by my favourite flowershop, buy a bunch of  flowers and arrange them all over the house.

This really makes me feel fresh and joyful  - somehow like new beginning and springtime!

Blumen-Werkstatt, Kötschenbrodaer Straße 118, 01445 Radebeul

Qi Gong in the early morning hours

The house is so quiet and peaceful in the morning. It's still dark outside. Inside a warm  light of  white candles and the sound of the gently flowing Qi Gong music.