summer feeling... (3)

summer feeling... (4)

This summer has been as the summer I remember as a child, a real summer holiday with sunny days every day the whole summer (off course some days had rain…), but the feeling was from my childhood time.

I was my whole holiday up in the North of Sweden with my folks, and I can say that that was a great decision this summer because I was not fit for fight at all, I was really really tired and it was good that be with the family that know that my energy was gone and that the know what I love to do, so they could take me with them and do nice things as car trips, good food places, flea market visiting and just hang around on in the garden or take a swim in a outdoor public swimming pool… not big things or events, but things that fit my life perfect at the time.

When I was in Sundsvall the gatufest with fair was one of the events, the in the end of my visit the gatufest went in bankruptcy, so now it´s just a memory…

In the gallery that I had exhibit some years ago they had done a cheek flea market Duo, it was a lot of great stuff there.

It was also a Tai market this summer at the Norra berget one of the two City Mountains in Sundsvall. The Tai market started last summer and will be a market every summer…

My mother had a lot of great and amazing flowers in her garden; it was hard not to take some photos of all the colorful flowers.

The first three weeks of my four weeks’ vacation was bad sleep and lot´s bad feelings that comes with too little sleep.

I celebrate my birthday with the family too, I didn´t contact any of my “old” friend this summer, it´s a little bite pity, but sometimes the life is too complicated to handle when you are with other people.

I got mail by my friend Joanne in UK, she had sent me g shopping bag that was really really nice and that I wear and use here in Gothenburg. She had also sent me nice postcards with drawing squirrels on. Thank you dear Joanne! I´m always grateful over your thoughts and gifts.

Ruudt Peters...

http://www.noovoeditions.com/NOOVO/interviews.html

Chinese alchemy is based on the life force Qi, the interaction between body and spirit, the continuation of life. The artist Ruudt Peters wanted to get an understanding of this legacy and left Holland for a journey through China that was to last three months.

During his travels he visited the terracotta army of emperor Jing Di, comparable with the better known army of China's first emperor, only with figures half as tall and more damaged by the ravages of time. He was struck by what he saw: the futile efforts to display power and shield a dead ruler. This was the opposite of what had brought Peters to this part of the world. So during his stay at the Chinese European Art Centre in Xiamen, he decided to create a his own army, made from porcelain and based on the Chinese Alchemistic tradition. His starting point was the idealized Chinese acupuncture-man, but he modified him into a model defined by a western lifestyle and the passing of time. Before the figures went into the furnace, he individualized each one by altering surfaces and adding or removing segments and details. Later on in Amsterdam, he attached al sorts of elements made of silver, iron, glass, or horse hair. Peters three months sojourn in China is now symbolized by 99 china men. An army celebrating life.

Each day during his trip Peters made a blind drawing: a pillow on his lap, drawing pad on top, sketching with eyes closed. They became the logbook of his experiences, of his mental and physical reactions. Gradually human faces started to emerge in the drawings. Who's features became visible? Was it someone from the East or the West, or perhaps the alter ego of the artist? Eventually these portraits provided the starting point for a collection of jewellery pieces. Fragments from Peters' drawings were laser-cut in Xiamen from semi-translucent slices of agate. He assembled them into brooches and necklaces and applied silver lines on both front- and backsides. In doing so, he merged European and Chinese conventions, seeking an interaction between deliberately, and subconsciously made sketches. The outcome is a portrayal of the experiences of a researching, searching artist.

Ward Schrijver
(© Galerie Rob Koudijs)

inspiration...

From http://pinterest.com/rainbowmystic/coral-reef-protectors/

Inspiration images… I want to work with clouds but need to find structures for it, and why not dive into the water world to find what I´m looking for?!