You know by now that I’m not planning a thorough theoretical study of beauty, my intention is rather to take a stroll into the maze – hoping for a glimpse of beauty, expecting nothing. I’m a vagabond, preferring to get lost. But, obviously, my way might not be the only way … (!), there is…
Category: urban jungle
when ordinary life captured
– becomes extraordinary michael wolf How is it, that the most ordinary scenes, sometimes – when captured by the most watchful eye – can become art? And who would dispute the beauty in this very ordinary everyday scene? No doubt the ordinary will have a central place in my study of beauty. Recently I…
dystopia?
On my way through life I find beauty in the strangest of places and vistas. Not so with Mr. Scruton, who says: “I think we are losing beauty and with it there is the danger of losing the meaning of life.” – we are living through the ‘uglification’ of our world – the randomization of our…
the beauty of trash –
– the art of transformation El Anatsui, ‘TSIATSIA – searching for connection’, 2013. Aluminium, (bottle-tops, printing plates, roofing sheets) and copper wire, 15 x 23 metres. El Anatsui began to manipulate broken ceramic fragments in the 1970s. In the 1990s, Anatsui made a crucial shift from working with hand tools to carving with a power saw,…
insurmountable difficulties
As I was writing my morning pages this morning it suddenly struck me how easily my mind wanders off when I sit down to write my own texts. I’m so much more focused when working on assignments. And it dawned on me that I have to try to figure out why my mind keeps wandering….
bathtub news
Not the most delicate of finds this one,but as a bathtub-documentarist I can’t afford to be choosy, my assignment is to document the reality, as it is … not to play around like –– an artist … ?
population density
population density Norway: 15/km2 population density Hong Kong: 6544/km2 I believe that how & where we live is important for who we become. I think that our sense of space becomes a part of our identity, our personality. Living conditions are a personal matter. I have no idea who I would have become living like this:…
silakkamarkkinat … (the herring market)
I went to Helsinki last weekend, but must admit: my Finnish did not improve, but my view on Finland did. Helsinki is a wonderful city to ramble around in. Helsinki is Finland’s major political, educational, financial, cultural and research centre as well as one of northern Europe’s major cities. The city seem to occupy a…
sub rosa 