I once jokingly said I paint with everything I come across. That is indeed the case.
Experimenting with materials and combining them in an unusual way often results in unforeseen effects. I like to combine materials which are usually not used for painting, like to mix rough and fine ones and let them interact.
When traveling in China in 2019 I had the opportunity to get a very short introduction into Chinese calligraphy and traditionell Chinese painting at the Tang Bo Art Museum Xian. It was a rainy afternoon and the hotel receptionist recommended this museum as a must see to better understand Chinese art. We were the only visitors and the museum guide was happy to welcome two interested visitors. Our very detailed private tour ended in something like a classroom where we learned about ancient, traditionell and modern Chinese writing.
Last weeks I worked with very raw materials: petrified earth, field stones, stones that have crumbled into earth, gravel and lots of beton. We built a floor in a part of an old cave, about 28 square meters. We chopped out a lot of earth and stones (because over the years, some of what was stored on the ground dissolved into some kind of soil), transported most of it into our garden as a foundation for a new vegetable bed, levelled the ground with gravel and concreted the ground.
A beginning cold on the first cool weekend after the summer forced me to rest and so I did almost nothing but read and think. I was shocked how fast this year has already progressed, in the midst of all the work I hardly noticed that now summer is coming to an end.
Sehr viele Menschen kommen irgendwann einmal an den Punkt, wo sie ihre Paarbeziehung hinterfragen. Oft nur aus einem mulmigen Gefühl heraus, dass etwas nicht ganz richtig ist, manchmal, weil einem der andere zunehmend auf die Nerven geht oder auch weil man sich innerlich weit entfernt fühlt von seinem Partner.
Gründe gibt es viele und sie haben viel mit unserem unbewußten Denken, Fühlen und Handeln zu tun und wie unser Partner darauf reagiert. Es verlangt von jedem ein hohes Maß an Achtsamkeit sich selbst gegenüber. Denn das Problem des einen ist auch das Problem des anderen.