To end the month comfortably, I present a work that I exhibited last year at Kunsttage in Basel in the form of a folder. The work now hangs on the wall in Atelier Klingental. Although the work was designed as a folder, it looks good on the wall.
Thursday, 13
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens
the future and makes the present inaccessible
Maya Angelou
from newsletter moleskine foundation
Who is the stranger in me?
That's the title of this year's AtWork workshop. The title made me think of my multiple strangers. I think I'm the results of all the strangers I encountered. But who are they? Yes, when I encounter someone or something unknown they are becoming strangers in me. Or seeing someone or something from an unusual angle or somebody or something I've never seen before. I have the choice to keep them alien or to get to know them, and then the strange turns into familiar. Maybe by now the strangers in me are no more strangers. It is not an easy question. To make it short, i appreciate the strangers in me whoever they are. To some I pay more attention, to some less. That is humanity.
Wenn my mother talks about the strangers, it's different. For her using the word strangers (I think she uses mostly the plural die Fremden) means simply the negative, not welcome. Anything that doesn't reflect herself becomes alien and unacceptable. As if my mother were fighting for herself against some (strange) evil. However, as I'm uncomfortable with this kind of talk, I try to substitute the familiar for the alien. At the same time I feel sorry for my mother that she isolates herself. She has not unlearned this way of thinking and feeling about the strange. I'm sorry because she complicates her life. That's why I keep trying to explain and explain and explain and explain.
Saturday, 8
music is not allowed. i think this RAMADAN is killing me.
i know since i'm not a Muslim i might listen to music,
but i can't enjoy it when everyone around me is just
praying or listening to clerical melodies.
thirteen days to go...
Friday, 7
However, I expanded the column again a bit. Hope that's ok. Anyway, I really miss company. I'm alone too much. And now that I'm scared of driving, there's not much I can do about it. I really have no idea how to get out of this tricky situation. Despite this, I remain optimistic and think that one day I will have the brilliant idea to solve this problem.
Wednesday, 5
Sorry, but I'm not satisfied with the result. I let the three examples. But I decided to leave the past diary entries in its origingsl shape, although the text is difficult to read. As already visible, I will take over the recommended line length in the future.
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Lots of work... Pages of 6 years need to be changed. In favor of the layout, my lines remain a little longer than the recommended 60 keystrokes per line, because I will not change the size of the images chosen at the time.
february 2017
january 2017
november/december 2016
Tuesday 4
Since the lines I'm using are too long, I'll go through the recent entries to shorten them.
Sunday, 2
I don't want to do it.
I want to talk about.
Maybe after I will do it.
Art Space Work of the Month
Roland Neuer (1924-93)
Cows and Mountains, lithography, 1954, 49.8 x 63.5 cm