Allowing strength to give way to fragility
The Christmas holidays are behind us, the New Year's festivities are yet to come. For a year I have been reflecting and writing these newsletters. Should I continue with them?
The calendar with the three-color cyanotypes was finished just in time for Christmas. The New Year will surely bring new projects.
The year of mourning
Or of the freedom to hang upside down by a silken thread and sway gently.
A somewhat different look back
Today I would like to look back on this year of mourning. I feel an underlying melancholy mood. Although I can be superficially cheerful, fulfilling my duties and joking around. But that is all just surface. Underneath, grief lies like a dark carpet, dampening my steps and my mood.
Hanging upside down on a silken thread
Some days I feel like I'm hanging upside down on a silken thread over the abyss, not sure if the thread will hold. I have felt this way since my mother died. Sometimes I lift my head and dare to let my eyes wander into the distance again. My world has been turned upside down and this process is not yet finished.
Upside down...
...I perceive the world from a completely different perspective. I no longer look down from above, I look up from below. The world is upside down for me, I have trouble orienting myself. Where is up, where is down?
I have decided to simply accept this strange state. My mood is like this, it belongs to me now. Gently I sway in this state, somewhere in limbo. The day will come when I feel ground under my feet again and arrive at my core.
In the studio
This is one of the pictures that was created in the last few weeks. I will publish this one and also the others on Facebook.
Would you like to read more from me?
In January I had planned to write a monthly newsletter. I didn't quite manage to do that. So today I ask you: would you like to read more studio tours? How many there will be per year, I can not say, but if something has moved me, I will write about it. You are welcome to give me feedback by mail. Thank you and all the best for the brand new year 2022!
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