I like English word wander. There is also German word wandern, which almost mean the same, but put more structure into the meaning. No wonder, it’s a German word.  To wander for me is going with the wind through fields and meadows. It is summer time, so let’s wander or wandern for more organised one.

On one sunny Friday evening I encouraged my Kot and we went to Tate Modern. I gave him a promise of a super cool dog sculpture.
All excited we enter the quite crowded exhibition of Giacometti works.

He is the most famous because of his sculptures. The walking man is still one of the most expensive sculpture ever sold.
The collection of his works presented in Tate Modern is simply astonishing. The exhibition is constructed in a way that you can simply see how Giacometti developed his style, from where he took inspiration from and how he become Giacometti everyone knows.
His long figures are beautifully disturbing. His two dimensional portraits are interestingly confusing. And his whole life’s effort to make a head is amazing.
First he had a vision how this resemblance should look like, after some years when each attempt to make a human head become a failure, he continued to work just to understand why he fails. Isn’t it amazing? What a devotion, dedication and humility. Once he said: I would like to do trees, nudes. But it’s no use for me to do nudes if I can’t handle the head –  That is a spirit!
Now we can watch this amazing vast of those failures: big heads, small, flat, surreal, cubic…

We left exhibition filled with so many different, for some contrast emotions, thinking and chatting about what we just saw, when suddenly we realised, that we have missed the dog. I bet you also already forgot about the dog. I don’t know, if we missed it, or if the dog was not there, but if you go for Giacometti exhibition and you will find a dog, let me know. We miss the dog.

Exhibition
Until 10 September 2017

Quick sketch of one of Giacometti works.

Do You remember Mila? My source of inspiration?
Mila as a puppy has a lot of toys.  Balls, rings, rubber and fluffy… just name it.
But we would have never expected that these two ordinary things could be her favourites toys.

Before, it was almost not visible on the landscape.
It needed tragic event to take place, to make it visible even in a dark night.
15.06.2017

When I was born, my dad brought to hospital for my mom a bouquet of peonies.
These were the first flowers I have ever seen.
Aren’t they perfect as a first flowers to be seen?

Let’s meet Mila
Few months ago she appeared in our life.
She was tiny, very shy and quiet.
With time she became more self confident and… lots of things has changed.
I have a feeling, that she will be a source of inspiration for a long time.

Sometimes 5 minutes is enough to catch the moment.

Recently I came across the topic of: Unknown. How to show Unknown? How can we describe something which is yet indescribable?
Lots of science-fiction artists show unknown worlds, but they all look the same. Somehow it makes sense what Stanisław Lem wrote in Solaris:
“We don’t want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.”
But isn’t it also like this, that sometimes this what we know the most can give us the answer to unknown?

Lots of people think and say, that to make abstract art is pretty easy.
One line here, one line there and… done.
Well…
During my last life drawing, the task was: “Think and feel abstract.”
Easy….
A model was changing poses quiet often, so we could easily draw figures in close relation.
I approached my white paper with great confidence.
The first figure, changing pose and time for overlapping drawing, kind of double exposure, so that one figure would be on top of another.
Hymm…
To my great surprise the new figure appeared far away from the other. They were connecting only in one place… shyly touching elbows. I was pushing this figure to the right side and pushing, but the figure was very stubborn.
Being Abstract requires being bold and letting go. But it is so difficult to say: “what a hell, let’s see what will happen”. It’s like unlearning, what you had learned.
It’s tough, but hey, today elbows..tomorrow Picasso 🙂