Zim Zum

I've experienced Zim Zum II in Düsseldorf and my impression was that at first I was a little bit afraid to go inside because I did not trust the construction. The steel plates are pretty high and the space inbetween is quite narrow. But once inside I felt like sitting down, protected, embraced, invited to sit down and reflect. I liked this feeling a lot ;)!

Zu-neigung - Inclination Towards

Loving a person from the very depth of one's self. A truly odd feeling because though it comes from so deep that it establishes the very core of the self, yet it has the strength to deny this self and completely lean towards this other person.

Michel de Montaigne called this friendship and thought it was only possible between men.

Love and Affection

Looking down outside from the upstairs cafeteria at the museum and noticing someone striding across the place to the museum with his dark jacket across his shoulder sporting a white shirt, like a caped crusader, like he owned this place. Drawing my companions' attention to what was going on outside, we had a good laugh. I love him, even for his vanity because he is no vain person.

Could You Be Loved?!

As Raimund Stecker pointed out once: "We live in an age of personalities and not persons. If we speak of somebody we talk about her or his as a personality, hardly as a person."

Is a possible reason for this the fact that a lot of interpersonal contact is virtual, defined by media - mediated and rarely immediate?

What would it mean if we would love the singularity of someone?



But surely it is something I would yearn for and the love that Michael Pennington feels towards Shakespeare.



"Love is not love. Which alters when it alteration finds."

Thank God

"Kunst ist schön, macht aber viel Arbeit./ Art is beautiful, but it causes a lot of work." - Karl Valentin
"The audience tells the story along with the film. And something happens and eventually it changes." - Michael Tolkin

To me this aspect of art has always been the most important. Works of art that get me involved that are looking at me, just as I'm looking at them. This is what is great about Barnett Newman, my whole body responds, has to respond to what is going on. Or in a play, when two characters have an intense dialogue, a dispute. In the best case it's not about chosing one side or the other, but deeper, realising what's the essence of their struggle, what is the truth and then relating to this essence.

What's In A Head?

That Barnadine in Measure For Measure manages to keep his though his whole existence as a character feels like he has to lose it, forcing Shakespeare to produce another already dead body.
Why would I feel that the most shocking line in an already pretty dark movie would be "Bring me his head."?



"I could live without my finger, I could live without my toe, but my head is necessary."



"If you always win, you are a celebrity. If you sometimes lose, you are a hero."

Oh Darkness

roll over me tonight



just to roll me over

What about the head?!

"I serve my head up on a plate."



Better than the awful slogan "Mein Kopf gehört mir/ My head belongs to me" of some creative people came up with campaigning for copyright protection some years ago, for it's quite dangerous to link ideas to something as physically necessary as a head. If people do not like your ideas they could   demand your head.