Open Sesame

Häßliche Fratze

ugly hideous grimace


Some distortions seem beastly, yet any beast will turn away and address them as what they truly are - monstrous


And it is nothing anybody is born with, but the transformation is self-inflicted.

How To Tell

that things are getting worse!

The best indicator is probably that more and more people are losing their sense of humour, are becoming "tierisch ernst" (beastly serious). And John Cleese is probably right when he links this to the loss of a sense for proportion. If one has nothing to relate to, one cannot actually tell if something is out of proportion and exaggerated, which would make it funny and something to wholeheartedly laugh at, which does tend to make the issues smaller and manageable. Instead fear will let them grow abundantly.


Wider den tierischen Ernst - Against the beastly seriousness!

Gratifying

If like in some fairy tale or in Shakespeare you are suddenly faced with the option to chose, what would you go for? What is your inmost wish, what would you have nuns pray for? there is one thing that to me is most important: meaning, to always be there, where and when I am necessary.

The Wild

Walking through this wonderful forest with its gnarly trees,  suddenly confronted with semi-wild Highland cattle you remember that you were told to keep away from them at least twenty-five meters. But what if the cattle does not realize this and starts moving towards you?! It was a wonderful afternoon that ended with gigantic soap bubbles.

Exposed and Stripped

in order to get to or lay open the heart of the matter, for everybody to see, because it is necessary. It is demanding and exhausting indeed, but the artist will comply. Yet please give her or him time to rest, once the urgency diminishes.

Hoppla

It's always kind of harder to walk on your hands than your feet.


“Pride is the downward drag of all things into an easy solemnity. One "settles down" into a sort of selfish seriousness; but one has to rise to a gay self-forgetfulness... Seriousness is not a virtue. It would be a heresy, but a much more sensible heresy, to say that seriousness is a vice. It is really a natural trend or lapse into taking one's self gravely, because it is the easiest thing to do... For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.” - Chesterton, Orthodoxy