Irascibility

So what drives you mad? What makes you act with uncomprimising rashness? When I was in Venice the driver of a vaporetto wouldn't admit a mother and her infant child because the boat was too full. A male passenger did not agree and he spat on the driver's face. At this moment I couldn't stop myself imagening that if they had had knives - like probably not a century ago - at least one of them wouldn't have survived the situation.

Iconoclasm

The signature had to be, the impact also, how else could he stress his importance, his distinctiveness, when creating or producing something for lack of courage, skill and subject matter was no option.

Free Will

choice  failure

liber arbiter

Hold On

My Mocking Attitude

Quite decisively he drew a pretty fine line.


considering having a brush with him

Brush Up

as new brushes go

Creation

It takes a master's hand to build up all the ingredients that would lead to a tragic ending and then to let them implode in truthful absurdity, while the actual tragedy has happened somewhere else and lent well deserved dignity to its protagonists.

My thoughts on Svatá Noc/ Holy Night by Jan Procházka

Perspective

The way one looks at something, and the slight distortion that might happen.

Precious

just how much of yourself you had to give to get a thing

of time, labour, thought, love

if indeed at least you had the decency to dedicate the effort of movement to whatever prize you had in mind


you'll feel happy

Nothing to Prove

On the very day that I mused about the idea that an artist has nothing to prove, I learned about this quote by poet Herman de Coninck: "...This society is all about possessing. Poetry belongs to the realm of being."


Once it is in the world, it is.

It makes it also easier to share, if something just is and is not possessed (exclusively)!

In the Spur

 Turn, turn, turn - an interesting kind of tango

Will

If Peter de Graef is right and faith is predominantly an act of will, no wonder it can feel willful sometimes. Yet, it also helps to endure.

An interesting talk by Peter de Graef, for what he is about, is, that there has to be something balancing the rational(ised) world, the world of commerce.

I'd Rather

"Muß man schon die Zeit zwischen Geburt und Tod mit irgendeiner Tätigkeit ausfüllen, so ziehe ich das Schreiben alberner Geschichten dem albernen Handwerk eine Polizisten, Richters, Generals oder henkers vor, denn so habe ich im schlimmsten Fall nur Zeit vergeudet.../Since one has to fill the time between birth and death with some occupation anyway, I prefer the writing of silly stories to the silly craft of a policeman, a judge, a general or a hangman, because at worst I will have wasted time..." - Jan Procházka, Solang uns Zeit bleibt/ As Long As We Will Have Time

Go Ahead And Smile

o the bittersweetness of it all

to taste the treason to its fullness

for it already was treacherous not to trust

Tough On Me

besieged by gentleness

a dramatic situation that in fact calls for strong action and reaction - o the longing, o the bitterness - but instead the opposition exposes calmness and doesn't try to stop me from leaving all the while being hurt deep inside. How can I resist?! What defense is left?!

Just like my father making me laugh while I'm mad at him. Seriously we should be laughing about ourselves just a little bit more.

Female

It has been suggested that an impulse for art and creativity could be a male womb envy, men being envious of the female power to create. If you care to watch it, even in Peter Greenaways' Nightwatching there is a hint at this assumption.


Conceptional Art

Once I was happily pregnant though, I realised with horror that the end, which is giving birth, was inevitable.

Whatever Gives You Confidence

Sometimes it's decaying apples,  it depends on whoever you are. Smell is maybe essentially the obvious option, since it it the first sense one can or has to depend on.

Touch Me

As much as there is a desire in me to be seduced, in the age of bluntness it is a shame to yield. So dream on.

Choices and Flaws

So choices are hard to make because there are many options and I can take but one, which leaves me always wondering at what a difference those others would have made. Yet again this choice is all I got and these flaws are truly mine and I need to grasp. Yet in yet another turn I may reconsider, that's the true benefit of being alive.

Güte - Benevolence

O my goodness.

The slight expression of sorrow and regret because one is not trusted. The one who knows and understands and will not judge because in the end people should be served and not an ideology. Father Křižulka, the only one who is saving and saved - in the end, as he slightly vanishes accompanied by everything he believes in.

Tovaryšstvo Ježíšovo 

Insolence and Innocence

to never lose sight of the right

be gripped by having not a care in the world

Bourgondisch II

Musicians always make me feel pretty Burgundian.

There is so much somebody knows deep within. So: "What you got to do, do it right."

Bourgondisch of de losse levenshouding in Zuid-Nederland en Belgie

"Burgundian" a word that in Flemish or Dutch not only describes a geographical area but also the liberal, easy attitude to life predominant in the southern Netherlands and Belgium.

So somebody rememberred his friend, their "bourgondisch" relationship and how they were battling with words, "killing" each other just for the fun of it.


So let's live "bourgondisch"!

for example

What a Life!

The wonderful giggle from deep inside as the boy within is tickled by the challenge. Do it again, just to please me!

La Vraie Décadence

die Freude an der Reue - the delight in repentance - Jiří Šotola Grüß den Engel. Richte ihm aus, daß ich warte/ Tovaryšstvo Ježíšovo

Hinter vorgehaltener Hand - With My Hand over My Mouth

If I cover my mouth, it is almost always to not give away my positive emotion - towards another person. Though at times it is better to risk the embarrassment and I fancy we will roll around with laughter.

Obhut - Custodial Care

Nourish and nurture the child that is put into your custody, though it is a lot older than you and it will remain fresh and new, while you grow old.

Towards

Tow

Die Grenzen des guten Geschmacks

the boundaries of good taste

überschreiten - unterschreiten

to overstep - to undercut

Good taste is always something limiting. Therefore use audacity.