Monthly Archives: February 2014

Draw and select

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. (Lucian Freud) I started my first sketches with the idea that I’d like to focus on plants and flowers, but would also want to try out fruit and vegetable to see how I got along with these different […]

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Exhibition Visit: Mike Kelley

I visited the Mike Kelley Exhibition at Moma PS 1, Long Island City, New York. I think this was the first time that I deliberately went to an exhibition of modern art. My elder sister had notified me about Mike Kelley’s exhibition in New York. I had never heard of this artist and looked him […]

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Approaching Part 5

Now this is the second try to write down my reflections on the topic. I have experienced some days going from sheer panic to slight relief, because I had accidentally deleted the database of this blog. The entire work of 2 years was gone… but thanks heaven, my website provider does regular database backups, and […]

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