Hello,
How is everything?
I’m glad you liked the flower as it really represents home to me!
With regard to my piece, I had already decided to make it in wax and cast in silver.
It is melting … .. Let’s hope!
By making the piece I am bound to continue to think about migration and being from somewhere else.
I am also curious about the that we are sharing thoughts and ideas with someone who just met, I only knew of your pieces.
Sometimes I run out of words … … … … … .. and I am left thinking about this project … … …
cariños
sam
Chequita Nahar
Hi Ketli,
How are you, i am sorry for being away for so long. Due to some personal circumstances I was not able or better said not capable of getting behind the computer for some inspiring talks.
But I did made some pieces and I will make pictures of them and load them so you can see them.
chequita
Sebastian Buescher
Hello.
The book is called ‘Dark Side of the Light Chasers’ by Debbie Ford (she has written many many books and I chose to get this one. They are all quite similar I imagine. It is a bit cheesy at times (and American), but the message is meaningful, I think, and expressed with many different examples to make sure you understand what she is talking about). I am sorry to hear about your friend. It sucks to go through this because it shows you how vulnerable and ‘not in control’ we really are. I am thinking a lot about all this kind of stuff right now, ie souls, that our bodies are like cars for our souls, what really matters and so on. I think I have even come up with my own idea/concept on all of this. I call it my ‘Light-Bulb Theory’. In a nutshell (and I won’t get into it tooooooo far so you will fall asleep on your end, not to mention other readers out in the world), I am saying that every human being, when born, is like a bright burning light-bulb. This light is our soul burning bright, bringing to us everything we need/want/desire. As we get older, we disown aspects of ourselves, so we stick black electric tape over the bulb, blocking out the light. After 30 years, there is no more light, only darkness, heaviness, etc. We continue to spend all of our energy blocking out the light. Spiritual awakening comes in and this is a process of taking the black tape off and letting the bright light shine through again. So all in all (and there is more) everything we need is already here, in us, and all we need to do is let it shine out and to stop blocking it with our energy.
 This morning I took pictures of the new work (titled ‘Environment’) and then arranged them like this in Photoshop. It took a while and I am happy with this image. My main source of inspiration has always been natural history museums, archaeological arrangements, findings, etc. When I started with jewellery, everything was made in this kind of style (but that faded out and nearly disappeared because things had to be wearable). I am glad that you want to add things to your work (always nice to set a whole scene). I also love your top view photo, how all the elements blend together. I am curious to know what our work will look like together.
Have a good weekend……bye
Dani Soter
Hello Sebastian!
I loved this whole process you’ve been through, along with your work. It’s very symptomatic, don’t you think?
I feel very sad these days for a dear friend of mine is very ill. I want her alive and I’ve been placing a lot of energy wishing her recovery. Our work is about life, death, with generation of new cycles. All of these issues have been reflected – as in a mirror? – in my life lately.
I enjoyed your art installation. The way you tell a story leading to new ideas is very interesting. I feel it like an almost ‘archeological’ arrangement which compels me to think, trying to figure things out. What’s the title?
My jewel is also a small art installation. All of a sudden you open up new vistas for me, leaving me with a desire to add something more.
For now my piece is like this…
Bye, Sebastian!
ps: the book passage you sent me is fantastic. It is exactly what I feel and what I am trying to convey with my art piece. What is the title of this book? Who wrote it?
Luzia Vogt
origami bird
Dear Thelma
Here are three pictures o f a folded goose or duck (?), an origami example, which a Japanese girl gave me once as a present. It is so small and delicate. I am happy I could save it up to now. I thought of unfolding it for you. I do it if you like me too. I might be able to fold it back. Maybe I will fold something else? I really like your idea of reverse. It is very interesting. Especially if you give someone else your undone folding to re-fold it. As there are different rules and backgrounds something new will arise.
I put all three pictures, as I like the different shapes, twists and corners from the same 3-d-form.
I will get back to you soon.
Have a great sunny day.
Luzia
(Spring seems to tiptoe and tease a bit outside today here.)
 
Hey Agnieszka!
When I saw your photos I thought about xenophobia, and it relates to the phrase grass is not greener on the other side since there are so many possibilities wheater you let people in or not either its on your life, on this beach , in your country….influences are endless it depends on how easy you get bored therefore how much change or routine you need in your life ( security vs risk and all the things that come along with both ends) “ when you get to the other side, you just may wanna come back…. ” its hard to decide on one thing once you have tasted so many, maybe its easier to remain with in your area as this signs suggest, but easy is not always the best….
 
I saw the photo you sent me, and its ironic since this is one of the worst accidents to the enviroment, but in this photo you can see how the vegetation grew again and took its place again, kind of the cycle of regenaration -> this relates to the idea of migration, kind of regenerating ones life in the gray area or out of it, its all a cycle, finding the green.
I really like the phrase ” grass is not always greener on the other side”. It can have many approaches. To me every side has its green part, not as better but as different. It all depend on the eye of the beholder . I like to show my green side of my actual area (importance of nature) so as a jewelry function this can be carried around with you as you walk into different areas.
Mirla Fernandes
Dear Kajsa,
your package has arrived since the 27th. I must tell you that everytime I need to post something, it take AGES…Even to read the blog, it takes a lot to download all the content.
It is weird, I don’t know if it is only with me, but this is why I prefer to leave links instead of uploading photos.Please check the links to see how things are going!
I loved the material to do drawings first. But I have started something for the jewelry piece too.
RIV ÄNDA HIT
Dear Maria,
How are you doing? Sorry for being silent for some days.I found an interesting image for you dealing with issues civilization contra nature but from completely different angle (!), please look here.
http://www.corbisimages.com
Please write the name and number (Terra 42-19723192) in the window for search and hopefully you can look at it.
Terra 42-19723192
Vegetation Intruding on Empty School in Pripyat
Empty schoolrooms in Pripyat, once the largest town in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone with 49,000 inhabitants, stand as testament to the sudden and tragic departure after the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident in 1986.
I am working on an idea we talked about before. The grass is not greener on the other side of the fence. Sayings pretend often to be so definite like they would own the truth about life. In fact this particular one is really in between, (in the grey area!) It depends from which side of the fence you look…
Finally some other pictures which intrigues me. What do you think when you see them ?
I hope to post some work in progress soon.
Best greetings
Agnieszka
Sebastian Buescher
Hi….
So now I have decided on something new. I have been doing and making for the past five days (a bit like a mad scientist down in the basement). It’s an environment (installation) made of jewels, objects, things. Here are some images. I hope that this will make it to Holland without interruption (otherwise I will probably experience an eruption). What and where are you at?
BYE
papier maché, pigment
Guigui Kohon
Hola Terhi!
Te envío el enlace de un artículo que salió aquí, sobre el grave problema ecológico que se produce debido a la minería a cielo abierto.
Este tema me tiene muy preocupada, si bien esto ya viene sucediendo desde hace tiempo, creo que mi vuelta al país me ha hecho verlo más de cerca.
Aquí podrás leer uno de los tantos casos de Argentina:
http://www.diariolibre.info/imagenes_notas/DairioLibre_info-revista_viva_el_oro_y_el_barro.pdf
Hi Terhi! (gold and mud)
I send you the link of an article about the serious environmental problem occurs due to open pit mining.
This topic has me very worried, but this is already happening for some time, think back to my country made me a closer look.
Here, you can read one of the many cases in Argentina:
http://www.diariolibre.info/imagenes_notas/DairioLibre_info-revista_viva_el_oro_y_el_barro.pdf
En Somnium el joven islandés Duracotus y su madre Fiolxhide, acuerdan despegar “cuando la Luna empiece a eclipsarse por el Este”
In Somnium, Duracotus a young Icelandic and his mother Fiolxhide, agree to take off “when the moon begins to be eclipsed by the East”
…Pero entonces, ¿qué pensar de todas esas hierbas, pócimas y pieles de cabra, por no hablar de su amistad con los demonios? Katherine Kepler la madre del autor fue acusada (por causa del libro) de brujería en 1615 y juzgada en 1620. Eludió la hoguera de milagro, pero murió de todos modos a los seis meses de salir de prisión. Los viajes a la Luna salían caros en la época.
…But then ?what to make of all these herbs, potions and goat skins, not to mention her friendship with the demons? Katherine Kepler the author’s mother was accused (because of the book) of witchcraft in 1615 and tried in 1620. Miraculously she escaped the fire but died anyway within six months after leaving prison. Trips to the Moon were expensive at that time.
Ineke Heerkens
 
 American Beauty intermezzo
Todo lo que de aquel suelo nace o sobre aquel suelo camina es de un tamaño monstruoso.
De Somnium
Everything that borns in this land or is walking through this land is from a monstrous size.
From Somnium
Entre 200 aC y 600 dC en el desierto peruano los antiguos habitantes de Nazca crearon estos geoglifos limpiando la capa superior del suelo rojo oscuro y la piedra, dejando el pálido suelo subyacente expuesto. Esta imagen del satélite Ikonos revela una espiral gigante, una araña, y las líneas perfectamente rectas que se extienden por kilómetros en el desierto.
Los dibujos fueron realizados para ser vistos desde el cielo.
(Para ser visto por el viajero de corazón …? Para guiar el regreso de un viaje al corazón …? Para marcar el camino de regreso a casa desde el corazón …?)
 En esta foto se puede ver una avioneta y su sombra
In this picture you can see an airplane and its shadow
Between 200 BCE and AD 600 in the Peruvian desert the ancient Nazca people created these geoglyphs clearing away the dark red top soil and stone, leaving the pale underlying exposed soil. This view from the Ikonos satellite reveals a giant spiral, a spider, and perfectly straight lines that stretch for kilometers across the desert.
The drawings were made to be seen from the sky.
(To be seen by the heart traveler…? To guide the return from heart travel…? To mark the way back home from heart…?)
María Reiche (1903-1998) matemática y arqueóloga nacida en Alemania
que es famosa por su investigación en las líneas de Nazca en Perú.
Maria Reiche (1903-1998) a German-born mathematician and archaeologist
who is famous for her research in the Nazca lines in Peru.
Dear Nano
Here I am again. Time is getting short, I know.
Just to answer your question about the picture I sent: There is no explainable intention about it, I was searching through the www and bumped over it and liked it. I think his work has jewellery-related aspects.
To go for a drink or a coffee it’s definitely a bit far, we live in different spaces, at least geographically, physically I don’t know. I even missed the chance when you have been in Europe. That reminds me of the following anecdote: I went for the premiere of the movie “Wätterschmöker” (weather-smeller), a film about old, traditional weather-prophets of a small valley in Switzerland. The premiere was shown in a nearby city, maybe a one our from there. But still one of the prophets said I am not going, it is too far away (of course he has never been to a foreign country).
What triggered me with this film was the contraste of people being able to read the weather forecast in the nature’s behaving, being so linked to the earth, but on the other hand denying the global warming, the fact of being not interested about the rest of the world. Globalisation versus regionalisation. My question is: do you have to think about the whole world, about globalisation if you live at one place, you spend your vacation at this same place, you don’t eat sushi, but regional products etc?
And that’s something I also want to point out: In this globalised world we are very interested in small, traditional, typical, regional topics (world-music, grandmother food, ethnic jewellery). By the way, for your sketches you are also referring to mapuche-jewellery.
I discovered a book by Iain Chambers about “Migrancy, Culture and Identity”. Very interesting, I will probably tell you more about it.
I picked this sentence from one of your posts because it fits perfectly to the piece I am doing for the exhibition. I will write you more about in an email, but that’s the phrase: “But I tend to think that migration is more about transformation…. a mutation in any kind.” Nano, 2009
Last, but not least, since you wrote more than one time about futbol and even compared it to jewellery, I got this image for you!
Sugarpearls United, 2005
My best wihes to you from cold and snowy Switzerland!
Natalie
hey natalie,
hope you´re great
i sent to your mail few images of work-in-procces here in santiago de chile
abrazos,
nano
Hola Eduardo,
Thanks for the photos of the UNAM library. I already noticed an interest in science (history, geography, philosophy?), but I didn’t know you are so closely connected to the university. What a coincidence I started my slide show with that building two weeks ago. What is it that are you doing at the university?
This may mean that you still use the nearby Copilco station often. Where you worked at the paintings. I can imagine you and the others had to perform some acrobatic feats when balancing with your dish of paint on the scaffolding, now you describe this. :-0 Eeek! No Jackson-Pollock-s on the floor? 
I know Mexico is lying in the Ring of Fire that goes around the Pacific Ocean, one of the main two belts of active volcanoes on earth. About a week ago I saw an episode of a television documentary series, which is very interesting. In this series a ship with scientists, writers and artists aboard sails the same voyage as Darwin did aboard the Beagle two centuries ago. The clipper calls at every port the Beagle did during that 5 years journey around our globe that completely changed our view of the world. In the episode of last week the ship stopped in Valparaiso, Chile –also in this Ring of Fire- where Darwin experienced a heavy earthquake and where he made an expedition into the Andes. To discover stoned trees up the mountains and layers with fossils of organisms that once must have lived on ocean floor. And Darwin was struck by the rich diversity in colour of the stones he found during his trip in this volcanic area.
The close-ups you sent me seem to fit to what I saw and heard in that program: the richness in colours of the stones used by O’Gorman that come from all over your quite volcanic country. (As kids we grew up with the funny Popocatepetl-song.) Also your photos seem to come at just the right moment. In this stage I am thinking about using colour in my work for WGA. I thought about using the colours of the slide I uploaded some time ago: the photo I took from the plane with the patches of the coloured houses. But seeing your photos I want to use the colours O’Gorman used, the colours of the soil. There is a connection between us humans and our soil. People who have died flown back to their countries of origin to get buried in home soil.
A great thing of the UNAM building is, that it depicts your history in your own soil, and also the progression of science. Our changing views upon the word as we know it. Our universe. A few days ago I realized for the first time the common root of the words: universe, universal and university. The place where students and professors gather and examine our world. By using the same colours as O’Gorman did in the murals -stone by stone by stone-, I use Mexican colours, but at the same time natural colours in general. And that’s exactly what my necklace has to do: Mexican and also (part of the) universal.
Eduardo, can I ask you a favour please? Would it be possible to make some more close up photos of the library murals? The slides I took myself ten years ago are not that close as the ones you sent me yesterday. I would like to have a better overview of the colours O’Gorman used. I hope you can do this for me. And note: if you need something I can get you here, let me know that as well please. I can send you the stuff you may need or make photographs for you, record something. Whatever you need!
Here some photos I took this morning. It was snowing again. What’s wrong with winter? We’re not supposed to get that much snow here! Here the tracks of some birds: the ones of the home ground pigeon look like little airplanes on their routes. And note that heavy track in the left down corner of the second image: the biggest, most migratory bird of them all. 
Wish you well and till soon, Peter
 
Sebastian Buescher
Hi Dani.
My work arrived with Valeria the other day and both pieces are broken (see image). I thought I had packed it well and the box is still in good condition, so it is unbelievable that this has happened. But I cannot help to think that this could be a good thing (hence the title of this post). Maybe it all depends on how you look at it and given that we always have a choice, maybe it is wrong to immediately judge this has ‘bad’ or ‘unlucky’. I have to admit that I am not happy with this incident yet because I feel annoyed (my workshop/kiln/stuff has been totally dismantled and I have thrown away years of materials/tools/things). This work completed my cycle, it celebrated the end (or so I thought).
This incident also makes me think about the gold nugget in the block of coal. Getting dirty represents the annoyance, irritation, negative thoughts, etc. Now I will wait for the work to come back to me and then I will see what to do about it. I will uncover the gold nugget, that is for sure, and I do believe that somehow this could be(come) a good thing, but that takes time. I also see this as a cosmic joke, like the universe itself helped me to properly finish the work by snapping both pieces in two. Things that make me go ‘hhhmmmmmm’.
I also read something interesting in a book yesterday:
‘Within each of us lies a solid gold treasure. This golden essence is our spirit, pure and magnificent, open and glowing. But this gold has been covered up by a hard shell of clay. The clay comes from our fear. It is our social mask: the face we show the world. Unconcealing your shadow reveals your mask….’
On a different note, how are you? How is everything?
B Y E
Thelma Aviani
Luzia,
I am the worst person for technology things and was having trouble resizing the pictures. Now that I know a bit how to do it, I had to post the man. Here he is.
I’ll go back to the unfolding now.
Take care
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