Category Archives: Thoughts

Thoughts, ideas, musings

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“…cultivate language based on our emotions that help to amplify our felt experience”

Jul
16
2010
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Reflecting over weight versus content, I see how much all the care on packing my paintings materials to bring them to Krumlov has paid off. Particularly, the raw canvas and the Golden Paint’s gesso made it worth to deal with backpain for more than three…

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My first ‘Krumlov’ painting

Jul
13
2010
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The internal discipline I was anxious about turned out to be something much more practical. To build a routine by defining a daily schedule seems to be working. As it is too hot to work in the morning at my open air studio I embraced the limitation and turned it into liberation.

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Dobrý Den (Good Morning)

Jul
12
2010
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Dobry Den (Good Morning) Advancing from “Thinking” to “Doing”, including getting my recycled plastic containers for mixing paints, took not only intention and time but also lots of organization and learning. I have not started painting yet, though I have been working with ideas and making drafts with my pastels.

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At the End of a Life Cycle the Feeling is of Gratitude

Jun
10
2010
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I just learned today that I am getting my undergraduate degree at the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto with High Distinction. I cannot deny that the recognition of my efforts made me feel quite good. At the same time, I want to…

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The Silence of the Mind

May
07
2010
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I have being searching for the silence spaces of my mind, breathing with my heart after a period of learning how to let it go. My mother passed away on April 25, in the same week my paintings got stolen and I felt that I did not even have to opportunity…

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Mourning for the Stolen Artworks

Mar
24
2010
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The diptych with my portraits of Claro Cosco was stolen from my studio last weekend. I am still mourning its loss as the composition included relief prints of sixteen plates and an acrylic on canvas. Losing a piece like this is like losing a beloved one.

Studio Life and the Art that comes from it

Mar
04
2010
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I am having the opportunity experience the studio as a place for thought and for making art. It is just amazing to be at that space where there are no other distractions and I am expected to make art, whatever meaning it can or cannot have. I have had my…

Marry me, Jens T. Wollesen! A Facebook Group for Informed Art History Students.

Feb
27
2010
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This webpage is worth visiting, at least as a proof that student life still has an unreplaceable fun character. More than 50 students have already register on ‘Marry me Jens T. Wollesen.’ Jens T. Wollesen is one of the most amazing professor I have met a…

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What Replaces Sittings?

Feb
16
2010
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Maybe it is really the technology that changed our relationship with time, in particular in relation with the will to be available for sittings and generously help an artist. I had this agonizing experiment by trying to put my beloved family together to…

To Choose or to Be Chosen: This is the Feminist Question

Feb
10
2010
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I come from a family where to discover and shape myself as a political being was the mandate of life. Even the experiences at the university were mainly to shape the person as a citizen of the world and enable her/him to make a difference. My grandfather…

Pipilotti Rist: poetics, beauty and pro-aesthetics

Feb
05
2010
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Finally, I got my ‘Identity: Young Artists’  investigation at the point I could start the sketches and exploring the composition. I have four participants and the schedule to start the sittings and the interviews is on going. By trying to see the world t…

No Time to Cook.

Feb
03
2010
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It has been a labor intensive week at the print studio, preparing the presentation on Mieke Bal for the Time Based Arts course and writing a short essay on Michael Snow’s Recent Snow exhibition. It has been busy but also very rewarding. As far as learnin…