A cup of tea: januari 2016

tisdag 5 januari 2016

Oh my another year is gone

2015 so dark it was. in my diary the year began with Charlie Hebdo and the worry for freedom of speech globally. Twitter began #JesuisRaifBadawi soon after for the poor father of small children imprisoned for having blogged freely against an old regime. The year ended better after the climate summit made an agreement on things also in Paris like a month after another attack in Paris. People all over the world Stars have returned to heaven (anita ekberg) What does Paris matter for me livin in Stockholm then? For the western civilisation it is France which has a lot of history and I was there in Paris 2013 and hope to go visit in the future. All weapons should be banned from earth. Who needs a gun but the hunter? In these days the hunter is overdue because food vegetables are grown in the soil. All vegetarians are set. Thats a future to look into?

In January I returned to Visby for spring in Gotlands Konstskola. We learned about filmmaking, to take a photo, make a 3min film, even some stop motion. Then as it were an exhibition in May we got the time to do our own projects. Alba chose photo, Sofia body painted and photographed the dancers, Elin made a wall full of printmaking screen, some clay figure, aquarelle, a bit of this and that. Elina made three lamp shades with beautiful pattern on silk paper like, Desiree made a puzzle, Gabriel had his nice oil painting, Amanda had her scary short film and there were some thing more on display because we had two rooms at the Gotlands konstmuseum to exhibit. I had my two wooden marionettes named Joe and Dot, the wall of Visby in dry pastell (a painting that still await to be framed in a roll because it got a bit too big for the local frame maker), a 3rd thing I did combo of Percy and Marguerite from TSP and the words "the greatest thing I'll ever know is to love and be loved again" (from the song of Nature boy). Bye to Gotland and Hello Täby.

In the summer I became more involved with Roslagsmålarna, and offered to make their new homepage which is done six months later, with a little help from my friends... by halftime I threw out the first idea and begun with a new, wordpress made it easier

printmaking screen, 3 colors

This august she begun Printmaking school where she got the opportunity to make her first book "It's handmade with 200 blank white pages, sewn in and glued all by myself." Me like. Many books to come I hope for this year.

So a shortlist for the 2015 in culture for me personally

Happening of the Year: Trip to Barcelona(mom 60y birthday)

Fun fact: Win of ESC 2015: Sweden, Måns Zelmerlöw - Heroes

Song of the year: Sabina Ddumba - Effortless

Film of the Year: Så ock på jorden av Kay Pollack

TV-serie of the year: Jordskott av Henrik Björn

Book of the year: Global Eating Disorder by Gunnar Rundgren(Released dec 2014)

Summing up the year, I've learned lots and hope to someday find that somebody to share it with.