I’m the KING of the CASTLE
to be happy
to be totally happy – that is an ecstatic feeling you forget about everything & there is this moment… maybe even a long moment – the world is perfect, all is right…
I am looking for that experience again – I see it with kids quite often -
she gave an answer…
this is what she said
if you cant read it :
A BUNCH OF HOOLIGANS VS ONE BRAVE MAID ???
MY COLOURS VS YOUR PURE HATE !!!
so i think my guess was right – my son say’s maybe they where upset because she over-sprayed some of their stuff – well – it’s just bad – i was so happy to see a girl out there …
Transit
on my way to the studio I ride my bike through viennas leagal graffiti – zone
I like that – there is great stuff – & frequently changing
yesterday – on the way to the studio I watched a girl spraying & it looked quite promising – on may way back home she was almost done & it was awesome (in the 2 years of frequenting this route I have only seen one other girl spraying – so that also made me extra curious!)
then this morning – I was disappionted – I saw this:
some guy – obviously – had destroyed it – just for the heck of it – usually there is respect for the work & somebody will take care to get himself a nice underground & then start working & trying to top the work… – but this was different & it made me wonder – from what I could see the work of destrucktion was writing his name – it was like pissing on the girls work
well I am not familiar with the content & context of graffiti – so probably I am missing out on some things here, but what it looks like to me – is that in this scene girls have a hard time!
PERFORMING in GRAZ
I will perform ZENTRIFUGE 
KULTURa
5 Generationen der Steirische Künstlerinnenszene
Eröffnung: 9. Juni, 18 Uhr
mit LR Bettina Vollath
9. 6. bis 9. 7., galerie kon-temporär, griesplatz 10, 8020 graz.
I hope the rain will stop & some of you will come & join me
WAYS OF SEEING
I am reading John Berger & I am impressed – about the point of view I am taking while I am painting…
… But the essential way of seeing women, the essential use to which their images are put, has not changed. Women are depicted in a quite different way from men – not only because the feminine is different from the masculine – but because the ‘ideal’ spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him. If you have any doubt about that this is so, make the following experiment. Choose an image of a traditional nude. Transform the woman into a man. Either in your mind’s eye or by drawing on the reproduction. Then notice the violence which that transformation does. Not to the image, but to the assumptions of a likely viewer.
getting bigger – getting closer
the next painting slowly emerging – I want to get an even closerlook – so let’s make it bigger – which isn’t really what I can make visible through the internet – where everything fits into the screen no matter how big or small it is !
this time you can take a small glimse of the studio – in the back there is still the last painting – which I just sold – fresh from the eazle so to say!
I just looked through last years dokumentation -
& found this panorama:
http://panoramas.cgtechniques.com/masc-osei/2009-05-21%20Masc/index.html?src=Raum1.mov
quit amazing view of the space – …you almost miss the paintings whirling round …
EXAMPLE
here you can see me rehearsing & figuring out in my studio – & the you see where I take it next
there is still way to go…
you are welcome to propose – if you have an idea!
continuous distraction
it seems like life is continuously producing distraction – so it is very hard to concentrate & stick with the things you want to develop – I wanted to figure out a specific touch / a precise move – however to call it in words – it is meant to be put in colors & light – anyway, I was getting there … but my son got scarlet fever – back in the studio the electricity broke down & I am saving my paintings from the dust
life – all the material involved – got in conflict with ideas & ideals again!
it is like in the game: 3 steps ahead… back to start
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