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Been hanging out at Frej’s place for most of the day today, except for when I went into town and met up with Åsa and Klara in Slottskogen. Åsa gave me a load of sour dough bread that I’ve been eating off since… And then, PRAISE THE LORD or whatever, I went and got our router back repaired and actually working! (More than you can expect from 3 which is absolutely the crappiest business I’ve dealt with.) So now we’ve got internet back home again, which is really lucky because I was getting seriously worried what to do with my life and math studies and such.
Here are some pictures from Frej’s place. A caged duck and a man jumping into a cloud.
Popes & clouds…
Kitchen wall. I’ve been sitting in that chair reading Zaharia Stancu & eating sourdough bread with ginger tea for quite a while now, and it’s been a pretty damn nice day.
“When I’m in nature everything falls into place. I’m just one tiny piece of a big jigsaw puzzle, and I like that. For me religion isn’t intellectual ; it’s more related to physics. It’s about things exploding and planets moving in synchronisation and where we are in all of that. When you consider that stuff, some book in the Bible seems ridiculous to me.
Religion isn’t about speaking and it’s not about people, it’s a cosmic thing about your place in nature and space. When people spend too long in cities they get neurotic and paranoid, but if you put them in the mountains for two weeks all those small worries drop down like dead flies.” – Björk
Oops! I posted the last entry, then when I was to edit it I must have deleted all the content by accident and gone to sleep. What I said was just that Sara Granér is wonderful. And that I can’t translate these, sadly.
Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war… -Wikipedia
Sadly I haven’t named all of them with their title when I’ve saved them and so I don’t have them, and don’t have the energy to look them all up…
The Widow
Käthe Kollwitz was one of my first artist loves! I found out about her when I was about 16 and was supposed to paraphrase an art piece for school and I used the one below (Memorial sheet for Karl Liebknecht) but themed as the Death of Salvador Allende (my political art pretentiousness aspirations were high! The finished drawing was not so good but still…)
Bread
I recommend the Käthe Kollwitz museum in Berlin, I went there with John when I was 17 and wish I could go again. From what I remember it had like three (?) floors full of original drawings and etchings and we were there for ages cause I couldn’t stop looking…
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It was with great sadness I read my friendslist on Livejournal today and found out that the inspiring, brave and wonderful Eva had passed away.
I only had the opportunity of following her journal for a few months but I’ve gotten so many words of wisdom and life inspiration from her beautiful life and love view. I hope you will too get something out of reading back through her livejournal & maybe, if you’re not already, also consider becoming an organ donor.
If you’re in or around Stockholm on April 2nd you should come to Vinca Minor’s opening art show on Frejgatan 14, starting at 18.00. The ones showing art are Simon Nestor Lundberg, Lina Nääs and (wooo!!) Frej Nicolaisen Sidén! I will try to be there aswell, depends a bit on the exam I have that week & the prices of train or bus fare. But I think I’ll make it! Come!!!
Ziggy waking Frej up after Saturday’s party. He has gotten so big since the last picture I posted of him, I just realized!
The success!!
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Today I finished my home exam on sustainable urban development. In the midst of writing the last part Suss came in to my room with two lovely packages I had gotten in the mail! Perfect timing as I was getting a bit grumpy! Especially since I was hoping to get done earlier in the day than I was so that I would have been able to go to a lecture at my uni where Carl Schlyter & David Jonstad and some other really interesting people were speaking. :(
Becka had sent me a weather diary from 1930 and a bunch of really pretty buttons; three different anchor ones and one with a deer on it! Among others! Now I know everything about how long ices should last & the monthly temperatures of swedish cities in the 30s!
And I also got a poster print by Naomi! Gonna frame it and put it up in the apartment somewhere, maybe on our “pretty wall”. Naomi is opening a gallery in Stockholm by the way, Vinca Minor! I don’t remember when it opens though, but soon!
After being done writing I followed Suss to a thrift store where she had reserved a table that I helped her carry home. Fell in love with an AMAZING teak make up table with matching chair, two adjustable mirrors and a light in the middle. The little chair has had it’s fabric changed to a terrible one though. But if someone is in Göteborg and has 1400 kr, and loves teak, and feel like changing fabrics, go to Ebbes Hörna by Bellevue and check it out because I can’t afford it and that makes me sad! I also bought Animal Farm there since I haven’t read it since I was like 14, and also got a pair of lovely vertically striped 80s leggings (made in west germany they say!), and weird iron-on bow things I do not yet know much use for but I’ll think of some.
Now I’m going to make sushi to celebrate my handed in exam & then watch more Absolutely Fabulous with Suss again! She has all seasons!
//Karin
- i'm Karin, I'm 23 & live in Göteborg in Sweden. (grew up in Jönköping.) I run an online vintage shop called Lily of the Valley.
I like antique things, I buy way too many books with the last cash I own, I am interested in body modification, art, knowledge and Frej. I am a vegan and pretty involved in environmental issues. I've studied human ecology and CSR, going on to environmental revisioning this fall..
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