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 This page is the informal log of my transiency process, in reverse chronological order. This page is the informal log of my transiency process, in reverse chronological order.
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 +7 - 13 November
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 +What a week! The autumn strongly announced its presence. It is cold and rainy and dark and wet and depressing...Feels like the working season is reaching its hight. Everyone is supper busy and showing each other colourful agendas.
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 +I'm busy too. Too busy for a year of transiency you could say. Currently dealing with 3 different rentals. One of which is a total communication disaster... So bad that i think i've reached transition point. I don't want to deal with such things anymore... From next year on i wont do any catering for the large groups. Rental only is complicated enough.
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 +Some positive things too. With a small Hosting group we went to the forrest. I guided a short walk introducing different values that some trees stands for. I like trees, i like stories about it and i like telling those stories. I see a potential of such walks working as group coaching or team building. 
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 +This is from the book " The Secret Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben
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 +"Why are trees such social beings? Why do they share food with their own species and sometimes even go so far as to nourish their competitors? The reasons are the same as for human communities: there are advantages to working together. A tree is not a forest. On its own, a tree cannot establish a consistent local climate. It is at the mercy of wind and weather. But together, many trees create an ecosystem that moderates extremes of heat and cold, stores a great deal of water, and generates a great deal of humidity. And in this protected environment, trees can live to be very old. To get to this point, the community must remain intact no matter what. If every tree were looking out only for itself, then quite a few of them would never reach old age. Regular fatalities would result in many large gaps in the tree canopy, which would make it easier for storms to get inside the forest and uproot more trees. The heat of summer would reach the forest floor and dry it out. Every tree would suffer.
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 +Every tree, therefore, is valuable to the community and worth keeping around for as long as possible. And that is why even sick individuals are supported and nourished until they recover. Next time, perhaps it will be the other way round, and the supporting tree might be the one in need of assistance.
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 +A tree can be only as strong as the forest that surrounds it."
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 +For a few weeks i've been exploring the possibilities of my new old Nikon F4 and getting more familiar with many buttons and what can it do. I like it. Very slowly we start to understand each other. I feel it is a beginning of a good and long relationship...
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 +"Movies are made from out of darkness as well as light; it is the surpassingly brief intervals of darkness between each luminous still image that makes it possible to assemble the many images into one moving picture. Without that darkness, there would only be a blur. Which is to say that a full-length movie consists of half an hour or an hour of pure darkness that goes unseen. If you could add up all the darkness, you would find the audience in the theatre gazing together at a deep imaginative night."
 +Rebecca Solnit "A field guide to getting lost" 
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 +For a while i've been taking photos from the train windows. Last week i had to travel very early in the morning, just when the sun was coming up and light not yet visible by naked eye. It is my attempt to captures the feeling of slow transformation from darkness to light.
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 +Some beautiful landscapes by Iris Hutegger. She found a brilliant way to merge photography and sewing https://www.lensculture.com/articles/iris-hutegger-textural-landscapes#slide-8
  
  
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 I also want to experiment a lot more with the idea of a portrait. Reading about old methods where in order to be photographed a person had to paint it self white, sit for at least 15-30 min in the same position and put up with different lamps facing you gives me some ideas. It sounds like an cleansing ritual followed by a meditation. I'm preparing a series of workshop for young autistic people under the theme of self-portrait. While now the self portrait associates so much with an instant selfie i would like to try doing it the old way  but using more up to date equipment and see what the result of that would be and what impact it would have on the person sitting for it.  I also want to experiment a lot more with the idea of a portrait. Reading about old methods where in order to be photographed a person had to paint it self white, sit for at least 15-30 min in the same position and put up with different lamps facing you gives me some ideas. It sounds like an cleansing ritual followed by a meditation. I'm preparing a series of workshop for young autistic people under the theme of self-portrait. While now the self portrait associates so much with an instant selfie i would like to try doing it the old way  but using more up to date equipment and see what the result of that would be and what impact it would have on the person sitting for it. 
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 +Some works of long exposure portraits by Sebastian Palmer https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sebastian-palmer-hope-portraits-of-resilience-in-sao-paolo#slide-1
  
  
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 The week ended in Brussels with a delightful design session for a ritual with Barbara, Maja and Ingrid. I like this kind of work. It is very creative, being able to build on each others ideas and something so meaningful as wel.  The week ended in Brussels with a delightful design session for a ritual with Barbara, Maja and Ingrid. I like this kind of work. It is very creative, being able to build on each others ideas and something so meaningful as wel. 
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