Mosaics from November 2011

Things I love Thurdays 3.11.11


The dreamweaver's apprentice


Things I love Thurdays 10.11.11


Goddess Nostalgia


Things I love Thurdays 17.11.11


I remember


Things I love Thursdays 24.11.11


The beauty in you



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Wishcasting Wednesday

Every now and then, I take part in Jamie Ridler's Wishcasting Wednesday.
It's a nice thing to share wishes, a powerful tool.

Today's wish is: What is your greatest wish?

As I thought about it, it came straight from the heart: Coming home!

Home, whereever that maybe...
I was born in Berlin-West and had to leave it when I was 3 years old. When I came back 30 years later, this town wasn't the same anymore. Don't get me wrong, it's so great that the wall has fallen down at last, but....I have never had the feeling of being at home, only when I was in England. Then everything falls into the right places. Germany is such a cool place(and I don't only mean the weather), what am I doing here? Why can't I go away? Is it really about money?
And where is the one, my soulmate that gives me the feeling to be at home? Why can't I give that feeling to myself?

Maybe I am an old soul and most of my soul tribe members are on the other side. I cannot shed this feeling of loneliness all the time, it really drives me mad.
So I just want to come home. Where ever that maybe.

Thanks for sharing this with me.

Stuck!!!

Rien ne vas plus.
No more collages, no more journals, no more nothing. I have done nothing since weeks.
I wanted to make the "Invisible letters to Max part 2", but no way.... I can't.
It's a bit embarrassing ("Ha, she never even made it to #2!"), but there is nothing I can do about it.

I can blame it on the darker season. Lovesickness. Change of diet. Growing old(er). A sense of loneliness.
But it won't change anything. So I am waiting....

Words of enlightment highly appreciated! Thank you.

Fall

Mosaics in October 2011

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Invisible letters to Max 1/12

This is my new art project. It all started with my friend Max, who is something like my male muse, he told me, if he could afford it, he would buy one of my collage books every month.
So I invented this as an art project. He will get the mini books, one every month and I will send him hunting for new material all over Cologne (unfortunately he does not live in Cornwall).
So what you see here is the first of twelve, there will be one "invisible letter" every month.



















Thank you Max for inspiring me!

Online Anniversary: A message to my readers

LaWendula MP3

I hope you don't find my English too annoying, it's the first time I have ever done this and not the best sound quality too, but it comes straight from the heart. Thanks for listening!

Stagger

This is a small book, I've made in 1990, using a story I have written in 1989.
"Taumel" means "stagger".
It's about a young woman who loves to walk on roofs at night and has the dream to spread her wings and fly on day. There is a man she knows, who told her he had tried and it just worked out fine. But she does not dare to do it. When she has nearly given up, he suddenly appears on the roof from his nightflight, lands near her, takes her hand and together they fly into the night.





I have used Gouache colors and colored ink for this book. It's written on white paper. Then I went to the copy shop and made inverted copies of it, so the white turns into black and gives this book the night flair I wanted to have in it.
And the light green ink I used, turning into red...



I have found it today in an old box under my bed.

From here to

You won’t be able to keep the light
The season’s tilt over to fall
The blue sky, soon past.
Another lonely autumn, another lonely winter.
But better this than been chased, knowing, it’s wrong,
cramped in places you do not belong,
the assimilation to normality
for what?
Here however the free spirit is breathing.
All is possible,
Forever my from-here-to-place.

Stack of Mini Books

Talking about stacks, do you remember Seth's post from a few days ago?
I have made 23 Collage Mini books by now!
Here are some of them:

The others have travelled round the world, some are in France, one in England, one in NYC, one in the Netherlands.
And some in Germany.

Don't know when this phase will end, but no end in sight by now. So I am busy again.


Here is the latest one. It's called "Dissolution".

Tables, corners, shelfs, places of creativity

Parts of my home. Hope you enjoy to see what it looks like at LaWendula’s.

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