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Further experimentation is needed in a barely touched way of designing!

Wishes delivered! Fast forward to an inspiring year and have a merry Christmas in the meanwhile.

If it matters to you: drawing with Faber Castell Pitt pens, pencil and soft shading with watercolour in a Moleskine cahier. The 70gr paper does not handle much more. Watercolours are rarely intense. But to keep a diary like this one the paper quality is more than adequate.

🎃 Sleep tight tonight and don’t let the bedbugs bite. 🎃

I used to call this type of serendipity an exercise. This was wrong and rather an example of procrastination and uncertainty. When we work on a piece, in no matter what way, don’t we always try to make the best of it?

Note: the portret of the man with a paperhat is not my head. He's a reader of daily newspapers and sure doesn't know where he is going to.

With the emphasis on 'work'.

Together with Henri Michaux, Dotremont is my role model when it comes to discretely practicing my art. Therefore a study of his hands was inevitable.

Or can it be a collection of holiday sketches with some asemic writing because I just felt lazy in my transat and didn’t know what to write about?

Mistral, who are you?

Next to the fact that we miss all that, for me personally it seems that this way of journaling with text and images is very much connected to a sense of place. It's been weeks since I've put any meaningful line on paper. This does not follow the advice I read in so many therapeutic books and on websites. Journaling, for the moment, does not relieve me from heartache and pain.

Music: Christian H. Sötemann, The Aural Rear-view Mirror / https://archive.org/details/theauralrearviewmirror

"A higher education is only a higher form of ignorance. Increasingly, we teach more and more about less and less,” Andy Martin writes in In the age of Wikipedia, is it better to study everything?

Note to self: stop searching for expensive unspoiled tomoe river paper because it’s discontinued. It’s cool to use old printer paper or notebook pages.

New blog post, since long, on my renewed website. All quite irrelevant information for this world. (no mention of corona or COVID-19 in the piece)

In the blogpost on my website I compare it to different kind of bicycles. Kind of bizar when rereading it after a year. And especially because I don’t have a bike.