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The way we communicate is getting more and more impersonal. Instead of a phone call we exchange text messages on our cellphones.
We have so many communication tools available to us and we often choose to abuse of the more impersonal ones. Some people even steer away from email and only communicate on MSN!
That’s just silly.
Yes, [...]

Writting Insecurity

We all got insecurities that need work. And recently, as I started to write more here on the blog, I acknowledged one more. It’s not new, it’s always been with me, but just now I fully realize it.
“Why should I write something that millions of people already wrote about?”
Why not? Millions wrote about and millions [...]

back to, Sketching

In the pursue of what I wanted to do for a living, I once stayed home a whole year painting for possible exhibitions. I did a few, collective and solo, but in the end that wasn’t it for me. I didn’t wanted to exhibit paintings my whole life.
Ever since I was a small kid, I [...]

Jewelry, a personal dilemma…

Three years ago I entered jewelry school. I went in curious, and learned that I liked it more than I imagined. But now there’s been something bothering me.
I like working with metals and making jewelry out of it. But then, lately, I feel like the end result is just something superficial and materialist! I don’t [...]

A personal quest on IDENTITY.

I’ve been working my brains out, for a long time now, trying to find the answer to “Who am I?”. I know the basics, name, age , etc. But who am I beyond that?
I’ve been wanting to make this website more personal and less of a static portfolio.
Jewellery isn’t my identity, so why should my [...]

What do you do? - “I’m an Artist!”

This is just a little bit of minor venting.
A while ago I met a group people, who were all into art and connected to it in some way. And in introductory conversation they all always answered the same to my question: “What is it that you do?”. “I’m an Artist!” they said back and stared. [...]

(artistic) Identity?

Being an artist. What does it mean? What is an artist supposed to do? How does one survive? How does one exist?
Is it someone who experiences life and then recreate that through a medium? Is it someone who shows the world their skills? Is it just someone with creative ideas?
Or is it maybe just a [...]

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