drawing | image {pandora's box}

the week was strange, filled with all sorts, and exhaustion creeps up on me this morning. nonetheless i'm pulling out stuff from under dust mites and share with you some images that never made it to an album. to all weekend players : thanks so much!

do you have shelf flowers in your cupboard, meaning old, unused stuff that wants out, but you never find the courage? because i have stuff and photos going strong in my closet.

what to do with images of the past, eating up space besides spawning dust. because, open the hornet's nest and you'll be had. you'll be spending hours. oh, it is a joyful task, you won't hear me pretend otherwise. still. 

can we agree that today's images are far less tangible than developed paper memories. we can savely call our today's overload on images virtual. seductive, yet elusive. colour rich, yet fading fast. present, but not really.

enthralled, imaginative and creative we are. we stock up on ideas through images on a daily basis. i mean, am i the only one wanting to kick pinterest in the butt, every now and then, because it is in a word addictive? and i haven't {literally} started on instagram yet.

i find i do not often read books anymore. on the train, i prefer to leaf through an inspiring (image laden) magazine, making surrounding noises work for me rather than hate all that commuter babble.

and yet. the image is no enemy, not to the word, it isn't. not to our lives. images make us feel alive. and with that they offer us moral codes, they challenge us, day and night. maybe that's the bitch, the 24/7 bit. 

maybe that's where we come in, as human beings. to pull the stop if need be. to put a stop to the imaginary, subconscious streaming and to make way to conscious symbolism, every so often. maybe we do need to stick our heads down that memory box periodically. or down the sand even, and see what happens. what happened here is i cut public houses from a berlin poster and stuck them in grömitz sand last july, thus creating an... other image. 

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