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IT WAS QUITE A FEELING ...
September 5, 2019 at 5:11 pm,
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the other day as I walked to my artschool (this old schoolhouse in which I create art) for the first time of the semester ...
I was carrying a bag on my back that I had bought five years ago as we first moved here to Järna. I had bought it in order to carry my food to my job in Stockholm.
Then, in February, when I had said "goodbye" to that job, I changed the usage of the bag into a "school bag". I wrote on it, with big letters: www.artschool.com. Doing so, was both a feeling of victory and of tremendous freedom!
That morning, as I walked to my artschool, in the late August, the air was crispy, just as it is when schools begin here in Sweden — and I felt like I was a little schoolgirl again. Thrilled.
I am painting a little boy now. A commission. His name is Sigge. I have been boringly tired, lately. No energy. No spirit. Heavy body. But on this day ... as I sat down in front of my easel, deciding to focus on painting his eyes ... with my dog laying at my feet, listening to Josefins and Hannas pod "Gudskvinna", my soul was nourished. A quiet and peaseful joy took place within me — and the work went well ...
How are you feeling this fall?
