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24 Aralık 2010 Cuma

sewt, tears, or the salt sea / ter, gözyaşı ya da tuz denizi

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Do you know a cure for me?
"Why yes", he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."
"Salt water? "I asked him.
"Yes", he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea."

karen blixen: seven gothic tales
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this one was for Sibel Diker, lovely artist living in istanbul at the moment. we were exchanging emails about this exhibit we will put up soon...
and she shared some ideas that got me inspired! she is onto a very strong thing. and so again a series of connections and i come across the quote above.
sweat, tears or the salt sea.

i swim in my dreams. i do not remember. still i have a feeling that i swim in my dreams.
star gazer, daydrifter... shapeshifterNightGAzer... nightDrifter... yes coming up with new self-expressions
re-born in vienna.
i believe so.


21 Aralık 2010 Salı

the point of being alive


‎"What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?"

Kurt Vonnegut (Bluebeard)

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too busy of a schedule. too busy to upload images to the blog. this blog is a sort of measurement. and now this measurement tells me to slow down. and so shall i. after tomorrow:P as still a few dv's to capture. preperation for work in the holidays. the best thing i love about holidays is that it is a quiet time where i can work and therefore relax the most. lot of thoughts; viele exhibitions.

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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
*William Butler Yeats

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."
*Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea)

"But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond."
*Georges Bataille

"I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."
*Jane Wagner (The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe)
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"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
— Gustave Flaubert

21 Kasım 2010 Pazar

kurt vonnegut

this was last week i guess. had fish soup at the kantine. not a good idea... next time i ever go, i should order a lentil soup. that was the recommendation of the waiter... yes i asked for recommendation after already having eaten the so called fish soup.

kantine is by the museums quartier. nice atmosphere; nice music; i guess also good food but i did not taste that yet. however, the lemon grass tea was good for the soul and not so good for the pocket/purse. well, it is ok. once in a while. still i cook much better at home in the 3rd district.

finally, i bought sucuk from the shop that is open till 10pm everyday. of course it is run by a turkish family. today i met the mother and the daughter. the mother recommended me the brand for the sucuk. amazing, i never thought i would like to eat meat.

but it all happened yesterday around 9 pm. after visiting steph's exibition near TAborstrase (in tribute to vasıf kortun). so i went to cafe boem. koppstrase. 16th district. there was the photographer, the father of 2 lovely children: robert. and there was another drinking mastika. it smelled so good! and i was hungry. and there was free food! a pot of white cheese, olives, olive oil and sucuk! it is bosnian sucuk and i was so hungry it was so good. along with mastika it was better. a lovely girl, MAya was at the counter. i had some handcreme - left it to her- glad it will be good for her hands that get dry due to washing glasses all the time. yes so that was all the story of sucuk. i started to eat sucuk here in vienna because of dropping by an i guess serbian cafe and eating bosnian sucuk...

"tryin to figure out where truth begins"
"more or less; one big mess"
smolik is singing: s.dreams

agony over love (that is about to be wasted)



the night turns into yet another morning, as two peopleare seen in a conversation, walking along the streets in the 16th district.
they have just left the bar. they worked behind the counter at the bar at Cafe Bohem. I saw them. Making jokes, talking to people who asked for a drink or so.
at cafe bohem wa sthe party for celebrating the green-red coalition in wien.

12 hours later, she leaves with some linden tea in a nice glass container;
and with the stubborn capacity to still be able to love in the name of life and being alive;
she thinks that tears are romantic anarchists - turning all perception into a liquid state...
he is the one who is utterly sad; she is the one crying away the tears, listening to his pain: of not being able to be with the one he is in love with.

after talking for hours
like friends? like a therapist and the patient? like 2 stangers in a weird encounter?
she is exhausted. her eyelids drop in spite of the south park episodes that she would love to watch otherwise.
they sleep from 12 noon to 4 pm.
she can hear him sleep heavily together with his sadness. he is fast asleep; his pain trapped in his heart& mind; his pain fluttering.
she perceives his sadness; she perceives his love for this lady he talks about.
she hears that he is ready to basicly change anything in his life for this lady he talks about.
he is already now closing the refrigirator door after taking out a sandwich - just because she had warned her before not to leave the fridge door open for long... those are easy nuisances he is saying. he can do anything to win her heart.


she wakes up, feeling as if there is a sun behind the white of the curtain.
he wakes up; in pain; in agony; bothered; probably in love.
she perceives a heart that is fluttering. he is a trapped bird.
she understands perfectly how he is craving to convince this girl that it is a huge mistake not to see each other anymore...
she understands perfectly the ambivalance; the disaster of ambivalance, the tragedy of not knowing the reasons.

she watches him. she hears him. she feels him. helpless. he has such a clear idea for the 2 of them. for him, it is an "us" situtaion that should not be missed. she feels that this girl is in a single-in fear-in doubt state. yet in the girl's letter, she sounds so clear. so clear she almost envies her for being so clear in a letter.

she wonders how one is eager to end a relation whereas the other one is so eager to just continue.
something missing in the equation...
she thinks.
a million thoughts.
millions of associations.
she tries to stick to the moment.
to his facts.
she holds his head. his head is trapped in a certain kind of hopelessness.
how to heal.

she cannot comprehend the gap between this man's passion and this woman's decisiveness not to continue.
he is so nice she wants to cry. or he is so obsessed that she wants to run?
she takes a hot shower, singing tanita tikaram: the very very very sad truth is i never think sensibly...

she adores a being's capacity to love. with no reason.
she is an alien. but maybe he is also an alien after all.
she almost believes this. almost.
she adores the metaphor: he is left standing in the bus stop. and the bus is not coming...

is it about me? or is it about her? he asks... he believes that it is about her.
because he believes himself to be a cool guy; a perfect guy even.
she would never be bored if she was with him; that's what he says.
how he longs for this girl.
she watches him longing for this girl who is a phone call away.

she drinks a cup of linden tea; looking through books.
she already has anothe rappointment in the 3rd district.
he gets her a glass container - a jar.
she puts some linden in the glass containe.r
she puts the glass container in her bag.
she wishes him good luck.
and she leaves.
he turns on the light so that she does not fall down the stairs.
ah, she does not need eyes to see.

shut your eyes, and see.

"the very music i have heard inside your heart"