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by Karolina Rupp Photography

Finding space in you life for the things that actually matter, matters. Keeping them cold does not keep them fresh.

Knosing

The need to be creative is a wonderful one, but if you feel uninspired it is terrible. Sinful in fact if that is what you strive for. You start questioning things around you. An experiment one can do which fascinates me is the following: Close your one eye and look at your nose. It is in your sight from the top till the bottom but you can't see it in its full form or shape. Does that mean that your nose is only half a nose? Yes sure look at it with both your eye, squint, and you will realise that it is blurred and exists even less as a shape as it is not as defined. The point I'm trying to make is that your face grows out of your head, out of your mind, so if you interact with someone face to face does that mean there is only one face in the conversation or two? You are only able to see the one you are looking at, not your own. Also, within that interaction, don't you feel you are in the space between you and the person? You are throwing words at the other persons face which only start existing within the space between you and her/ him and then the other person takes them in.. or not. Your mind seems to thus not exist in your head but in the space just in front of you, hovering there, ready to interact and explore. Tough it carries a wall either to the left or the right (depending which eye you close) of your vision. Therefore we know that our nose can be observed from either side and that it is big, forming a little arrow pointing us in a direction. Let's call it the nosal compass of our mind. As someone pointed out, people are counted or seen as noses, for example 'there are ten noses in the room' or as one would say in the German language 'zwei Euro pro Nase' which translates to 'two Euro per nose(person)'. Does this mean that the reason we count or see noses is the fact that it is the closest thing to our mind (physically) that we ourselves can observe and thus we being there becomes real? 

Being led by our noses, exploring the world around us being aware of the nose in the corner of our eye creates a very different experience of our reality as it makes us perceive it out of a third party perspective. How wonderful! This allows us to observe the observed behind the shield of our physical being which is protecting our mind, for now. 

The conclusion here, what does facing yourself mean?!

Light

Today I woke up early... at 6:30 am... even that my alarm was set to 7:00 am... but I decided today that for the first time possibly this year to not try and get that half hour into my nap time but to actually wake up. (What I consider early might be late for other... that is not the point here).

Through blinds one could see sun rays of this warm light (or cold light, depending if you're and artist or scientist) that just reminded me of endless possibility... of little space ships beaming themselves through to us, of highways of dust made visible, of patterns that make up secret messages only waiting to be decoded by someone... of hope (I was very reluctant here to write this last little word as I find that it is being overused in the wrong places...and thus became/ becomes a cliche... but whether it's fortunately or unfortunately, I find it appropriate).

I always enjoyed shooting early mornings, especially fashion. I think this week I will try that again.

Yes! Its a Monday morning and I am motivated and inspired. And to just round this off with another small cliche... I did find that the reason for my good mood is because I experienced the possibility to still surprise myself.

Yes! *

*Including this made me laugh, it has no other purpose.