sunday song of the day #43

if there had to be one abba song, this would be up there

walking on a dream

quite possibly the most dreamy night of them all. Dinner and lots of champagne in the private dining room at Claridge's then led to dancing the night away in DSTRKT.

Happy happy birthday Juliette!

sunday song of the day #42

Song of the night, spent at Claridge's and DSTRKT for my love Juliette's birthday

... pics to follow

#quiche

WI-CH

A Growth Which Was Seeded in a Gesture

(after a portrait of Marina Abramović)

105 x 105 cm

oil on linen

2014

Artwork by

Winston Chmielinski

I'm actually a big fan of Chmielinski's work, and this one especially.

Marina Abramovic is a great Serbian artist, based in New York who focuses on performance art, specifically on the limits of the body and the powers of the mind. She's performed at the MoMA numerous amount of times, but one stands out to me: at her 2010 MoMA retrospective, Marina performed 'The Artist is Present' as part of the show, where she shared a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her.

The story goes that Marina and Ulay had started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt that their relationship had run its course, they decided to walk to the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting in the middle for one last hug, then never seeing each other again.

Years had gone by but Ulay decided to show up at the MoMA that day and sit with her for a minute, in silence. The footage of their encounter is incredible, and would recommended youtube-ing it.

 However, Chmielinksi's work is usually very vibrant and bold. Yet this piece - whilst still quite colourful, typical to Chmielinksi's style - is more subdued, playing on the details. I love it.

My dream house would consist of having one of Chmielinksi's works on a big white wall.

illesteva leonard's

from net-a-porter today

i can't decide

... to keep or not to keep?

p.s. play any song to watch my head bob to it, it works
p.p.s. the hideous floral wall is soon to be gone...

sunday song of the day #41

To change

“People say to you, ‘you’ve changed’, or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God that you have changed, because I don’t want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don’t change. Dead things don’t change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.” 

- 

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

RIP René Ricard

sunday song of the day #40

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