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Ishmael

I've just finished reading the novel Ishmael by the writer Daniel Quinn. It has become maybe the most important book I've read, as I think it has to many other readers. I won't reveal much of what it's about but what it reads on the cover.

I feel like Daniel Quinn with this book, manages to put words to feelings and thoughts I've had all my life, but wasn't able to articulate myself or to really fully understand.

Reading it has put to mind millions of thoughts, and I am thinking too about how I can translate the perspective on life into other medias, my medias; fashion and art.

Read more about Ishmael and Daniel Quinn here.

Dreaming of a workshop

And a real one where you can do all sorts of stuff without limits and working with any material imaginable. Clay, metal, papier maché, mosaic, felt and alternative materials. I'd be in heaven!

(The artists are unknown, but students from Pædagoguddannelsen Sydhavn)

Interprofessional project

Currently at school we're having a three week project. Not an interdisciplinary but an interprofessional project.

My school is under an umbrella of educations called University College Campus (yeah it sounds a bit silly). UCC contains some different educations besides mine; Nurses, occupational therapists, sign language interpreters, teachers and pedagogs (I know it's not called that anywhere else but in Scandinavia, because they split it up in (preschool) teachers, social workers fx. but I'm happy to live in a some what socialistic country where this is a pedagog and it's about bringing up happy and reflective independent human beings and not about peformance perfomane performance. We also have equal paternity/maternity leave, it's outrageus ;-) )
And then there's my education. If you have read my blog, you might have a clue about what I study, -for you who hasn't, read on, I'll will enlighten you on that subject later in this post.

UCC decided that the different educations that are situated all over Copenhagen, should try and mingle and find out how we can co-operate/collaborate with eachother, so they arranged some different interprofessional projects that us students could choose from. I chose one called Creative and Innovative Processes. It happens that only teachers, pedagogs and students from my school have chosen this. I guess it doesn't have a huge appeal to fx nurses..

As an introduction we were to first make a illustrative personal profile on ourselves by only using packing, wrapping, containers etc.  Here are some of them.

The day after we made them, we were to present ourselves using these profiles in little groups of three to five. A really interesting way to answer the question who are you, and start and lead the conversation in a completely different way than it otherwise would have been.

My selfportrait

Since I of course have a huge brain the paper brain had to be huge too, right?! :-)
It might be a bit hard to read it, and of course it is also written in Danish, so for some impossible to understand even if readable.
I guess the brain is red to express passion. Of course not because I didn't want my brain to be grey boring cardboard. Words written are fx Litterature, estethiques, to create, vegetarian, climbing, yoga, music, expression, identity, secondhand, sustainability, the people I love, travelling, empathy and compassion, organic, love, cities, nature, and uncertainty about what the future will hold...


After having done that, we got the same assignment but as groups and a full size profile to define our profession, what our eductaion teaches us.
They look like this. (Guess which is which)

It's interesting to look at how the three different professions are expressed. I am freely analysing the shapes of them;

1st is two profiles on the pedagog - round shapes, many arms to express the many qualifications and competences they have to contain the different people they meet in their job.
2nd is the teacher - a square representing the education they are in charge of gicing the kids to prepare them for the real world and give them the tools to think and relfect for themselves.
3rd is my education. A Bachelor in textile handicraft and education/comunication. Very feminine decorated with a necklace possibly homemade embroidered and in a dress which could also be homemade..


Well, about that Bachelor in textile handicraft and education/comunication.
The classes we have are seperated in three top categories; Clothing, culture and communication.

Clothing: 
The making of clothes (Pattern construction, sewing toiles, fitting, and sewing an actual product)
Embroidery
Textile printing

Cutlure:
History of clothing, analysing clothing, ethnically traditions in clothing, design, fashion illustration, flats and colour theory.

Communication:
Educational communication (teaching adults, didactics, pedagogical theories)
Other cultural communication (theater, museum/galleries, journalistics, theory of science)

And the long list of jobs a Bachelor in textilehanducraft and educations/communication might work in:

• At museums or galleries
• Teacher (In different situations fx. kids, teenagers, adults in school or offering courses)
• Entrepeneur (own fashion label or other projects)
• Costumier
• Editor or journalist at fashion or craft magazines
• Writer
• Researcher (fashion and style, materials)
• Designer, product assistent, sales assistent (and more depending on the last long specialising internship)
• Pattern constructor
• Tailor
• Textile print designer/printer
• Embroiderer
• Illustrator
• Artist
• Creative coatch
• Project manager
• Social economic projects fx with NGOs
• Lecturer

Dishevelled?

Or trying to find the right shelf. 

But does it have to be a shelf? Does it have to be a box? 

Should it be outside the box? 

And who ever decided that it is shelfs and boxes?

I think I'm gonna put myself  in the sky where there are no shelfs or boxes or anything else that puts you in one or the other place. 

I'm gonna put myself in the sky where I can fly free and just be.

I just don't really feel like conforming to the life society wants us to live...

So... About Thailand

Thailand was as great as it could be. We had the best experience we could wish for.
We have explored our own minds as well as another culture, and fed the urge to travel more.

While this is not a travel blog, I don't feel it's the scene to elaborate our experience it is a part of my life now, so it felt right to post a few pictures from the trip.


I have been quite absent from this blog the past half year (and already written about this absense too much). I don't quite know what the future will bring, but I am now again in a position with possibilities to create, which I strongly plan on doing.
I am also at a point where all the thoughts I've previously talked about are more clear and organised in my mind, and I will share them with you soon.

These next days though, my focus will be moving to Vesterbro, my new home - wonderful is the word for that.

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Embraced by the jungle

A shot of the pants I designed and made just before christmas and our journey to Thailand. My version of harem pants, with safari print.

The shoes are a cheap treasure found in the local vintage shop in Skælskør yesterday and the top is Camilla Norrback from this Fall/Winter 10.

Oh, and my new tattoo is finally revealed on the internet with this picture.

In Thailand we spent 4 weeks, - Christmas and New Years in the North and the South, in Bangkok and in the jungles, on beaches climbing and in the water swimming. With the trip in mind, I felt like I needed some suitable pants, so these rose from my imagination.

I had barely ended my internship at Camilla Norrback, and I was inspired to over the top and felt much more like sewing than writing the report about my experience at Camilla Norrback.

Walking the distance

Reminiscence
San Diego, Summer 2010, Operation Awesome Summer/road trip.

http://www.operationawesomesummer.blogspot.com/

No Budget Performance

Last Friday, the 3rd of December my friend Han (a Belgium girl,who is also doing an intership at Camilla Norrback) I was at this art exhibit in Stockholm, Södermalm. Students from Kungliga Konsthögskola presented their sculptures, paintings or performances, making us reflect on human behavior and the relations between people. 

In the beginning I only took a short look at the girl making ice-cookies, who was standing right by the cold entrance. It didn't really speak to me - or so I thought. When we came back later and stood looking at her for a little while, seeing how cold she was, and despite that fact how persistently and stubbornly she went on doing her self-torturing performance, it became the most important piece to me. 

I interpret it as a sort of illustration of how we love. 

She is standing there in her little kitchen with all the housewife cliches making little cookies out of snow. She marks each and every one with a little red spot representing a heart. Then she puts them on the ground where they melt away - disappear. 

The eternal falling in love, the love dies away, you get hurt - melt, but next time it's the same over and over again. You keep going for love, even when it seems as there will be no happy ending, and you get colder and colder.. 

As hard it is to put words to art I tried to express what I felt when experiencing this one. I am not sure if this was what she wanted, since we didn't find a brief description on the different pieces. Maybe she wanted the viewer to find out for themselves. 

I'll probably never know, but it's not that important anyway, because this one really touched me, and I think that is what art aims to do.

See time pass

Kaviar Gauche dress

A picture taken a while ago, actually just when I recieved my camera. A new camera that is, when after too long Best Buy decided to give me a new one instead of getting the old one fixed. But well now I have it back.

In the folds of fabric

Draped collar. It was a present for a friend of mine who recently had a birthday.

The nothingness of the moment / Status Quo

As everyone who occasionally likes to read this blog knows, nothing is really going on at the moment. I'd say more than just a moment, but for a while now.
I could apologize, but am not going to. Explain though, that's something I will do.

This vacuum in action and the publishing of posts are due to a couple of reasons.
First of all, like most might have read, I have no camera. Hopefully, a new one will be sent soon and arrive in my vacant, sad hands, ready to do a lot of shooting.
Furthermore, my computer is out of space and not very willing to communicate with my newly purchased hard drive. And I need help to that sort of stuff, and my helping hand is very busy with studies. (Don't die on me now beloved computer).
I am also deep in a lot of different and sometimes confusing and certainly very preoccupying thinking about life choices in generel. Thoughts that are not yet ready to enter paper or for that matter puplic net until they have gone through a lot more ... shaping,  I think I'll call it. This is not sad thoughts at all, it is a very welcome development that follows new life experiences, new friendships and having an open and independent mind (if I may say so myself). I am in a process of gaining knowledge about myself, my values and the world.
And then the last reason, though I have a lot of ideas for posts, I would myself find them, well, not as capturing without pictures as they would with pictures. And I am also not one who can post and post and post about smaller things. I need to take my time and I need to feel that what I am posting can give something to someone out there. (Hope I actually accomplish this, when I do make a post).

I have learned from other bloggers, that to establish and maintain readers interest, you have to post often, if possible, once a day. I can now note, after having blogged for about a year, very randomly, that I am not gonna be that type of blogger. I blog when I have something to share, and when I have the time, energy and desire to do so. In periods this happens often, in periods (like this current one) I'm very absent.
So whoever enjoys reading my blog, is probably a person who values quality over quantity, and that's how I want it to be.

Having said all this, I can't wait to get my camera again, and start sharing beautiful Stockholm and my life here with you.

Maybe I'll be catching some good flees..

After a busy week I'm about to leave my kille in our little apartment in Kista, to go to Uppsala on a flee spree with a couple of girls, who also intern at Camilla Norrback. I wish I could take pictures with my camera, but all I have is the one on my little Sony Ericsson phone, so that will do.

Besides I should give an update on a couple of things I bought so far, being in lovely Stockholm. A Camilla Norrback skirt from the spring/summer 10 collection and a pair of Scorett shoes. And who knows if I'll find something cool today at the Uppsala flee market or in the thrift shops.
Another thing I should also share is some pics of our apartment; our tiny pre-furnished apartment that we made into our cosy warm home.

After two weeks in Stockholm with busy days and completely unpredictable weather I love it! We still have so much exploring to do, wich will not in the future include the English Pub situated below our apartment in the mall, Kista Galleria which we visited yesterday, since the liqueur store close at 7pm (3pm on Saturday..). Tomorrow our plan is to go sailing on the boats that take you around Stockholm, the city that is also called Scandinavia's Venice. The sun should be out and it should be wonderful.  

The big picture

Here comes something to look at while I am kinda gone, hiding, in the dark og something like that..
The big picture - Russia in color, a century ago.
This is an article about colour photo before man was able to take colour photo, and this is why these pictures can give you an insight nothing else can.

Looking at the colours, the light, the clarity of the photographs it's hard to believe that they are not taken with an excellent DSLR-camera in our time, but with a specialised camera using red, green and blue filters between 1909 and 1912.


Give yourself a treat and check out old Russia with velvet and water, beautiful intense portraits and mezmerising landscapes.

A little treat while I'm pretty absent, not having my beloved camera to capture my days at camilla norrback. You don't have to be all in the dark though. At Marit's blog, my fellow intern, you can read some of what 's going on.

So.. What's next? What's on you mind, what's in your head?

I am back from the road trip (the unfinished road trip blog). Hey, I'm even back from the US, back in Denmark. At least 'till Saturday, when I'll be leaving here again to go to Stockholm.
In Stockholm where I'll be doing an internship at the Swedish label Camilla Norrback - check it out here. I simply cannot wait to start!

But I am back without my camera. The zoom broke, and screwed from a rip off waranty, they didn't wanna give me a new one, so I am currently waiting for it to be repared and shipped to the store, picked up from the store and shipped to Sweden. Could't take a while.
So all I have now is the pencil in my hand. And until Saturday I have my parents scanner next to me. That will just have to do for now I guess.