the utopia of walter gropius

Physical and emotional needs of the society need to merge with order of space. Good architect is the one to grasp the sociological factor, while creating practically impeccable and aesthetically innovative projects. That’s what Walter Gropius used to think so he founded Bauhaus.

The German architect surpassed his contemporaries with utopian visions of perfect community emerging from the architectonical grounds. A complex theory of Gropius embraced the educational aspect focused on practical experience that bridged with the understanding of biological processes and the industrial era was supposed to result in finest architectonical solutions. He wrote a series of essays on his predictions of the visual future of cities. Idealistic to the bone, that you seem to end up reading a well-written tale on the block of flats.

Walter Gropius is part of architect pantheon  next to Le Corbusier and Gerrit Rietveld. The concept of Bauhaus is not an archaic one. It just seems a misfit for any period in history.  

baby love girl

Let my baby stay. Baby’s wearing blue jeans. She’s really all I need. Baby. Love in stereo. She’s the one. Game of love. Another girl another planet. Crazy love.  Everybody want to fall in love. Wait for my love. Love makes it all worthwhile. Only love can break your heart. Baby let me take you home. Best of my love. Bye bye baby. Dedicated to the one I love. Girls and boys. Love rollercoaster. Girl from the northern country. Love is a rose. Jessie’s girl. Kill for love. Come back baby. Ordinary girls. Le temps de l’amour. You always hurt the one you love. I still love you. Somebody’s baby. Canadian girl. Lotta love. With a girl like you. I was made to love her. Girl. Sweet lovin’ baby. Nothin’ in the world can stop me worrying about that girl.

I figured out that all songs I constantly feel like playing on repeat always include word ‘girl’, ‘love’ and ‘baby’.

What does it say about me?

thinking of flowers

Flower is the simple form on nature. It can be treated as something untouchable, a part of the earth, its cold, brown ground. But we make it into an object, an embellishment, imposing it with beauty emphasized by a crystal vase, so as soon it wilts, we throw it away, as it reminds us that beauty is a transient.

Flowers have been painted all over the years. If part of landscapes, they contributed to the radiance of the view. If sketched as a central element of the work of art, they defined the ultimate beauty canon of the age. Then, they were applied onto fabrics and textiles. So when they folded as a cover of our duvet or a pattern on our beloved dress, we could feel our attractiveness glowing out.

The flower is a synonym of something desirable that we want to observe from a distance and possess at the same time. Our attitude to flower reflects our attitude towards love and life.

top ten songs to freak out to when you are alone

Not too much of a discovery to say we all get these moments when we are alone and we want to dance and these somehow epic songs happen to pop up on our playlist. Here is a 100% subjective playlist of my ‘get crazy’ tracks of all times.

is tropical - dancing anymore

the emotions - the best of my love

sky ferreira - i blame myself 

black lips - bad kids

rick springfield - jessie's girl

glass candy - warm in the winter

new order - age of consent

GGOOLLDD - gold

journey - don't stop believing

the boys town gang - can't take my eyes off you

balthus

A genius of post-war European art. A friend of Alberto Giacometti. A man who embraced eroticism and love in equal measure. Balthus.

He spent his life on creation, travel, but readings about the artist draft an image of his best days. These were the times he spent with Setsuko, an embodiment of a woman, wife, muse and frame of Balthus's works. Sharing their worlds of intimacy and inspiration in Villa Medici and in a Swiss chalet, they created art emerging from mutual respect and curiosity. She, exploring the culture of the old continent, he, learning about the Orient, painting Shunga-infused acts. 

In the last 17 years of his life, Balthus painted only 13 works, probably none of them masterpieces, that's what the critics would say.

But I do not need a proof in a form of papers and letters to believe Balthus was a man who harnessed art. He has achieved it and built a home of his own that he cherished and loved. He described it with strokes in  'The Mountain'. A home where he and Setsuko kept a room locked, filled with exotic birds.

antwerp

Dear Antwerp,

you are a masterpiece. Created by Rubens and van Eyck and Bruegel and Adriaenssen, your streets are silent and dark.

I want to cross under the river Schedlt and think about your past. I see you from a distance and I see you close, the beauty of yours is all the same, no matter the perspective. You are home to fashion one of a kind, you let the creative minds of Dries van Noten and Ann Demeulemeester thrive and grow. Now it's time for you to get something in return.

People respect your tranqulity, they do not rush, they ride their bikes and take the trams and move slowly with clear minds. I was one of them for a while and back in London it is not the same.

I want to come back to be part of the way you embrace the history and novelty. There is something dated and fresh about you at the same time. This contradiction makes me understand why did I feel with you beside like never before. Cheesy, but true, you are exceptional.

See you soon and never change,

x

amateur discourse #2

I often wonder what disillusionment is. It is not that I never experience it. It is just I don’t accept it anymore. 

There are things in my life I wonder why they have occurred. Yet I get no answer. And I do know I will never find out why that particular thing happened and I stop questioning why, and wonder what for. This is constructive and does not allow my hopes and dreams crush like glass. This change of perspective is hard to obtain and even harder to maintain, but once possessed it makes life deep and meaningful and gears up individual’s aspirations to an unprecedented extent.

It is not self-deceit, it is self-motivation. When things move off track there is very rarely a chance to comprehend them, but what we can do and what can be constructive is to find no accident in them, yet in all their quirkiness and nonsense interpret them as most precious symbols pushing us forward.

I don’t want disillusionment anymore. I want to be wise. I want to feel my life is following its own path I cannot predict in anyway.