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Jul 21, 20231 min read

Continuing

I decided to continue both with the Gift Heart project and with writing on this Blog. I am now thinking about placing one of these hearts...

May 28, 20231 min read

X. District

This place was important for me to visit because my father had been laying in this hospital for some time. I am hoping the figure will...

May 4, 20231 min read

Underground

I went a few days ago underground and placed a few figures where I could. I believe it has a different meaning placed here. It might get...

Apr 26, 20231 min read

Experimenting

I tried a different color grout one week ago. I aimed to make a natural clay color grout. I prefer the warm colors better compared to the...

Apr 26, 20231 min read

On the Streets

I went to a different part of the city and placed some mosaic figures on the stone railings. The colors of the city are so different...

Apr 9, 20232 min read

Repetitious hours

I have now made myself a routine of making these objects over and over again. I am lucky because each time I can change something small...

Mar 26, 20231 min read

Experimenting

Yesterday I have experimented with coloring the grout to color green when I put the material as a finish on the mosaic figures. I prefer...

Mar 7, 20231 min read

In the making

While I am continuing to make these small mosaic figures I am contemplating on coloring the grout maybe to different colors and seeing...

Jan 8, 20231 min read

Letter from a receiver of the "Gift"

The letter said: "Hi! Apparently, I am someone's special person! I feel blessed and lucky and I wish everyone this type of happiness at...

Dec 4, 20221 min read

Letter from a receiver of the "Gift"

I have received an email from somebody that has collected the heart figure I left on the street as part of my "Gift giving" experiment....

Nov 27, 20222 min read

Outside 3.

When I was painting in the studio or organizing an exhibition or talking with people in the studio it was a very different setting. I was...

Nov 27, 20221 min read

Outside 2.

There was an interesting finding during this research project experiment. This heart figure, after leaving it on the brick wall was...

Nov 27, 20222 min read

Outside 1.

This heart mosaic figure was sitting on a bench on a street where people usually take their dogs for a walk. On the back of the figures,...

Nov 27, 20221 min read

The process of making "The Gift" IV.

The last part of the process took much more time than I expected. The reason behind this was that my heart figures made out of clay were...

Nov 27, 20221 min read

Process of making "The Gift" III.

I cut the glass pieces cut into smaller shapes with the help of two equipments. One was used to draw a line where I want to make the cut...

Nov 23, 20221 min read

Process of making "The Gift" II.

After the clay has dried, I took the glass leftovers which I collected earlier and then started to cut the colors selected to make...

Nov 20, 20221 min read

Smaller pieces

I have collected pieces of colored glass waste, and now I am working on breaking the glass even to smaller pieces so they can fit on the...

Nov 6, 20221 min read

Process of making "The Gift" I.

Red pieces of glass were collected and broken into smaller pieces. When forming many clay heart shapes for the project experiment, I was...

Oct 18, 20221 min read

Tutorial Note

Today (October 18, 2022) I had a conversation with Janet regarding my research paper. There are many things to rewrite and investigate...

Sep 17, 20221 min read

Ceramic parts on the table

I was thinking about the different pieces to use for the clay heart figures I have formed. I would like to recycle these old broken...

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