I have just could two minutes before midnight upload my favorite pictuer for the theme Lokal. It is of course a joke, but nevertheless I think also it is quite serious...


3.11. 2008: I dont want to be lazy, of course I have done (well done!) a series of little sketches to work out some Ideas on the theme "local". The idea above is to make sure, that anything local must be concentrated to a point. A Cocon, something which is extremely "inside".


I remember, as a child, my phantasies were very wide, but that only worked in a very enclosed place: a stool turned arround, giving the feeling of being inside, was phantastic to make voyages all over the world.




Or the garden gnome, which is a very good symbol for the hope of the garden gnome friends to show everybody, how inside they are...
So here he is the garden gnome,


and of course he doesn't realise, that there is a outer world.



What else can I say? Günther Grass has a chapter in his roman "Die Blechtrommel" which has the title "Unterm Rock". Underneath the dresses of his grandmother he is safe. When one grows older there is an other aspekt of this Idea - more erotic of course.

The intimacy of beeing together is a very local thing. Inside your shoe is very lokal, putting your hand in trhe pocket as well.
Local has to do much with emotion, with depth symbolic, with safety, and with the feeling of getting lost (in the global)....


Good night - see you on thursday