My elephants

My ideas around:
IST GROSSE LIEBE SO GROSS WIE EIN ELEPHANT?
(Is big love as big as an elephant?)
Getting a theme form another person is never neutral. Another one saying what to do is different from your own stream of thought. Tilman has a big history with elephants, he is very inventive with these poor animals, mainly in small clay figures, maybe he wil show some of these clay elephants?.
The first drawing is getting into the mood.

This theme from Tilman was no difference. At first I saked myself, what am i gonna do with this elephant? But the elephant turned out to be a nice shape. An elephant is very recognizable, even if you draw fingers instead of legs. A lot can be done with an elephant.
The second drawing tries to slice the elephant...


In relation with the "love letter" theme the elephant becames a victim of love. It is shot at with arrows, a reference to Cupido. Also an arm and a head were intermingled with the elephants members, this half man half elephant was not too bad either.



So, if the theme was a question, did my drawings answered anything?
If it was sarcasm, about the existance of love :-) how did my drawings respond?
The elephant as an animal, and as a shape is something strange, very much transformable.
Never thought about the elephant in that way.
As all animals, it probably occupies a unique space in our lower brains, but how this elephant came there, me being from the north, never seen an elephant, real, in its own environment...who knows? Does this indicate visual structures dating from thousands of years ago, still surviving in my brain???

Tilman's choice for a present was the last picture. I was pleased with this. I always wonder why people pick out particular drawings or paintings. Most of the time it is because it refers to memories or accidental associations. In this case it could be the style of the drawing, which can be a bit in the direction of the Tilman drawings.

The second way

La deuxième manière de lire une lettre d'amour...
The second way to read a love letter, this title suggest that there are more ways?
Indeed there are, but these are for later.

Why the second way and not start with the first? Strange enough, the second way produced the third, the fourth and the fifth, but the first way was found after al these stages.
The full five stages of reading a love letter will be shown later. This should be an exhange and the second way was the theme.

The second way of reading is full of uncertainty, even fear. You receive a letter, what can be inside? A text is a full of ideas, suggestions, images, most of the times the content seems to be clear. We read a meaning "into" it. But this magic process might be wrong!
A love letter can be a declaration of war, hidden between the sentences. This is all text, but text is easy.

Now the images. At the moment these are sketches. Not too big. The sketches are worked out, as are the other stages of reading a love letter. These images will be shown later on.