A sun bear and a kingfisher – Letter from the studio, April 2025

Art in April: Lady of the river

(above) Third in a series of fantastical animal ladies in kimono that I make for the 18th birthday of my nieces. The next and last one in 4 years 😁. For the first two check out my portfolio page, category “Personal Work”.

Maybe I should offer them as prints? ;)

Some pictures of the creation process, including the searching-for-ideas sketches :) (it could have become a hare lady ;))

From my camera roll: Sunlit hydrangeas

The morning sun is bathing the dried hydrangeas in the back of our garden in a dramatic lighting :)

Have to tell you about: dynomight

I struggled a bit to find something to talk about as I am fairly unenthuastic these days 😏. Then I remembered obsessing about this site (found while researching seed oils 🙃) for, like, 2 1/2 weeks (probably not healthy 😬).
I don’t necessarily agree with the author’s views, but I like their deadpan humour, in some cases uncommon topics, and I admire their addictive (at least for me 😅) writing style.

I especially recommend the article Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening. The title alone is worth a recommendation, right 😂? Also the article called me out (unexpectedly) and made me rethink my unreflected opinion that distracting yourself from existential thoughts / worries – rather than “facing them” – by consuming “content” (don’t like the term but how to better describe it?) is kind of unhealthy.
Here’s the quote I noted in my link-log: “Feeling like you understand the meaning of life is downstream of existential peace, not upstream.” 🧐 Not necessarily something you’d expect in an article about listening to audiobooks at accelerated speed, is it? ;)

That’s it for this month!

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