Day 31 – My first day in Berlin and I’m mesmerized by Clare and Jakob’s apartment, which has been transformed into some kind of beautiful sculpture garden filled with Clare’s 3D collages and floating flower-topias.
I couldn’t be luckier to have such a soft landing in a foreign country. It’s been almost 2 years since I last saw her. When she and Jakob moved here, I dreamed of coming to visit. After my divorce, I thought maybe I’ll move here. I longed to rewrite my life with type of deliberateness that comes from choosing and making what you want to create. We may feel like we’re spit out from a void must live out our lives where we land, but there is also always the potential for something else.
Clare’s art opening is October 8th and is titled, Intimate Immensity. The structures she’s created reminds me of something I mentioned before, the practice of holding a magnifying glass up to the myriad of the minute that compose our landscape and seeing the immensity there.
If you’re in Berlin in early October, come by the opening and say hello!
30 Days to Berlin 