Today was an intense day!
My friend left in the early morning, as her grandmother might be in her last days on earth.
Opening the treasure chest, I picked Elin.
Before starting to paint, I sat down and checked the internet and saw what happened with the LGBT Pride in Istanbul. BANG – it hit me hard, sitting in front of my laptop, still with Elin’s inspiration inmy hands, I felt a huge sadness and then anger! I wrote to one of my best friends in Turkey, she is lesbian, about how I am affected by what I had seen, and she wrote, “you cannot change this now – the only thing you can do, is paint – I will be waiting!” – but I couldn‘t, I sat there and I just couldn’t. So I laid down, set my alarm clock, as life served me well again, as I had a lunch date with one of my gay friends here in Munich. All these coincidences today!
We had really quality time together and after I came back in the late afternoon, I felt my energy’s back. Inspired by the painting workshop last weekend, I decided to focus on Elin’s face and started to sketch differently and use the technique we practiced there.
And here you are:
I did it, I painted!
Thank you, Elin and thanks to everyone who was with me today!
<3 Susanne