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i have decided on my topic for my dissertation that i have to write next year (starting research in the summer!). i will write about the role art plays in a revolution. i want to look at the russian revolution and at the revolution that is happening now in venezuela. i have found a lot of interesting literature about the russian revolution and art already. there is really fantastic revolutionary ceramic work with slogans and symbols etc. propaganda, of course. and there are the posters etc. in venezuela there are a lot of murals, which are beautiful and i have also found several interview with artists about their work and the revolution and how they relate to it. it is going to be very interesting to work on, i think...i just hope that the tutors are going to accept my proposal.
they say that if there is no tutor that can help with the research i have chosen, i have to find something else. so, keep your fingers crossed for me, that it will be alright.
:-)

posted by hanna @ 2:22 PM 0 comments

here finally are some more photos from venezuela. still not all of them, but i am getting there!











maybe soon i will post more. did you see the graffiti? the people will not retreat! ha!
and there are lovely murals about the revolution and the "heroes" everywhere. i did take more pictures of those, but they are still on the other computer.

thanks for your patience! :-)

hanna

posted by hanna @ 12:44 PM 0 comments

at the moment i am working a lot in the ceramic workshop. lovely! all plasterdust and squidgy clay and plaster etc! but seriously, there are a lot of very beautiful things you can do with clay!
i am slipcasting pots and i will be experimenting with coloured slip decoration and printing on them.
here are some pictures of quite simply pots i made last year to learn this new technique:








there is of course much more, but i have not got time to upload more for now. what do you think, quite nice, isn't it?

posted by hanna @ 3:05 PM 2 comments

i went to play softball again for the first time in about 3 years on sunday. it was so much fun! i missed playing very much....it is so amazing how you can exercise really hard for three hours and you don't even really notice until afterwards, when your muscles ache!!!
i think i went a bit over the top - i cycled to hyde park (40 mins) and then played softball and then cycled all the way back. today, monday, i can hardly move! hahaha...but it feels great to know that i am getting a bit of exercise again.

maybe i should explain that a little bit:
i used to play softball in austria - for about 5 years. our team was quite good, went to three european cups etc. i really loved playing and i was a bit disappointed when i found that here in england people play slowpitch softball and not fastpitch softball. i still played for about two years here, going ot tournaments etc. it was still good fun.
then of course, my life changed quite a lot about 3 years ago and i didn't play anymore at all...my poor glove was stuffed in a bag inthe back of the cupboard.
so sunday morning i got my glove out, got the glove oil and put a nice layer on. still nice and soft, needs a bit of tightening the strings i noticed using it.

:-) it's great to have some kind of exercise that you really love.

posted by hanna @ 11:54 AM 1 comments

well, so today i am going to try to post some photos from venezuela. these are just some landscape pictures....the others i have not got on my computer yet.














how beautiful is this? you will notice the ones that are taken from the airplane!

:-)
hanna

posted by hanna @ 11:39 AM 0 comments