Halloween

Last week I went to see an expo about Panamarenko. He is a Belgian artist living in Antwerp and has an obsession with mechanisms made for flying and his art is all about instalations that look like they can fly, but in reality can't. I find a poetic tone in his art. Looking up at the birds and the bees, it has always been humanities dream to fly, and although we will likely never can truly like a bird. we have to believe we can, and to not give up on our dreams and keep trying to achieve the closest we can get. As in acception that you can't always get there perfectly lies also a great sense of liberation, I think. Looking at his works you can see there is a sense of joy in creating them. When the pursuit of our dreams is not joyfull, is it then truly the goal you should aim for? In videos showing interviews with him on the wall he sometimes bursted out in laughing about his own works (the noise they made and etc.) and that's something I find refreshing as many expo's and artists take themselves very serious.

Pics taken with a cellphone, not the best quality. There is of course many more things to see, but I am not going to show the whole expo

                      

These "birds" actually walked around and almost tumbled over when hitting the sides of the platform but somehow always found their balance, it was really funny to see

Halloween is near! I actually like that this event has gained popularity in most European countries the last years, sure it's commercial, but who doensn't like a good scare sometimes? This is also why I enjoy nightmares. Not while experiencing one, but when you're awake and the memory of the scary scenes is still fresh in the mind, it can be a exciting feeling, no? I once woke up from a hellish nightmare and after waking it felt so real I was afraid to even move for a minute, it was a little too intense for my liking. It resolved around me being tagged on facebook all the time to do dumb challenges and taking selfies from it. It was horrible.........

My drawing is also a bit Halloween themed:

Two weeks ago 5 teens went camping in the forest across the river next to our town. It's an ideal spot since only few people live there in cabins. The nights are so dark there you can see all the stars in the sky. One night a family living in such a cabin heard disturbing screams of pure terror not too far off in the distance. The husband went looking with a flashlight and a gun to come aid whoever persons where in such agony to make those frightning noises. When he came closer to the place he first thought he heard branches breaking but it was a more muffled sound, more like bones snapping. It chilled him to the bone and began to doubt if he should go there. Overcoming his fear he arrived at the scene and what he saw there petrified his whole body. A tent dripping in blood and five twisted bodies spread in front of it. Every limp seemed twisted and broken and all heads were missing. 

The next day a special investigation team set up camp near the spot and searched every inch of the area hoping to figure out wat happend there. Days passed and nothing was found or seen to give explanation to it all. At the last night before heading back to town, the team was woken by something rushing between the trees at unnatural speed. One person quickly turned on a giant spotlight to see what was circling their base but it ran so fast and the trees were so dense you couldn't clearly see anything other than a tall shape, until suddenly the thing stopped and ran right at them. It was a horrible being, long and thin, covered in dark hairs like an animal but walked like a man. The end of the hands excisted of small tenticals fastly slashing around like whips and the neck was stretched too long for any human to be possible. On top of it was the head of one of the missing girls, but covered in wrinkles like she had grown a hundred years older in just a few days. Most of the team members made it out of the forest on pure adrenaline and shock, but a few are still missing. Lately we hear more and more things running around in the forest at night............

   

What is love and what is pain? Why not ask an elderly person who has a lot of life experience. Satya Sai Maitreya Kali asked this to an old man, and if you'd like to know his answer then listen to this song.....

And now just shut up and enjoy.

                                               Satya Sai Maitreya Kali - Old Man