Silver Beam

Sometimes we do stupid things. Or things that seem stupid in the beginning or that we are unsure of and turn out to be something really good. So good that we start thinking ‘Allaħares m’għamiltx hekk’ or ‘Allaħares ma mortx’. (So that doesn’t have a proper translation but it’s something around ‘I don’t want to imagine how things would be hadn’t I gone there/done that.’ The literal translation from Maltese would be ‘God forbid I didn’t do that/go there’ but it doesn’t make sense. So you understand.). Anyway, before I start badly lecturing about things you should do without thinking, I’ll stay on the original topic (ie. Art. I mean to get to talking about art somewhere.) Additional warning, this post might be accidentally a bit long.

There are a few things I cannot imagine how my life would have turned out had I not done them in the way I did. I’m exaggerating, of course. My life would probably still be the same. But let’s say that there would be a tiny list of mainly;

• Werchter (last year that is, this year is a blurry dream in the sky with no solid foundations)
• This whole Germany thing (what the hell was I thinking? :p)
• Mini-European Assembly (No comments, but very… changing)
• Some work (Pretty Summers!)
• Karlsruhe Classical Modern and Contemporary Art Fair (new addition and the prettiest)

So, the last one is the most recent. I’d seen a billboard ad of this art fair at the Freiburg train station and it did interest me but it was more like something around the ‘as ifs’ and ‘I wish’. Then I got my Saturday off and made plans to go to Basel with a friend, but she decided that she wanted to meet another friend so I was left with no plans for my Saturday. I have other friends but since one went back home to Hungary (Pity, Freiburg will be so nice in Spring!), another was away and the rest are pretty much none existent I was left with a blank day. I don’t know how I remembered the art fair and decided to go (Luke pushed me a bit, but yeah, it’s art and Luke, what do you expect). So I made plans at 10pm to go to the art fair the next day.

I had a good start of the day, it started snowing before I left home (I was seriously wondering why does it always have to snow when I plan long train trips) although my train was just one hour I was still thinking SNOW! AND TODAY AGAIN? But I don’t do last minute change in plans (I actually do, a lot, but I couldn’t then. You cannot mess with yummy plans like that). So I went anyway up to Karlsruhe on my own, and to the fair. And then it gets dreamy and I cannot explain why. You have to be there to feel it. Because I’m starting to really believe that you cannot only see art. It’s surrounded with another thousand things which can range from happy feelings to hyperactiveness – it’s strange really. I guess this blog post will make me sound very… art-sy (wrong word, but you get it). But sometimes I just don’t understand how people can go about without appreciating art, or literature, or music, or everything.

No photos were allowed (which wasn’t a problem really, you have to be there to see the thing, not see the photos to see how great it is.) But I found a few on their website (copyright to all respective owners, of course-y and click to enlarge):

Yes, pretty sights. So it was a great solitary day out, something we should all try someday; go out and appreciate without anyone messing with our opinions and thoughts. I mean, I do it quite often but then again I need a life.