tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87893997565374263852024-03-13T12:36:10.814-07:00Bella's FaithIsabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07293999224760802500noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789399756537426385.post-26349108826988337562016-08-19T12:15:00.000-07:002016-08-20T08:52:32.171-07:00REFLECTIONS ⎜ FILM ⎜ BLACK SWAN<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"We all know the story. </i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Virginal girl, pure and sweet, trapped in the body </i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>of a swan. She desires freedom </i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>but </i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>only true love can break the spell. Her wish </i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>is nearly </i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>granted in the form of a </i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>prince, but before he can declare his love her lustful twin, the </i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>black swan, tricks </i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and </i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>seduces him. Devastated the white swan leaps off a cliff killing </i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>herself and, in death, finds freedom." </i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This hauntingly beautiful film is directed by Darren Aronofsky (2010) and is mostly </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">considered a psychological thriller, and as Aronofsky says himself; contains elements </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">horror, paranoia and drama which have connected and come together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The film touches upon a variety of feelings and themes such as <b>pursuit of perfection</b>, <b>loss </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>of innocence</b>, <b>mental illness</b>, <b>identity</b> and <b>sexuality</b>. But the first thing that comes to mind is </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the loss of innocence. The fragile being Nina has literally been the white swan her whole </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">life, as she seems to have suppressed other desires and feelings such as her own sexuality, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">her own sense of identity and personality, as she seems to be sheltered by her over-protective </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">mother which conveys the message that Nina can only be truly safe in the presence of her </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">mother, by staying home behind closed doors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We first see Nina presented as this fragile, anxious little girl, desperately looking for </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">approval by always doing what she has been told, the right thing. In her meeting with her </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">new teacher and director Thomas Leroy her view of what is seen as "perfection", - what </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">she has aspired to become her whole life, is turned upside-down. Playing the roles for </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake has been her dream for long, yet unaware of what the play </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her fragility and sadness genuinely shines through in her role as the white swan, her state </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of mind being constantly tense, fearful and melancholic. It all comes along very naturally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But what about the other part, the evil twin - the seductive black swan?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In her world of innocence/adolescence there's a darkness lurking </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">underneath, the blood, the scratching on her back and the encounters with her evil </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">doppelgänger that seems to be haunting her, all is gradually floating up to the surface </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">throughout the film. Her psychological journey is about to unfold in the meeting of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">her complete opposite, her fellow ballet dancer Lily. She's everything Nina isn't and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">what she now so desperately aspires to be; tough, charismatic, sensual and has </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the ability of effortlessly let herself loose in her dancing. From the start Lily </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">seductively functions as a bite for Nina, to evoke her darker desires and feelings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The more she immerses herself into the role of the black swan, the more she </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>becomes</i> it herself. But due to her lack of self-esteem and haunting fear, the lines </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">between reality and her own delusions starts to blur. Nina is haunted by fear in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">everything she does, which develops into a paranoia, from her constant obsession </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of approval and perfection, also being extra anxious about the strong competition </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the the role, especially from Lily, that she might steal her role or surpass her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- But her strive for perfection is merely based on an illusion which along with her</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">distorted reality, contains destruction in order to achieve the perfection she's </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">aiming for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thomas Leroy: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>"The final act. Your final dance! You've tasted your dream. Touched it! Only to</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>have it crushed. Your heart is broken. Wounded! Your life force fading. The blood </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>drips. The black swan stole your love! There is only one way to end the pain. </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>You're not fearful, but filled with acceptance! And you look down at Rothbart </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>and then at the Prince. And then yes, the audience! And then you jump!"</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This act, this tragedy, becomes Nina's destiny too, and can also be seen as a visual </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">representation that is perceived as a metaphor of being a true artist; that you have to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">live it and breathe it, sacrifying your own self, getting lost in it for not only to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">create, but to become the artwork itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What was this darkness? This evil twin? Does it represent her fear of feelings she has </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">suppressed for long, which had developed into some inner demons she had to let go of in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a pursuit of freedom?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Was destruction her only doorway to freedom?) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's many takes on this, - did this persona reveal to some degree her true self? Or did </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">she use the role to channel her emotions, her struggles, as way of enabling herself to let </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">loose/go of her inner demons, so that by releasing them she could confront them, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">live/breathe them, and by the realization that they had possessed her she embraced it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">as a </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">part of becoming the perfect black swan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or just a reminder that she wasn't strong enough to cope with life's darker sides </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and difficulties?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- To this point her whole life seemed to resonate with the Swan Lake story, but </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">unlike </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the white swan she did in a way achieve her dream to play the role </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">perfectly, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">breathe it and live it, - not letting anyone or anything take it </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nina: I felt it. Perfect. I was perfect.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ever felt like you don't really know who you are? What you are doing and (why)? Are </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">you just being good cause it's good to be good? Ever thought about your own desires, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">what's selfish and what's not? Perhaps your own well being and happiness doesn't have </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to be entirely based on your own pleasures, but the person you become through the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">choices you make? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ever felt like you have some inner darkness, some unknown territory not yet </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">explored? Suppressed? Maybe you have just been hiding from what you truly are? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- Sometimes I wonder, can't I be anything, everything? I find every aspect of the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">human </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">condition beautiful, even the darkest, deepest; wounds, sorrows, loneliness, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">loss, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">getting hurt, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">which are all emotions we need to experience as a journey through </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">life, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to become who </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we are as these hardships pushes us to think, learning to use our </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">own power </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of reasoning in </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">order to learn to choose to act rationally and with </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">heart, not </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">by fear or </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">desire. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And by </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">developing your own thought you shape </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This song by Kansas called "Dust in the Wind" (1977) inspired me to write this post:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>"I close my eyes only for a moment, and the moment's gone</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's this subject that I never seem to get out of my mind, and that is the <b>passing of time</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The fact that moments, seconds, minutes pass by so quickly, it's like it's gone already before I get </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the chance to grasp it. And sometimes I find myself unable to recall what I've done the last few </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">days or weeks, which makes me start to question if that might reflect my inability to process all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the events, conversations, thoughts, writings that I encounter. I believe part of it can be the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">state of not being present in the moment which I think is better described as a "sleepwalker". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- Unaware that your consciousness is somewhere else, it's like your mind is set to autopilot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps your mind has taken trivial, everyday events for granted and lost the curiousity for life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and just got lost somewhere in between.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Technology, different forms of light entertainment such as social media, internet, television is a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">time </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">killer too I believe. Perhaps that's the answer to when we all say: <b>"Where did all that time go?"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When we spend 1/3 of our lives sleeping, we shouldn't "sleep away" another half of our lives?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Distractions are everywhere, I tend to pull myself together and distance myself, and "disconnect"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the internet world and impulses. In few words; focus, space, disposing time in a conscious matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's a combination of how we process and treasure our memories, and also a way of thinking,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a mentality that always thinks forward, ahead of time, which in fact just serves as an </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">illusion that distracts us from what is in front of us this very moment. Your reality is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">now. Not next friday, or when summer finally arrives. If we have this kind of mentality</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of always looking forward to the future, "future" has lost its value, for when the "future"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">arrives, we won't even realize, cause we are already looking forward to next weekend, </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Isabel H.R</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Life is fluid, its constant movement keeps it ever changing, reflections and echoes of</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>past personas shattered all over, still invisible to some. There's no force that holds it</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>in one place. It's like a stormy sea that never stays the same. Memories, even memories find</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>a way to slip through your fingers, unless you keep them dear in a precious box. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Events rise from above and dive back into the sea, though it's weightless, it sinks fading </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>into a memory. The only things that stays throughout the storm is the bonds, the feelings </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>that's been created with the people and the places you've met along the way, that is </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>something which is beyond the measure of time.</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>But the day will come, when I must depart, leave all my belongings behind and sink into the </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>bottomless sea - will there be any traces of me, flowing back up to the surface of the sea? </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Traces of thoughts, values, or loved ones that keep their idea of me in their memory. A picture</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>is the only thing that represent me physically. But is this really me, appearances are deceiving,</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>and pictures tells only one side of the story. What about all my writings whom I left alone on</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>my desk? Or perhaps a thought, a saying, led its singing way into someone else and lives on like a </b></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">whispering </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">wind? </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A form of consciousness in the present world, for the next generations to come.</span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I wonder if my mind will ever be echoed liked that, what a beautiful thing it would be.</b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- Just as little as you get to share of yourself with the the world, when you pass away, it's like</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">there's these fragments of you left shattered all over. No matter how transparent you felt your</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> life and your influence on the world has been, there is this need for those in your family that comes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">after you to </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">acknowledge your existence, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">because of this strange sense of belonging, cause you're all </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">related </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to one another. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What pieces will be left for your descendants </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to puzzle? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I always believed my thoughts were best translated into paper, as a piece of writing. It's a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">neutral zone where I can <b>write - think - reflect - write</b>. It enables me to observe objectively </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">what I'm thinking. The whole thing is like a thought process. So in a way it's a way of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">confronting yourself, cause once thoughts are translated into words, you can't escape them, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">cause they are literally brought to life. There's so much going on in our minds, so much that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we might even not be aware of. But if you step back a little, and take time to dive into that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">consciousness you might find a little seed, and bring it into life by starting writing about it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's basically like taking a thought and develop it to a higher level. It broadens my whole </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">awareness about who I want to be, what I believe in and how to communicate what's going </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">on in my mind to the people that surrounds me and how I see myself in the midst of it all,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think how you should process, store and value your life events, days, months, hours is entirely</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">life </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">not even </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">questioning themselves, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and that's perhaps when you end up saying; "Where did my </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are offered access to different kinds of worlds through numerous mediums like books, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">films and music. When our minds truly let go and we are completely immersed with that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">world that has invited us in, it's almost as if just for that moment, we are somewhere </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">completely else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some might say, that what you would like to call fantasy or fiction is just a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">form of escapism. I, on the contrary, think it's an extension of the wonderful ability </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we have called imagination. Any forms of art is merely a platform to channel and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">visualize and share what's going on in our minds, - our thoughts and our imagination. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's like a cultural community. What we think, feel and see in our minds might say </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">more about us as a person than what we can talk about and describe with mere </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">words. It's all a part of what shapes our sense of identity.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>"my head is a hive of words that won't settle" </b></span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>- Virginia Wolf</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Being able to experience and immerse ourselves with different kinds of art forms, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I believe it's more like an exploration of different ways of seeing reality. We all </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">perceive and look at the world and people around us in our own way wether we're </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">aware of it or not. So it's like a little peak into another persons mind, how they </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">see and sense the world, through their eyes. This makes films, books and music a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">wonderful collective thing. Like a collective consciousness, where we learn to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">understand different outlooks on life, different thoughts and perspectives. All </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">this is channelled through our imagination. It's a another way of communicating </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and connecting with people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes I've been wondering why I have a hard time communicating with </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">new people, communicating my ideas that represent me and just giving them </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a slightest sense of who I am. But it's hard to communicate cause I'm being </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">observed through a different lens.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>We are talking<br />but no one is listening</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>where are all the people</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>no one is at my frequency</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>where are they - where am I?</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>You look</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>but what you see <br />is a reflection of yourself</b></span></i></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>but all you listen to </b></i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>is the echo of yourself</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With this it's easy to feel disconnected with the world. You learn that no one </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">can know you like you do. But still there is this urge within to share yourself </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">with someone, even though you can still be independently happy.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"What does it mean, the right man?</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The love of your life? The concept is absurd. </b></span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>The idea that we can only be complete with </b></i></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>another person is evil."</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Back to the collective consciousness, this might be where you can share </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and discover feelings and thoughts you have in common with other people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">For instance, when you can relate to something on a personal level in for </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">example a movie, or there is something about the music in the film that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">resonates within you, if that other person shared a similar feeling, it occurs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a mutual understanding on some level. It could be a good foundation or </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">starting point for getting to know one another. Or if you shared your own </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">imaginative work, wether it's a piece of poetry, drawing or a photograph. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Regardless of its content, it's one small piece of yourself that you offer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In that sense it could be an alternative way of communicating, connecting </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or to share both of your individual views on a film, artwork or music </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">piece, could reveal a lot about your personalities. What a person choose to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">see, tells a whole lot about them, doesn't it? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This approach might be a good starting point;</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"My perception of reality is different from yours,</b></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our imagination says something profound about of our sense of identity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We can connect with other people through so many things. There's no limits; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To listen, to feel, to touch, to know, to share, to write, to trust, by eye contact, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">by a moment of silence, by sharing memories and the list goes on...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fiction and fantasy might be just as much part of reality, as the "reality" we </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">have been taught to see. Reality is defined by the very person that perceives </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love this little quote from the film</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Alice: But a dream is not reality. </b></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Mad Hatter: But who is to say which is which" </b></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's like we always look for terms and definitions of things that is nothing else </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">why would we try to limit it?</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"If the dream is a translation of waking life, <br />waking life is also a translation of the dream"</b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">K A R I N <b>⎮</b> B J A R N E</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This little piece is for my grandparents,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Karin</b> and <b>Bjarne</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />They got married in <b>1949</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I remember the story of the two of them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">my grandmother received numerous letters in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the mail from my grandfather, and at one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to my grandmother. It's a little bit clichè,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">but it's something so sweet about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">She always tells the story with such </span></div>
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Here's some of the small things I've gathered on my two week long trip to Portugal.<br />
A handmade flower band which I got in a small village called <b>Obidos</b>,<br />
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is a part of the heart and soul of the Portuguese culture. I've also got an<br />
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traditional portuguese farmer girl and a porcelain bird.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I've never really had the guts to try to do portraits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I suppose I never thought I would be able to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the artist himself. Perhaps the photographer are simply</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But sometimes the artist want to make use of the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">he expresses with his eyes is something quite</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">seductive, yet suspicious or dark. So with the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">that couldn't be exposed in the same way </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">maybe you're still on the road</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">searching</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">perhaps thats where</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">on the road </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">constantly changing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">new faces and discoveries </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">like a ghost</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">rushing through</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">no one who knows you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">no attachments</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">no strings to pull</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">you back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">just you and your </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">all the way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">that's when you'll see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">things are not what they seem</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">cause all the faces you've seen</span></div>
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1st picture and 7th picture is Valentino photographed by<br />Max Von Gumppenberg & Patrick Bienert<br />for Vogue Italia in March 2014.</div>
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Here's a little retrospective of some of the drawings <br />I've made over the past two years during my<br />time at the Art College.<br /><br />When I draw it's like this part of me that<br />intuitively expresses nature and especially animals.<br />I have always loved stories and tales, and the mystery</div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">I look forward to share my world with you all. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">I will call this blog a portal to my <i>dreams</i>, <i>artwork</i> and <i>inspirations</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">I am currently in my hometown in Norway enjoying my last month </span><br />
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