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New Beginnings

29/11/2015

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Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Advent. In these days of darkness and cold I pray each one of us can find ways to feel warm and cheerful and appreciate the silken dark night blue skies and the spectacular sunsets (if the sun is out).
This week I made time to revamp my websites giving them the look and feel I would like them to have. I hope you like them too. Please do have a look at my websites both in English and German. Would love some feed back. Thank you.
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Isolation

24/11/2015

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I am posting a sketch I did in 2012 this week. It pains me to read about the terrible bombings and shootings in so many different parts of our world. We do feel isolated in our tiny little pockets that we create for ourselves. For me the trick is to constantly look for the "angels" that have a protective shield around our worlds and that still make our world a happy peaceful place to be in. A place to start is may be our own little pockets: let the LIGHT in so that we may break down the barriers that keep us isolated or aim to keep us isolated.
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Renaissance

15/11/2015

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I was at the Botticelli Exhibition in Berlin this week. The exhibition is put together very interestingly, highlighting our present day interest in our past. It was very interesting to see how important it is to us, to reinterpret ideas from our past. The idea of Venus, the Goddess of love, born from a very violent act: the severance of the male genitals. The implications of this act in the reinterpretation of violence against the female sex in today's world cannot unfortunately be denied.
However, my thoughts would not be complete without reference to the high skills the renaissance masters possessed. I was particularly taken in with Rossetti's pastel technique in La Donna della Finestra: it reminded me of my own Tondi. Here is one of them.
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Gratitude...

8/11/2015

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..begets more.
​Today (as always) i am particularly thankful for the many blessings I have in my life. Here is to a happy life of togetherness and the trust that is placed in me. Happy and still counting... Love and light to all.
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Tondi

1/11/2015

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My latest love are the Tondi. These round artworks have their origin in the Italian word Rotondo meaning round and ended up in the shortened form of Tondo (plural tondi). There are many masterpieces in this format, not only as paintings but also as sculptures, notably in Renaissance church art. Even Botticelli had Madonnas painted in this format.
Pictured here are the unseen terrains of a tiny piece of packing material, that remain hidden to the naked eye and are brought forth to our field of vision by a small glance into a microscope. This is part of a series of 16 tondi. Had fun doing this. Much light to you all!
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    Aruna Samivelu

    I am an artist. I live and work in Berlin.
    I started to paint colour fields (very much inspired by Mark Rothko and other American Abstract Expressionists) and now have evolved into an admirer of the Bauhaus Movement. I am still  a seeker: minimalist concrete art finds resonance in me, while the rich colours and traditional art forms of my home country that flow in me and breathe in me, also find expression in my work.
    My work, I believe is a synthesis of all these influences and seeming contradictions. I am now knocking a dent into concrete art, non objectively so to speak! I work serially and can endlessly look for emerging patterns in my work.
    This has been a wonderful journey, and as they say: the path is the destination.
    ​In my blog posts, I am letting you have a peek over my shoulder, into my sketch books and small works, which will someday flow into my big canvases and other works; works that I will actually display or exhibit (or may be not).
    My blog posts are more about my process and what motivates me to paint and create. 

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