Moving forward with the second leg of our project with Laureline Demonet – Indvielsen | Initiation: The Danish Tribe.
A small selection of the images of Julia from Mozambique and her mask designed by Laureline.
100 Days of Inner Art – Final Greece Works
During my art retreat stay in Greece at Stavrianna Natural Farm, where I was hosting Finding Creative Flow course, I also continued to work on my art project – 100 days of Inner Art.
Now, looking at those pages, I can clearly see the influence of the Greece colors and palettes that I was observing during my morning, day or evening sketching trips around the area. Moreover, it will be interesting further to compare those to the ones I will make during my stay in Latvia… Follow along #100daysofinnerart
Wenjie – Indvielsen – The Danish Tribe
I’m continuing to work on the second leg of our project with Laureline Demonet – Indvielsen | Initiation: The Danish Tribe.
Here are some of the images of Wenjie and her mask, designed by Laureline.
Nepal Trip Sketches | December 2016 – January 2017
Tansen, Nepal, December 2016
Continuing to develop the films I had with me during my one month trip to Nepal.
One sunset in Kadaga
A Day in Kathmandu, Nepal, December, 2016
I have spent one month in Nepal – mid December 2016 to mid January 2017. Part of my trip I spent in Lumbini for a 10-day vipassana meditation course. One day I will write about it, otherwise just ask me when we meet – I am happy to share my experience.
These days I mostly sketch during my travels and take occasional photos with my ipad. This time around I took my film camera, good old Canon AE-1P.
Here are some photos from one day in Kathmandu.
What I am Working On Now – July 2017
Most of July 2017 I am based in our Latvian countryside house nearby Kadaga / Adazi.
This month is dedicated to regaining my own balance, reconnecting with my own past, clearing out old books and papers, exploring my family roots and mental traveling through time…
There is a possibility to join me for Finding Creative Flow sessions – contact me for more information.
As a follow-up to the Time Perspective Network meeting in Potsdam, I’m collaborating with Marc Wittmann on a paper: Orientation to the present and future and its role in pro-environmental behaviour and sustainability.
I’m continuing to work on the #100daysofinnerart project, which I have decided to exhibit during the art festival in Tunisia later this August.
I’m taking more visual notes while on location for my Book of Memory: Riga Chapter project – follow along: #bookofmemoryrigachapter
I’m coming back to the idea of creating something out of my father’s music collection of over 4000 tapes and various other objects from the Soviet times – Blast from the Past. Contact me if you have any ideas or museums that might be interested in this!
Working on the second leg of the Indvielsen project – stay tuned to see the new portraits!
End of July – beginning of August, I’m traveling with my mom to her home town – Chelyabinsk, Russia – to spend some time with my aunts and cousins and their kids.
How do I manage all of the above and a few things that were left out? I love working with my version of the bullet journal and I also follow my own medicine regarding taking the creative breaks.
I am available for giving workshops on how to deal with culture shock and using creativity as a resource. I would be thrilled to develop a tailored talk / workshop regarding time, creativity and your field of interest.
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Page was updated in July 2017.
Book of Memory: Riga Chapter
Memory: the space in which a thing happens for the second time.
~ Paul Auster
The Book of Memory
Back in February 2017 I was reading Paul Aster’s: The Book of Memory and many things there have triggered my own memories and interpretations. Somehow it really triggered particular memories from one of the places we used to live in Riga. Maybe because it was the longest time ever I lived in one place without moving – for 15 years we managed to stay in one place. Otherwise it was and still is a constant change.
Memory as a room…
Meeting at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
On June 22, 2017 the mini-symposium Thinking the Present and Future – Psychological Insights on the Role of Subjective Time organized by Marc Wittmann was held at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V., Potsdam, Germany.
Marc has invited me, Maciej Stolarsky (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland), Oksana Senyk (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine) and Oleksiy Polunin (Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, Kyiv, Ukraine) to present some insights about the irrational behaviour of people in general and the role time perspective plays in sustainability decisions in particular.
We met with the researchers from the Futurisation of Politics group, who work on the following issues: the potential benefits for transformations towards sustainability of a conscious approach to long-term issues in policy design, the representation of future generations in contemporary politics and the circumstances under which their representation might be improved, developing a nuanced and critical understanding of the deployment of time horizons in politics and science. Overall, the project links research perspectives on future challenges and sustainable action across the fields of philosophy, political science, economics and social-psychology.
Program of the meeting included the following talks:
Maciej Stolarski: Looking at time horizons from an aerial view: The role of meta-cognitive processes in balancing one’s own time perspective profile
Oksana Senyk: The effects of socio-economic crisis on youth’s time perspective: case of Ukrainian 17-24- year-olds
Oleksiy Polunin: Mental representation of time flow as modulator of human behavior
Anna Sircova: Individual differences in time perspective and sustainable behavior: Participatory simulation and debate
It was a very inspiring day and of course it was a great pleasure to meet everyone in person! And as a surprising finale of the meeting, me and Maciej were interviewed by Gerhard Richter from Deutschlandfunk (German National Public Radio). Will send the link once our interview will go live!
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