I don't have much time for an update right now because I have to leave the studio to meet an artist, but I have a few important things.
Language class is going really well. It's easy and enjoyable and the teacher is nice and helpful. The language school is really diverse and I like seeing all the people in the cafe nearby on break because people have come from everywhere (yet everyone needs coffee). Not everyone in the city speaks English but I hope to acquire some handling of a means of communication, and I can do most things I need to.
Tomorrow is the start of Berlin's annual film festival, the Berlinale! For ten days I'll be going around the city to watch lots of movies, mostly in German, and to write stories and take pictures. I'll try to update about movies I see because as of now I know nothing about the schedule.
I've been having classes in the Gemäldegalerie which has a huge collection of original prints. Today we looked at Goya's "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" and Edvard Munch's "Madonna," as well as pieces by Gustav Klimt and Max Klinger. It's great to work with originals and really impressive, I might add.
I met an artist Loredana Nemes yesterday and I'm going to see her again to check out her studio and talk about being an artist in Berlin and what it takes to get where you're going, and if that makes any sense. It doesn't, but it's good to talk about things you don't know with people who know other things, and she had really nice photos and nice things to say about them. I'm hoping to make good connections with working artists and curators!
Das is alles for jetzt.
-Elili Jango
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it takes a lifetime to get where you're going, eli. that's what it takes! i am thrilled beyond belief at your sense of wonder and open-ness. but without warm hands and a full belly, that wonder quickly takes a back seat to basic human needs. such as the search for new gloves. find your next-best match yet?
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