Art
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Blog 5: Dog Pissing Love – a Story about Chinese Tattoos
German Version I have been living in two cultures for many years. It’s interesting to see the effect when people choose words or symbols from another culture without knowing what they really mean. For example in China it is very trendy to wear T-shirts with English words or slogans. However, some well-known stars have worn T-shirts with prints such as „VAMP“, „Hustler“ or „social butterfly“ on TV or openly without realising what kind of wrong image they were portraying to the public and their fans. When I came to Europe I started seeing various tattoos using Chinese characters. Some of them were so strange that I didn’t know whether to laugh…
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Blog 3: The Clouds and the Sea
I just had a nice cruise on a ship to a number of islands with my family and totally fell in love with the clouds and the sea. Clouds change their shape all the time and have much more colours than I thought: other than white and cream they contain grey, pink, red, purple, beige and even gold… And I never thought that the sea looks so various at different times of the day and that the sea blue contains so many contrasting blues. I will learn how to paint the clouds and the sea and hope that one day I can paint them as vividly as they are in…