The small things in this house
This is a work-in-progress piece (what isn’t?) and the goal for this note is to start develop a way to talk about the house and the small pleasures you can have here, in a way that is personal, within context and hopefully welcoming to artists and guests.
The aim is to further expand on each point below and bring some research and study into them. Let’s see how it goes.
This is the current working list of things you can do at/by the House (seasons are mixed):
Go for 11pm walks under the midnight sun
Feel like you’re staying at a (secular) art monastery
Explore the state of the surrounding trees weighed by snow
Cook super simple meals because there are limited fresh produce around
Go for a morning sauna because you can
Find over 20 reading nooks, corners and spaces in different chairs
Write your story on a 70 year old Artek table
Experience complete darkness and moonlight during daytime
Stay up to try to catch the northern lights
Prepare kimchi fried rice in the outdoor kitchen with live fire
Enjoy clear skies without trails of commercial airplanes
Sit in complete silence and zone out
Go ski down the forest where there are no pre-designated tracks
Wait for reindeers to come close to the window
See the birds eat mosquitos on the fly
Sleep in because you have no idea what time it is
Go about your day without mirrors in the house
Nap because there’s nothing else to do
Curate your own private gallery exhibition with the stuff you brought with you – a biographical exhibition of you today
Work with clay in the art gallery
Enjoy the art and ceramic work in all corners and cupboards of the house
Drink coffee from handmade ceramic cups
Sit indoors with a warm drink in 20 degrees when it’s -30 degrees outside
Seek comfort that everything in the house is thought out for you to feel like you’re visiting an artist’s home
Be reminded of the world of excess and live a world of little and few
That’s the list. Any more come to your mind? Please let me know.
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Hans