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The small things in this house

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The small things in this house

A new series I'll try to stick with

Hans
May 22, 2023
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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):

  1. Go for 11pm walks under the midnight sun

  2. Feel like you’re staying at a (secular) art monastery

  3. Explore the state of the surrounding trees weighed by snow

  4. Cook super simple meals because there are limited fresh produce around

  5. Go for a morning sauna because you can

  6. Find over 20 reading nooks, corners and spaces in different chairs

  7. Write your story on a 70 year old Artek table

  8. Experience complete darkness and moonlight during daytime

  9. Stay up to try to catch the northern lights

  10. Prepare kimchi fried rice in the outdoor kitchen with live fire

  11. Enjoy clear skies without trails of commercial airplanes

  12. Sit in complete silence and zone out

  13. Go ski down the forest where there are no pre-designated tracks

  14. Wait for reindeers to come close to the window

  15. See the birds eat mosquitos on the fly

  16. Sleep in because you have no idea what time it is

  17. Go about your day without mirrors in the house

  18. Nap because there’s nothing else to do

  19. Curate your own private gallery exhibition with the stuff you brought with you – a biographical exhibition of you today

  20. Work with clay in the art gallery

  21. Enjoy the art and ceramic work in all corners and cupboards of the house

  22. Drink coffee from handmade ceramic cups

  23. Sit indoors with a warm drink in 20 degrees when it’s -30 degrees outside

  24. Seek comfort that everything in the house is thought out for you to feel like you’re visiting an artist’s home

  25. 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.

Thank you for reading and subscribing.

Hans

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