February 2008

February turned out to be another slow month - only one page done... Been focused on working on my master thesis that I really REALLY have to finish sooner better than later - rather yesterday than today, preferably last year! And since that's impossible, I've been trying to get it done as fast as possible and that means less scraptime. So only one page this month... Better than nothing but not too impressive...

Kampa

This is another layout from Praque - a layout about our visit to the art museum/gallery, Kampa. I loved it - Peder hated it...
The Quote displayed on the bottom of the layout is cut from a picture I took of the wall of the building - they had this quote written on a wall in the yard and I love it so I had to feature it on my layout.
The layout is very linear and simple but I like it - I think it works and it allows me to have two 10x15 pictures displayed (only trimmed slightly) and a lot of journaling. And I love the title in the white rub on letters!

Materials:

• Cardstock: Club Scrap A study in Red
• Font: Starbabe HMK
• Rub on letters: Scrapworks

Journaling:

• Quote:
  
If a nation's culture survives, then so too does the nation.
• English version:
  When we had finished at the churchyard we took a couple of trams back downtown and visited the Museum Kampa and bought tickets to the entire house. It wasn't a very big museum but it is housed in an old water mill close to the Charles Bridge and kind of lies on two sides of a small water stream as a reminder of the water mill. I thought it was cool - Peder hated it. It was the most boring museum I yet had dragged him too, completely snobbish and 'just shut down all support to the arts'. As stated earlier, I thought it was cool - interesting to see a bit of Andy Warhol, the connection between Mondrian and the Czech artist Kupla and their development from classic landscape paintings to a geometric expression was very interesting and in the permanent display they had several good pieces by Czech artists. Two pieces that especially spoke to me was a fingerprint where some of the impression was completely black, but in the places where you were able to see the lines of the finger, they were words (Touch of a Moment) and another piece called Second Stone Age that consisted of heavy wooden crosses - I don't know if the artist thought about holocaust and the destruction of the Jews when he created it, but in my personal context with all the things and places we have seen the last couple of days, this piece pointed to all the thousands of gravestones for the victims of the mass destructions during the Second World War.
• Danish version:
  Da vi var færdige på kirkegården, hoppede vi på et par sporvogne tilbage til centrum og gik på Museum Kampa, hvor vi købte billetter til hele huset. Det er ikke et særligt stort museum, men det er bygget i en gammel vandmølle tæt ved Karlsbroen og ligger ligesom på to sider af et lille vandløb, som minde om vandmøllen.. Jeg syntes det var fedt – Peder hadede det… Det var det mest kedelige museum jeg endnu havde taget ham med på, total snobbet og ”bare luk for støtten til kunsten”. Jeg syntes som sagt det var fedt – interessant at se lidt Andy Warhol, koblingen af Mondrian og den tjekkiske kunstner Kupla og deres fælles udvikling fra klassisk landskabsmaleri til et geometrisk udtryk var meget spændende, og i den permanente udstilling var der flere gode værker af tjekkiske kunstnere. To værker der især talte til mig var et fingeraftryk, hvor noget af aftrykket var helt sort, men der hvor man kunne se fingerens linjer var det ord (Touch of a Moment), samt et værk kaldet Second Stone Age der bestod af nogle tunge trækors – jeg ved ikke om kunstneren tænkte på holocaust og jødeforfølgelse, da han skabte dem, men i min personlige kontext med de ting og steder, vi har set de sidste par dage, henviste kunstværket i hvert fald til de tusinder af gravsten for ofrene for jødeforfølgelserne og masseudryddelserne under anden verdenskrig.

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