All is good, all is well. I have found some organisation in my project for school and this week it is finally time to sign some things off and really get a start on my Exam. I'm pushing on and getting things done. Starting to feel better about it again, after a bit of feeling like I wasn't doing anything and time was slipping away from me. Turns out I'm actually right on schedule.
Can I talk about music for a bit now? Because I really need to talk about something. Yes, a new Editors album, no I haven't properly listened to it yet. No, my attention has been on an album that's celebrated it's 20th birthday last week: (What's the story) Morning glory by Oasis. And it was wonderful.
In my time, I've heard a lot about this album and, of course, Wonderwall is one of those songs you just know. But for some reason I got curious a while back. I found myself looking for Oasis on Spotify and choosing the album with a name I'd heard many times before, containing a song I knew all to well. And I liked it.
This weekend, I felt like I needed it again and I found my way back to it when getting ready for a day in Amsterdam. It ended up being my soundtrack during the 4-hour train travel (2 hours back and forth). What a great piece of music for travel. Made every bit of my time in the train really enjoyable.
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| Breakfast ar LePain |
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| A few reds |
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| A soot artwork of dreams |
I was on these trains to visit Amsterdam for an exposition in the Stedelijk Museum about the ZERO art group. Oh, I loved it. And so did my mum and dad. It was all about minimalism, using and seeing the usual things differently and it was beautiful. The first thing you see when walking into the exposition, is a wall filled with white artworks. White on white with all kinds of different techniques. The rest of the exposition shows the use of different techniques, for example with soot and light and movement. The whole thing was so varied and interesting and incredibly inspirational.
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| Oh, Damien Hirst, you have my heart. |
We built a nice day in Amsterdam around it and I had a really good time. For most of my life, I didn't really like Amsterdam. I found it too busy and I didn't like the vibe it radiated. But this changed last year when I found a whole different, nice, peaceful, beautiful side of Amsterdam and now I found myself being happy when the train drove into the station.
The decor is incredible and I probably could never get enough of capturing it, but the good thing about a capital is that it has these little interesting shops with design interior, art and clothes that you just don't find in your normal city. This time we visited a shop with HAY products and me and my mum went crazy for as good as all their interior stuff. We loved it there. We also came across a gallery that sold Damien Hirst art. My heart was happy. I could completely invision myself hanging his circle Mickey Mouse artwork in my nursery and be really happy with myself. So we walked around there and drooled over the amazing Damien Hirst and Banksy art.
I'm so glad I've found the charm in Amsterdam. It's such and enjoyable place now and I always want to go back and just hang around a little.
Have a nice life,
Xoxo
Winnie.
