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Gaumarjos Lukas,

My thoughts are about ways of communicating, building bridges…

I think you have been to the UK several times, haven’t you? When was the last time you visited? I am thinking about what would be the key elements that can interest people to communicate between Georgia and UK?  What do you think are possible similarities in terms of social structure and qualities of the Georgian and British nations/individuals?

I think would be nice to create an imaginary device for communicating between us.

x Andro

I thought about how important it was for artists to share their ordinary and at the same moment unique life stories with each-other. And how socializing the ideas can help Artists to understand their own world. The dialog process was interesting and counter productive for me and my partner Andro Semeiko. Imagine Art After has done a great work for the development of interactive connections between artists; the live example is me and Andro.

Little Secret here:

We like the Idea of the dialog and it is most likely that we will continue our dialog outside IAA. We might also create a new blog together with andro, or might use LukaZet.com for our cooperative projects. Of course awaiting Andros answer about this idea. I would like to say big thanks to IAA Team, and special Thanks to Breda Beban who made this not only possible, but actually happen.

Luka Zet / Zautashvili

EDITED ON FEBRUARY 8 2010 by Luka,

We continue our dialog here as Imagine Art After stays the better place for us to continue our dialogs.

You know it exactly, it seems Georgia never stops to celebrate. 2nd NewYears is a bit strange though. I’ve started to work on my projects straight after the Main NewYear, even though rest of the country still celebrates the second NewYear. But I’m sure monday will be more productive for many.

Sorry no watermelons Yet

Cheers

Luka

so how you are going to spend this day will define the rest of the year,

I am off to make some art at my studio and will meet some friends later.

Also I am thinking about khachapuri and Georgian watermelons… Luka could you please send some over for me in the shuttle, if you will find time of course?

x Andro

what do I “feel when making art or a film”?  I go blank.

You touched interesting themes in this Post. Question: what do I want? if I read this question straight, without contexts or my subjective beliefs, than wanting is already an emotionally empowered word - if we WANT art or something else than it will be motivated exactly by curiosities, passions and likings which already pre-describe the hidden desire or goal which we try to pursue. I cannot answer your question as my answer will regret the question itself so I will ask another question: What do you feel when you create art or a film? Luka

Shuttle Kantzi sends you best wishes for the coming New Year !

by old calendar

x Andro

Christian religion is the basis of the morals of the society here but really even most people who go on Sunday to church and say they believe they really are less involved in it then any Georgian believer would be. Basically, most white Christians in England except some sects lead a secular life.

x Andro

That must be a horrible time then, I remember those war periods like a scene from a movie. As a child it looked like everything was fine, during the war in Tbilisi, and in Sukhumi, that’s probably when child’s defensive feelings work well. But on religious part it was pretty dogmatic always in Georgia.

Religious Dogmatism

Probably things have changed a little bit for a category of people - mostly young. Still the majority remains in the same dogmatic position. I remember when one of my friends told me with amazement that one of the new churches has got 12 little churches inside and some golden engravings on candle holders. As I was a bit skeptical towards the church in general I ask him what was the motivation of his such a great amazement towards material aspects of the church and if he knew the meanings of some religious rituals or why does he follow them. He couldn’t really answer me and just said something like this: you are not aloud to speak about it, or criticize the traditions! It is definitely understandable how this religious dogmatism work and how it appears in the society. So from this example you can clearly see the unconscious process of religious fanatics. I can not judge personal beliefs as I do respect them in a way, but I can certainly say that most part of personal, spiritual progress in religious part comes from mostly conscious activities as well as unconscious.

Surely things change and things are being re-evaluated, as people become tired of bounded senses, and strict directions.

How would you describe British aspects of religious life?

Hi Luka,

The Christmase in Georgia I remember the most was after the war in Abkhazia and it was very gloomy experience. Mothers of dead soldiers dressed in black crying and praying… There was a disturbingly dogmatic church I remember but there was a true sence of spirituality between people, grief was shared.

These pics you posted make me see young people are more positive about life in Georgia.Who organised this event, and are the young people taking part deeply religious? Maybe Christmas for young Georgians is becoming less religious and more traditional festive celebration?

I didn’t understand what you mean that “secret codes must be revealed by public at the same second they appear or start to become secrets.” Please explain to me, sound intriging.

I also agree we should think more on other ways of working together. Would you like to suggest something?

Take care,

Andro

As in Orthodox country, today 7th of January is Christmas in Georgia. I hear prayers from my neighbor’s TV and Seeing Candles lighted in almost every window. This holiday is one of the most popular in Georgia, tomorrow almost every street will be closed for public walk and religious ceremonials. All residents of countries: Macedonia, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Russia, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and Moldova – Merry Christmas to you.

Andro do you Remember any Christmas while in Georgia?

Some pictures from last Christmas:

Hi Luka, I am happy you are positive about new ideas. i will be back in Berwick-upon-Tweed tomorrow, where I have a stable internet connection and I will reply to you.

Merry Christmas Georgian style!

x Andro

Andro thank you very much for wonderful greetings - real Georgian style . I want to wish you calmness, good feelings, and great steps in this New 2010 YEAR.

Oh the Kantsi, its been a long time since I’ve tried drinking from it.

How is your New Year Starting?

Shuttle Kantzi,

Andro this is interesting, I think this is a very productive and hard working experience! I would like to hear more description about the shuttle kantzi electronic device, what do you think would it be like?

Thoughts about Secrets,

In a way I think secrets are great when they represent personal feelings, but in a global context it seems a bit un-open.

So if we are decided on this project: I would like to add a little detail which I believe will bring more openness and interaction with the world.

I think secret codes must be revealed by public at the same second they appear or start to become secrets. How do you like this one?

Alternative Project: Also before we get to the production process, I think we should think more on other types and ways of our WORK.

My suggestion is to keep more active dialog during the upcoming days.

Luka, I wish you success and happiness in the coming year !

x x x   Andro

Transmitter_BASE2F, Yu-Chen Wang and Andro Semeiko, 2009

In addition to the secret code I think we need to develop more things.

I think we need to find an alternative transportation device between our communities. We will want to visit each other sometime in the future, wont we?

I will start making blueprints for the device; provisional name Shuttle Kantzi. This Kantzi will be able to travel through an electromagnetic rainbow, similar to the one you can see in my blog bellow from November 30^th and it will connect your and my art communities, from Georgia to UK and back…

Will be in touch with the sketched of the device shortly.

Regards,

Andro

Did you already drink wine with friends from a bull’s horn, from Kantzi?

Andro

For the last 4 days I have been having a great time with friends doing nothing except eating and drinking, a lot of it was at my flat in the London street which is on my profile picture. I am thinking about art now, what its going to be like in 2010 and how you and me are gonna develop the secret code for communication. Any thoughts?

Andro

Best wishes to you and your friends and relatives from London!

x Andro

Hi Luka,

I agree that art is and works as a language and that is great. And we just have to continue making art and get it out there and it communicates. But what about also creating a secret code for communication between art tribes over internet? We can work on it as an artwork. A project called Artists Dialect for example, with an element of humour and a realisation that it might fail, but the journey to try to think about it can produce something interesting?

Lets discuss some rules for communication between you and me:

a. Next time we talk to each other over skype we should whisper.

b. If we are going to send each other pictures lets blur them first so no one else can decode the image.

etc…

can you come up with some?

Best wishes, Andro

Good Evening Andro,

About the secret art language:

It is interesting even though it’s so much utopian but may have some fun with inventing the new language, I think we already have our language which is art itself and I see how nicely you use it in this dialog. I think art will never get hurt from corporate as they will never be able to get the true point of it.

Just now was thinking of what would art after be like? What I did is: I have simply written down several existing components of the practical aspects of Art today.

Beside the essence of art what else is configuring art today

Information:

TV, Newspapers, Music, Sounds, Drawing, Video, etc…

And it all comes up as expression or self expression.

Shapes and forms of Art Today

Installation – Installation which has many connections with sculpture and architecture today is one of the most spread ways of expressing art.

Performance – For me performances are something like acting for some specific reason, still think that it has a lot in common with tribal rituals.

Media Art – Bounded to technology, created specially for lazy talented people.

Music- which might also be part of media art has always had significant emotional (positive or negative) effect on people.

Some Oldest techniques used today

Drawing – coming since the guy who had fist painted an animal on the rock. Doesn’t really matter how it started, it is still one of the strongest known method of self-expressing.

Sculpting – an art of making shapes and forms. Long period has passed since it changed its original form, can say the same about art in general.

Writing – was always a good way of expressing personal (physical or mental) experiences. Even though writing might not fall in the original category of art, I think many great writers have had the artistic nature which in essence revealed thoughts in the written shape, thus creating the basic mental process (position) similar as art does.

Every above mentioned ways of expressing art may evoke emotion, inspire people or provoke certain mental action. And what they all have in common is that it is made by individual, or a group of individuals.

Even though forms of expressing have varied from time to time, technology today has a big impact on what is art today.

So what is art today and what it might be in future? – Imagine Art After

If closely considered the fact of distinguishing art from other ways of personal expressions, it has always been powered by individuals who have created this or that art work. Think of any period when art was nothing but drawing on a peace of rock. What was its value?

If you agree that everything that has a value has it because we think it is valuable or important, than you can clearly see how individual qualities consider the future position of art. Or maybe art that is close to some kind of objective truth is considered as true art? Recently one of my friends asked me after she saw my work with Natuka.G “The INFO TUBE” on “artisterium 09”: Luka what do you call objective truth? Isn’t objective the general thought of many people about something? My answer was: Of-course Not! What later came up to me was that even my opinion about Objective Truth is totally different, generally- objective is considered as something acknowledged by many human beings, or  created cliché from many similar subjective opinions.

In the previous subheading I consciously didn’t mention a sense or essence of art, to leave some space for you to imagine what is art in reality and what would it be in future. Also so that corporate won’t understand things clearly .

Conclusion

Not going far in philosophy something that came up to me as a result of strong belief in art as a wonderful medium of self expression gives me the right to say that art after, which might have different shapes will be always essentially empowered by an individual himself.

How do you imagine art today and in future?

Hi Luka,

Yes I am still in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Its misty and freezing at the moment, but its dry here so its not too cold. I just have to cycle carefully home…

Thank you for telling me the ideas around your work in progress “SEARCH”. The ideas sound worthwhile working on.

I think when we are looking to achieve something we often fail to acknowledge that the process of SEARCHING might be more important and fruitful for us then actually executing an idea. Its good to have the idea as a goal, but the beauty is that it will change while we are on the way to it. The idea will become more sophisticated and less idealist.
But I think its great to maintain a little bit of idealism.

It is great to see your enthusiasm about finding different ways of communicating for artists.

I suppose corporate world haven’t yet understood and integrated tribe communications. Therefore maybe, having Imagine Art After as a platform of connecting art communities, you and I can develop an art language or a set of codes of conduct, like secret societies do?

I mean not something excluding other artists but a way of communicating that wouldn’t be as a ‘matter-of-fact’ for sales tactics of corporate world?

If you are interested lets discuss and research that. Please also let me know your ideas about the ways of communicating, you might have better ones.

x Andro

John Baldessari, Raised Eyebrows, 2009

Hi Andro,

It is 7 am in Tbilisi now,

Got 2 more projects for design of books, which is good but takes some nice portion of time .

The Basic Concept around my work in progress “SEARCH”:

The Part shown here is only the 4th one so its hard to see the concept clearly, the basic thing which is going on in parts 1,2,3 is the revealing of different Ambitious WISHES. Everything starts from SEARCHING the wishes on the Net.

Where 1^st is connected with Goals the perfective vision of future, and so on, till the ambitious wishes transform into basic needs like searching for food etc…

I believe that every human being well at least most has the power to achieve his/her wishes no matter how impossible it might seem.

So this work in progress is showing some kind of transition where people loose their ambitious wishes (mostly Brilliant), which is a sad reality for many.

Drawing

Of course I draw when I feel to,

Sometimes it seems hard to take time to draw, work, design, think of other projects, etc…but you know it is something that I think every Artist must try not to loose no matter what other media he is working on.

Corporate Domination

It’s good that you take time to discus things with your friends; it will be great to hear comments from your friend also. I agree that the companies who’ll use the community concept their power will increase, but even though many companies might use it, I don’t think that this might somehow affect artists; even more; It might help people to become more socially interested in art communities. The only downside I see is that some category of people might be aware of any kinds of communities at all, in case if those corporate offers will start to annoy them again. Generally I think that many huge companies have always used people for their own needs, so I don’t think that this can damage already existing Art communities.

And yes if we create something new, a different way of communication it would be wonderful, and I’m sure that it wouldn’t be a problem at all. Artists always manage to create things that nobody else has ever thought of; In this case history is on our side.

How do you think is it time for artists to think for a new way of communication?

Still in Berwick?

Hi Luka,

Thanks for the link to your work in progress. What is its general concept or framework?

Thank you for your comments about Baron, it is one of my favourites too. Do you paint sometimes?

My weekend was good. I came down to London and had dinner with my girlfriend and several friends at our place. We talked about art and I showed them your and my IAA blog. They were quite skeptical of Seth Godin’s agenda and political position. I hope one of my friends will comment on it later.

I think its great at the moment to communicate like we do between artists groups and I hope more Georgian artists will adopt and gain from communication and information through such sources. But if corporate companies are going integrate their sales tactics into tribe like communication, it will result in their domination. And artists will have to look for different ways of communicating I think.

Aba he,

Andro

Hi andro,

Thank you for the emotional answer about the SUPER ART WORLD, just want to state that my point is not about making it super or not. But I think analyzes will never hurt, we will definitely manage to speak about in person. Didn’t mention about your paintings, they are pretty impressive especially the “BARON”. How was your weekend btw?

This is one of my latest Video projects which I’m working on at the moment yet.

‘SEARCH’Part 4 by Luka Zet / Zautashvili

Hi Luka,

From my own experience I can see that connecting to different art communities has been essential for my development as an artist. Communication with them happens most of the time by e-mail and internet. So the experience I have of these communities and individuals is mainly virtual. I get a lot of interesting ideas about art from them and hopefully they get from me too. As a result we end up doing projects together and also physically visiting each others places. I enjoy this and I would like this to grows.

But I don’t think I would like this to turn into an art world/a network operating on a level of mass media. It will not be art anymore I think. Why would you want a SUPER ART WORLD anyway? I do believe that art communities all over the world will be at some point highly interconnected and one might call it a kind of one art world, but for it to stay a creative and exciting place there will have to be strong separations within it.

Otherwise there will be too much information, and there wont be many genuine messages and much creativity in it.

Take care,

Andro Semeiko

Good point about the imagine art after, community concept (or super art concept).

To continue this theme I would like to bring up some of the root concepts of this IDEA. This is a marketing strategy of the new era for the huge companies operating online like Google, yahoo and others. This Idea was based on internet researches of the consumer’s reaction on this or that offer. Essentially the normal marketing concept was far not efficient any more this days, as people did get aware of other (unknown) people offerings - something on the net or ads that appear unexpectedly.

When analyzing this issue this questions might come up:

What motivates people to say that about institutional art life?

and

What was the basis to think this would be possible or that this is important?

Would it help to create super ART world?

Is it possible for ART to be as co-productive as other social media mass production products? Whether it is possible or not, art does have a platform, and it does influence people to take certain action on this or that mostly mental issues.

As an explanatory to this I would like to hear a position, an opinion or something that stays behind, this idea from your point of view. - Simply, what do you think about the informational potential of art as means of mass share culture?

This Video here might have certain answers (in general) to this question. Also bringing the aspect of CHANGES.

Baron, 75x50cm, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2009

Portraits of Unknown II, 16x12cm, acrylic on board, 2009

Black Pom-pon, 28x27cm, acrylic and oil on board, 2009

Pillar of Wisdom, 158x122cm, acrylic and oil on board, 2009

Hi Luka,

Yes I am interested in knights and castles. I like armour as a thing that disguise human being. But actually we ended up not going to see the castle, we took a walk by the beach and then got a big lobster from a local fisherman and had a nice meal.

People talk today that there wont be centres of art anymore. There will be more communities from around the world that are strongly connected to each other. So I suppose what Imagine Art After is doing by these discussions is facilitating a kind of experience close to that.

I am attaching a picture of an amazing rainbow we saw from my bedroom window this morning.

Andro

Just checked the map for Berwick it is quite far from London. Great place on first look searches on Google show up with the images of bridges and old beautiful castles, so its quite closely brings the associations of knights. Interested in your works with knights are they somehow connected to Uk? (might be or not) Or more to your childhood?

Changes!

Let me also try to connect changes with Imagine Art After, I think IAA is also one of the ways of changing the Art reality which might be sometimes exactly as you called (circulating up to date ideas), to something, lets say different in a Wider Context. Do let me know your opinion about this project also.

Have a good journey in the CASTLE,

Luka

Berwick-upon-Tweed is on an eastern coast of English-Scottish boarder. It is cold place in the winter. But at the moment it is surprisingly mild and sunny. My girlfriend came to visit so we have been parting last night with my local new friends. We also went to see the band The Unthanks. Today we are going to a nearby castle.

I haven’t lived for a long period of time anywhere else then London for the last 9 years. So changes of location are not so common for me but I feel they must be good for me. Particularly such an inspiring place like this.

Good evening Andro,

Thanks for an interesting explanation of making art in Uk. Have never heard of Berwick-Upon-Tweed and not really sure where it is geographically, is it cold there? I love changes even though some might seem to be difficult to analyze, but in a long term changes do bring interesting interconnections between what you really want and what you might have been doing in reality. How do you think about it? Are changes common to you?

It’s the first time I am going to be living for a long period of time outside of London in the UK, and I can see that my motivations to make art are already different.

There is a small art world in a nearby town Newcastle upon Tyne that is developing into something more centred and with a character rather then always referring to London and celebrating artists from there. I went to see and meet people in Newcastle upon Tyne couple of times and I can see it is a good place to get involved. But here I have to self motivate myself… it is different… and I feel its good for me for a change to be in a place like Berwick-upon-Tweed where I have to discover things to make art about, rather then to be in a place where you are constantly aware of art world and all the circulating up to date ideas.

So I am thinking now; maybe for most of the artists it is going to be good to travel and live in different places for reinventing themselves and being sharp…

Good evening to you Luka,

Andro

Luka,

I love Georgian melons. This work sound like fun. And I would love to take part together with you in some projects there if appropriate work comes up.

About motivations to make art in the London:

The structure is here for you to be encouraged to make art: There are many good art colleges here. There are so many art exhibitions and events to see everyday of the week. There is clearly present art market here today.

This constant encouragement is both good and bad. There are many people here who got into art because it is fashionable or just think of it as a business.

If you are genuinely interested making art and you are ready to experiment you just can’t avoid making it here. There are many interesting artists in London who hardly survive on their income from making art but they still continue and often do part-time jobs.

But I suppose motivation to make art are different in the rest of the UK…

Best, Andro

I’m glad that you do share my feelings of motivations on the importance of space, sense and people. Didn’t new that you was from Ozurgeti, actually people there are great I wish I had a video uploaded from the Ozurgetian artists works. I definitely will format it an upload it somewhere, but I’ve got one of the stills here:

This work is called in a very strange, like Ozurgetian slang ) Titled: “deetxuet xatvas” (something like enough drawing) and that guy made the video about a watermelon seller who is actually drawing on Watermelons, and sells them very effectively because of that, he seems very popular through the Ozurgetian Watermelon consumers. ) So the artist Giorgia Darchia who is probably about 45+ years and has never worked with Video, has made pretty wonderful work, with a special music selected “Nina Simone – Sinnerman”. His message was probably towards all those ozurgetian artists who never stop drawing Still life and Landscapes in an Academic way. What was the funniest story there that the watermelon seller actually came to the exhibition and as a result became even more popular than before; he gave interviews to almost every huge Georgian TV channels. But Probably now he is waiting for the next watermelon season .

I think that we might continue this project next year (depends on funding) and I would be glad to invite you to join us. You might have a good impact on Ozurgetians as you are from that area. what do you think?

Strip tease!

Yes you are right it was like that several years ago, but now many girls do dance and well some part are Georgians but about half of them say that they are Ukrainians, and have invented new names for themselves, it seems it is because to prevent them from being followed or anything else. I met one of them who is very interesting person as she did tell me all this stuff about their job, but even though they got big salary, still have not so big freedom as most of the time they spent dancing strip tease and sleeping as well as lot of restrictions are applied in their contracts.

Sorry have no image from there .

That IceAge film is pretty funny haven’t seen the whole movie though, I was just tagged by one of my friend that’s why it appeared on my profile.

Ok so you didn’t drink a lot, I thought you went to the Pub.

Luka

Forgot to ask you. How did you visit to Strip Club go?
Did you talk to the girls? About 10 years ago I cant imagine any girl openly working in a place like that without being looked down on by the conservative Georgian society. I wonder if things are different now… are there any Georgian girls working there? Andro

Hi Luka,
I think it is a great idea to travel around Georgia and participate and collaborate with local artists like you did. That hasn’t been happening much before and sound like a positive and exciting development. I am by origin from one of the cities you mentioned, Ozurgeti. After what you just said I got excited and started to imagine that an art world can exist in Ozurgeti too…
Thank you for your reply about your motivations. I agree that the key points to be motivated to make art in Georgia must be what you said; the space in all the aspects, and of the sense and attitude of people there.
And maybe it is also interesting and exciting to do art there because things have not been shaped yet into a solid art world and your steps together with others can be defining the future of it? Do you think this is also part of your motivations?
I will start thinking about my motivations to make art in UK and will post it shortly.
Andro
PS: Oh whiskey… yes I did have couple shots last night with a friend but it wasn’t as romantic as I planed it. I tried to light the fireplace but failed to do it, and gave up.
I spend my time on internet. In fact I looked at your Facebook post from one of the Ice Age films. From which one of them is that clip:1, 2 or 3?

Working on the web design project at the moment, for a book shop, yes Georgian one. The process itself is quite interesting as I have the whole freedom of imagination to use there.
About your question on my motivation of creating art in Georgia:
I would say that for me personally it is work and creative process anywhere wherever artist performs, but of course everything has got the reason. At this moment I do find good inspiration to work in Georgia as I believe it (Georgia in general) does have lots of good qualities in it which are either hidden or misused. I would not call it a physical quality but simply speaking a sense, some might call it differently but you can definitely feel it if you want.
For physical aspects there are many advantages and disadvantages, as you might know there are many very big material (financial) problems for a large number of Georgian population, but on the other hand if you notice their style of living or their total happiness of being so much relaxed at some little moments, makes them to love their way of life. (but yes they do complain J ) last statement Doesn’t apply to every non-working Georgian!
So this situation creates multiple cultural variations of the way of life, and essentially you find interesting aspects of working in these surroundings where Money can mean everything and at the same moment nothing at all, where old can be new, and where nothing really matters. I feel that stating my opinion in this or in any other society Is important as for me as well as for the society in general.

One of my latest project together with Niko Tsetsxladze, Archil Turmanidze and Eto Gabashvili which was called “Sak[ART]verlo” (GEORGIA in georgian) was basically aimed to work with regional artists and create group exhibitions in  several cities (Kutaisi, Ozurgeti, Poti, Batumi, - Tbilisi) and what I found out that people are totally different in every single region, for example in  Kutaisi, some artist had forgot about being artists and had no motivation of any creative process except working on a regular job. Most of them stated that would like to cooperate in future; you know FUTURE seems wonderful for many . On the other hand in Ozurgeti and Poti an almost totally destroyed city especially after the war, artist of all ages some who have never heard of performance or video installations created wonderful works which has aroused great interest towards them.
For this moment I would call it:  Space, a Sense, People; that motivate me to work here, but I have no boundaries in this aspect as every single part of the world is interesting and I’m sure that I’ll work/live in different edges of the planet in a specific time.
And what motivates you to work in the UK? How was your Whiskey day btw, had a lot?

Interesting, you are all into it from the morning, seems your love to Whisky is very strong. One of my friends invited to the Strip Club tonight.
Definitely lots of drinking will take place. Not quite up to drinking, I’d rather prefer speaking with dancers who seem quite interesting as a phenomenon for me. As an Observation of their lifes.
Will be glad to share more tomorrow.
Have a good Whisky Sunday. Cheers, Luka

You seem to have got on with your Sunday already. Let me know how fruitful it has been tomorrow. And would also love to hear from you what motivates you to make art at the moment in Georgia? Andro

Maybe its you who never stops thinking Luka, I am a little bit brain dead now after staying up like you most of the night. It is a nice sunny morning here in Berwick-upon-Tweed too. But I decided to be lazy, will drink some whiskey…. but do tell me your intentions for this Sunday, whats it gonna be like?
Andro

Seems we both had a long and interesting night Yesterday,
Hope we won’t feel like total Lunatics Here.. Luka

I’m glad to say hello to Imagine Art After participants, Breda Beban, to Andro Semeiko live on the net, with whom we had a chance to meet several times in Georgia. After a long yesterday’s nights creative process of a “thought” Sunday 4pm seems like a wonderful morning here in Georgia. I call this process a “thought” as for me when a person is half asleep but never stops active thinking about probably all the things, interests, imaginations, which are all around him.

How are you Andro? How is you Sunday?

Hi, I am at the moment in Berwick-upon-Tweed, on English-Scottish boarder, doing a residency at Berwick Museum and Gymnasium Gallery. I will be having my solo show here in April next year. Its a very beautiful place, I can see the sea from my window, and its very quiet in comparison to London. The beaches are nice and I even went for a swim with the curator of the gallery. See us struggling with the waves. I am also posting a pic of the museum where is my studio on the 2rd floor and a pic of a nearby island with a castle.

I have been painting and sculpting all night last night, I have no time limits and schedules here, but I do feel like a lunatic as a result now. I think I need couple of whiskeys by a fireplace tonight to get back in shape…

What have you been up to Luka?

Welcome to imagine art after! Luka, Andro, where are you now? What are you up to?