A necklace that I gave away.....Ogrlica koju sam poklonila....

Mostar city. There is always something new to discover in this city. Some area, neighbourhood or a view that I haven't found out about yet. While I'm making those discoveries, I like to carry a book with me because, if you ask me, it is always a good time for reading. Today I would like to recommend to you a novel by Thomas Mann. Its original title (in German ) is Der Erwählte. If I'm correct (or better to say, if wikipedia is correct) in English it is translated as The Holy Sinner. It is a really fascinating novel. Its postmodernist irony and intertextuality mixes suprisingly well with its spiritual theme.

Grad Mostar. Tu se uvijek može otkriti nešto novo. Neko područje, susjedstvo ili pogled koji još nisam otkrila. Dok se bavim otkrivanjem, volim ponijeti s sobom neku knjigu, zato jer ako mene pitate, uvijek je dobro vrijeme za čitanje. Danas bih vam preporučila doista zanimljiv roman Izabranik Thomasa Manna. Iznenađujuće je koliko se dobro njegova postmodernistička ironija i intelektualnost slaže s duhovnom temom. Uživala sam čitajući ga i to je najbolja preporuka koju mogu dati. Svakako imajte na umu ovaj roman preveden kao Izabranik ( u orginalu je Der Erwählte.) 

Necklace/ogrlica: my creation, moja kreacija
pants/hlače: borrowed from husband, posuđene od muža
shoes/cipele: Peko
rest/ostalo: no name, nije markirano

DIY necklace/ ogrlica moj ručni rad

 Have you read anything by Thomas Mann? If you answer is yes....What novels by Thomas Mann have you read so far? I only read one of his novels, the infamous Death in Venice but I surely plan to read more of his works.

Jeste li  čitali Thomasa Manna i ako jeste, što ste  od njega čitali? Začudo, ja sam dosada pročitala samo Smrt u Veneciji, ali uskoro se bacam i na druga djela.  

 I immenesly enjoyed reading it and that is the best book recommendation I can give. I really don't have to say anything about the author, he is quite famous, isn't he? Sometimes I think it is actually not a good thing for a writer to achieve that status of a legend, because it makes people read them in a different way....When something, any art piece really,  is proclaimed to be a masterfiece, we often stop reacting on it on an intimate level. On some level,  we're so anxious to concur to society options that we don't reallly open our heart to art anymore. I sometimes wonder whether some isolated tribe member from Amazona would not better be able to comprehend Mona Lisa than your average person who has been bombared by the images of Mona Lisa so often it had became a sort of background noise, something akin to brand logo, something we take for granted. The power of brands lies precisely on our human weakness to take things for granted and believe we know something if we can name it. This weakness of ours allows brands to influence our subconsciousness. This human need to know things by naming them is not always a bag thing, this world is a complex place and our brain need shortcuts to keep us from going mad, but it is exactly this creation of mental shortcuts that is catastrofic for understanding of art.

O piscu ne moram ništa posebno reći, svi znaju za njega, zar ne? Mislim da je za pisce nekada i nedostatak kada dostignu taj status legende jer ih onda ljudi ne čitaju na isti način. Kad nešto, bilo kakvo umjetničko djelo, doživi status remek djela , često ih prestajemo doživljavati na intimni način. Na nekoj razini, toliko smo u potrebi da se složimo s mišljenjem društva da ne otvaramo svoje srce umjetnosti. Ponekad se pitam ne bi li neki izolirani član Amazonskoga plemena mogao bolje razumjeti Mona Lisu nego prosječna osoba koja je toliko bombardirana slikama Mona Lise da ona postaje buka u pozadini,  nešto kao znakovi marki, nešto za što podrazumijevamo. Na našoj ljudskoj slabosti pretpostavljanja da nešto znamo ako možemo povezati sliku s nekom riječju u našim glavama počiva snaga marki i njihov snažan utjecaj na našu podsvijest. Nije to uvijek loše, svijet je složeno mjesto i naš mozak treba prečice da ne bismo poludjeli, ali upravo je to stvaranje mentalnih prečaca katastrofalno za shvaćanje umjetnost. 

DIY necklace

We are instructed to respect the artistic achievements of human kind. However, how can you truly respect them if you have never questioned them? How can we respect something that we have never really thought about? If we have never formed our own opinion about something, just copied pasted that of the society, than how can we possibly talk about respecting something? It is better to honestly admit to not understanding something. I think the worst we can do to any art work is to take it for granted. The fact is that you might have seen Mona Lisa a thousand times but you have never REALLY seen it....and isn't that just the saddest thing? This doesn't have to mean that you have to be into painting, art or anything of the sort. What I'm trying to say is that the ability to think is something that needs to be developed. It seems to me that too often we're too busy surviving and adopting ourselves to this chaotic life than we forgot how important is to think with our own head.

Uče nas da poštujemo umjetničke dosege ljudskog društva. Međutim, kako ih možemo doista poštovati ako nismo nikada doista razmislili o njima? Kako možemo poštovati nešto o čemu nismo doista promišljali? Ukoliko nikada nismo oblikovali svoje mišljenje o nečemu, nego samo kopirali mišljenje društva, kako možemo doista poštovati nešto? Bolje je jednostavno priznati da nešto ne razumijemo. Mislim da je najgore što možemo učiniti nekom umjetničkog djelu je uzeti ga za gotovo. Činjenica je da ste možda vidjeli Mona Lisu tisuću puta, ali je niste nikada DOISTA vidjeli...i zar to nije nešto najtužnije? Ne mora vas uopće zanimati slikarstvo, umjetnost ili išta slično....Što pokušavam reći je da se sposobnost mišljenja mora razvijati.  Čini mi se da smo prečesto previše zauzeti preživljavanjem i prilagođavanjem kaotičnom životu da često zaboravljamo kako je važno misliti svojom glavom. 

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necklace/ogrlica: my creation, moja kreacija

pants/hlače: borrowed from husband, posuđene od muža

shoes/cipele: Peko

rest/ostalo: no name, nije markirano

necklace/ogrlica: my creation, moja kreacija

pants/hlače: borrowed from husband, posuđene od muža

shoes/cipele: Peko

rest/ostalo: no name, nije markirano