Morning breathes down my neck again. Unbidden as always. Closed blinds shut out the sight of nothing. Concrete. Tarmac. Bricks. Humans suck the soul out of their surroundings – leaving nothing even for themselves in their wake. And then complain […]
In order to believe in a future that is better than the present, you must either be an idiot, a lunatic – or the kind of genius who is capable of imagining things that will never come to be, and […]
Autumn. Alternating drizzle and biting cold sun. Empty page waiting to be filled. Loose words skip-jump in my head, refusing to band together and create the dreaded sentences. There’s so much responsibility in a sentence. So many consequences to be […]
Carefully drawn lines delineating the exact form I envisioned. It looks exactly like I wanted it to – from mind to paper. However… What is missing? Everything is so perfectly detailed. Nothing is missing from the motive. But somehow it […]
All those smart sentences that pop into one’s head every now and then. The ones that just explain things. Just so. If only it was possible to write a book consisting of nothing but those. But they don’t string together […]
I go through phases where I, incensed with a new idea I want to put into writing, suddenly feel defused as soon as I look at the screen. “What does this even matter,” a voice will tell me, “nobody cares […]
I found myself in a splendid moment and thought that I should stay in it, and get the most out of it. The thought alone stole my presence and so I lost it. — Human beauty. The calmness that comes […]
This is a retrospective piece I wrote in 2018. I found it again in late 2020 as I searched through my archives of unpublished fragments, preparing to compile a new poetry collection. I figured I might as well show it […]
A worldwide network – a pulsing nerve-cell transmitting its message to anybody, anywhere, anytime. A channel that automatically, intuitively knows how and where to transmit data – no matter who requested it and where they are, as long as they […]
1. Does the cell think of the purpose of its existence as it wriggles its way around between its many brethren? Does it ever consider how small and fragile it is, or how and why it exists? No. It just […]
I carry bricks and tile with me in my pockets whenever I go to the city. At least it seems so. Every time I return to my hometown I find an old house torn down – every time I go […]
You know them, those pesky two-legged creatures who constantly bother you when you try to work and just won’t respect your privacy. When you plan a trip to finally be alone with yourself in nature, they might even suddenly decide […]
A debate has been raging lately about identity in art. Can an artist portray someone from whose ethnic group / gender one doesn’t belong? Is is permissible to even do that? Doesn’t it further stereotypes? Doesn’t it further bias? Isn’t […]
SInce I wrote my first line of code I have been torn between writing and programming. Torn between the code and the fiction. Felt that if I spent more time on one, the other would suffer. Desperately tried to balance […]
I am frequently asked to sign my paintings. I don’t want to. It’s not that I can’t understand that the person who gets the painting would want it signed – I mean, it is more convenient for them. But it […]
I am basically not as imaginative as people might think when reading my fiction. I do not “invent” fiction – I only fictionalize reality. I think the biggest barrier I had to overcome when I started writing prose fiction rather […]
Art is a creation that is based on human memory, which is, as you already know, imperfect and highly selective. Why claim that artists “lie”? They can’t wring more out of themselves than what they are given to work with. […]
Art is merely a form of communication. Each form of art a different form of communication. But still just forms of communication. And it is the thing communicated that matters; not really the way in which it is being communicated. […]