'You Don’t Need Four Walls...'

First of all, sorry for a long silence here in the Kingdom of Tangled In Triangles.

What an accurate name for a blog I came up after all – don’t you think so?

I still feel tangled like hell. If some knots are finally untangled, the new ones appear and the story starts again…

I started a new blog post some days ago but I managed to delete it somehow. Bless my wonderful computer literacy!

The Runaway by Gorjuss - I was reminded once more about this artist
by my workmate wonderful Italian girl Debbie

To be honest, so many strange things are happening or… are just surrounding me that sometimes I just stop to analyse things. And, you know what, you may laugh, but, I don’t even know why, I got to realize several times that the things work out and happen the way they seem to be supposed happening only when I follow some voice inside me.

You might call it selfishness but to be honest, I just stopped listening to majority of people as otherwise I would just have not only to tear myself apart but to tear myself into dozens of smallest pieces and then scatter them completely different directions.

I wish I would have guts to write you more often but I will write you about what stuck in my memory most.

One day, before going to some room viewings I left the house earlier and for one more time went to Tate Modern. And, exactly on that day the new exhibition was opened. Check it out and come have a look if you happen to be in London! The artists name is Meschac Gaba and what stuck me the most was his quote on the front wall of the exhibition which said: 

YOU DON’T NEED FOUR WALLS TO DEFINE YOUR PLACE, TO DECIDE WHO YOU ARE.’

I don’t even know why but this quote just got me – you know when you hear or see something just in the right place in the right time?

I think that quote says a lot itself, doesn’t it?

One more great exhibition I got to see was this one! The Graphic Art of the Harry Potter Films by Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima!

HARRY POTTER!

To be honest, I had no clue, the film crew actually got the artists do such a thorough job! Seems a dream job, doesn't it?! 

Well.. At least now I know such great things are actually happening in this big big world and Harry Potter isn't the only one to be surrounded by magic!

And the fact that Harry was also living in Surrey (where I still am at the moment) made my day! 

Because I keep getting stressed out about all this uncertainty my life is just soaking with – from the trial period at work to my desperate wish to get out of the faraway house in the zone 6 (well, at least not a zone 10, imagine that!)  due to my obvious financial circumstances I am stuck in at the moment.

By the way, apparently quite a few people must be reading this little blog – thank you guys!

As I even got a comment below one of my posts!! What a surprise!

As I was telling about a strange phone call, the comment by someone called PaulB asked me to tell me more about that phone call!

To be honest, I don’t even know where to start naming all the strange calls and encounters here but the long story short – I was going to be paid to write creative film reviews but as I have to make a living somehow and this wouldn’t be enough, I eventually lost this opportunity only because I have to have a job. That’s the story.

Somehow I was going to complain about at least a billion things but somehow I can’t put myself together to do this. Maybe later when I get extremely fed up I will let all the disappointments out!

But today I think I found a perfect house with a room to rent and I seem to have quite a few friends – here in London or coming to visit me! I feel honoured!

So, there is no time to be looking back to the things that only stop us from moving forward!

There are so many things to be done that I hardly have any time left for them if I wouldn’t count the hours spent sleeping/working/commuting. Once, while all tired and fed up waiting for the train I started thinking that even hamsters seem to have a way more exciting life than most of the adults.

And because I am still young, naïve and optimistic I still believe that it is somehow possible not to become one of such hamsters, or, as one Lithuanian writer wrote, chinchillas.

Still broke and (still) believing in the beautiful dreams and beautiful today and tomorrow,

Gabriele 

(or, as I got named at work – Gabby san)

I was having some hysterical moment after the crazy day when I accidently appeared at work  two hours too early, lost my precious Oyster with the zones 1-6 travelcard and spent ages in tube while trying to get to the gallery (which sadly closed before we even got there. Photo by: Jenna)

(I don't remember if I shared that song with you already - found this song by Blue Hawaii ages ago because I liked... the album cover... maybe stupid but isn't the album cover really great?!)

P.S.: I know many people might be disappointed by my lack of organisation skills at the moment but I am doing my best to put myself together so I apologise for all the forgotten birthdays, unsent letters, overdue bills back in Preston, the illustrations and logos I haven't even started and millions of other things that I am embarrassed myself. 

P.S.2 Before I finally managed to upload this post literally billions of new things happened - starting new phone calls related to illustration work to eventually finding a lovely attic room to rent! Not to mention how I managed to lose my travel ticket - Oyster - and somehow get it back again!.. But about all this next time...