But before I continue I'll show you what I got:
I was actually expecting the parcel to come yesterday. But it didn't. Just a quarter ago the door bell rang and the delivery guy handed it out to me. Great - Thank you, Reinhard! I am a little excited.
I decide where to make my cuts. Which is not easy at all because I doesn't want to hurt anything. Neither the outside nor the inside. After fiddling around a bit I finally manage to open the treasure-box!
There it is: the rolled up art peace.
Now I stopp and don't want to touch it. For it says: "roll it out carefully". I won't disobey. Also I see some little papers which I pull out. Of course, there must be a personal note from the artist. I will leave to read it later on. This is so good. I feel that it is not just something I bought. I want to make it special and I do want to celebrate my first act of trade through the Steemit Block chain. We agreed on me paying him with $SBD.
Before we had chatted about the conditions, if I wanted to buy the picture including the symbol and characters or if I wanted to buy it without and what size it should be and if it should be mounted on a wooden frame or printed as a reproduction. I choose the printing. "Giclée print on paper" tells me the artist. Well, I don't know anything about it, but it sounds lovely. It became "Hahnemühle German Etching" paper.
All right, let's go. What else can I find in the package?
A certificate of authenticity.
I've never held anything like this in my hands before. I only know it from movies. Now I feel like a lady. I know, these are all really romantic performances. But I do like it now and then, the feeling of doing something luxurious. It gives a welcome change to my otherwise meagre and ascetic life: -)
For some reason the process reminds me of my time in Oldenburg, in my mid-twenties. Even the air is changing and I feel as time is shrinking and I conjure up a likeness to the present moment in the things of life enjoyed at that time. At the time, I had a lot to do with people who were artists. Not all of them were "proven" artists, but you know what I mean. A few of the memorabilia are lying in cozy old smelling boxes in my wardrobe. Sometimes I unpack them and breathe in the scent of the past.
SMACK!
E M B R A C I N G - T H E - B E A S T
Now the colors!!! They really are striking. Much more intense I would have expected. The picture is just a blast of colors!
This is what Reinhard says about it:
"By embracing the monster, the personality becomes complete, destructive forces are turned to passion and the inner beast no longer poses a threat."
That is why I wanted it: To remind myself and others (who will visit and see the picture) that what is dark and often unwelcome in ourselves is just as a part of humans as it's opposite. Both, good AND bad, need to be integrated in what we call "self".
Now: I have to find an appropriate frame for my first ever purchased peace of art directly from the artist himself! That has to be done also carefully, I wish I would have asked him to mount it on a frame and we should have risen the price. LOL. It is again my impatience because I do really want to put my beasty woman on the wall.
What do you think? Isn't this an act of matter? We stepped outside the bits and bytes and made something real. I now can touch and smell what was former just pixels on the computer screen.
Deine Freude ist total ansteckend (grins) und es freut mich natürlich sehr, dass Du so begeistert bist! Unglaublich, hätte nie gedacht, dass Du sogar einen extra Post daraus machst!
Ich bin sicher Du wirst den richtigen Rahmen finden. Wichtig ist nur, dass man Dir im Rahmengeschäft keinen Knick rein macht und die Oberfläche nicht verkratzt.
Da man normalerweise eine Glasscheibe vor das Bild setzt, wäre der Versand gerahmt extrem aufwändig gewesen. Ich hatte auch überlegt, das Blatt flach in einer Mappe zu schicken, aber so erschien es mir sicherer.
Du solltest es jetzt am besten zwischen zwei Kartons legen, damit sich das Papier entspannt und es dann auch so zum Rahmen bringen. Es sei denn natürlich, Du besorgst Dir den Rahmen und machst das selbst.
Find ich ja lustig, dass Du eines meiner Idole zum beschweren des Blattes einspannst ;-)
Wünsche Dir noch viel Freude mit Deinem neuen Bild!
:-))) Du hast M.C. Escher erkannt? Dabei war nur ein Zipfelchen des Buches zu sehen. Hihi. Schön.
Der Grund für den Post war das damit verbundene Ritual. Es wäre irgendwie zu schnell vorbei gewesen, es einfach nur auszupacken und zum Plätten abzulegen. Und so habe ich es dann auch gleich mit einem Posting verbunden so dass andere auch etwas davon haben.
Ja, ich werde im Geschäft darauf achten, danke noch einmal für den Hinweis.
Sei herzlich gegrüßt!
Haha... steht auch auf dem Buchrücken. Auf dem Kopf zwar, aber ich bin auf diesen ja nur gelegentlich gefallen ;-)
Echt schön, wenn sich jemand so freuen kann!
Ganz liebe Grüße auch nach Hamburg :-)
I'm so impressed that you were actually able to buy a piece of art using SBD. How exciting!
And it's such a unique piece as well. I love it. I might have to look into this myself and perhaps buy the wife a gift so that she understands that we can actually use this currency in real life.
Well done!
Thanks, totally so. That is also why I produced all the fuzz!
Indeed it is a charming idea to buy your wife an art peace through the platform. If we people want to be it like that, it will be like that ;-)
WALK THE TALK
:)
Da hast du deine Aufregung und Vorfreude wirklich sehr mitreißend beschrieben, ich schmunzle immer noch!
Das Bild ist ganz großartig! Werde mich auch mal bei Reinhard umschauen, danke für die Anregung.
Danke dir!
Schön, dass auch Deutsche mitlesen und ich etwas Anlass für Heiterkeit gebe. Ich bin gespannt, ob du Reinhards Kunst magst.
Looks like she's sitting on the Sun. During a storm. (Looks windy!)
Very handsome painting!
Maybe a frame with gold streaks would suit it. Anything with too different a color will constrict it I think, literally 'frame' it.
Enjoy your purchase!
Thanks, Alex. Yeah, the wind also gives credit to the theme itself. I like the composition a lot. Searching for a frame is going to be difficult, I guess. I must take it to the shop and see how they will help me there.
Reinhard's work is excellent!! He is among my favorites in here! :)
Enjoy your new painting, the striking colors are amazing! You sounded like an impatient child, waiting to open their christmas present, but I can relate to that :P
Maybe this is going to boost up his art dealing even more:) That would be just fantastic. We can support each other through many actions and what people come up here with ideas is quite fascinating. I never would have thought that in advance. One should feel and experience the steemit blockchain experience to know what the inside people talk about.
Yes, once in a while it feels awesome to act childish, so I like that you relate to it :)
Yes! It was a great promotion for his work. A lot of artists have been using steemit as a market for their work and it's absolutely amazing! I believe it is a wonderful place for them (get more exposure) and us too (we discover brilliance we'd probably never knew it existed and using blockchain in real-life transactions is fascinating, isn't it?)
oh, totally so.
Actually I think as an average person I longed for this brilliance in a way which hurt. That does not mean I am not happy with people near me but as I am not having the means to travel in length and depth and really get in touch with people from other cultures and professions who happen not to be near me, this platform is simply the best thing that can happen to me.
You know, what I actually think? One should plan for a long journey instead of doing short trips where one never can enter a culture truly or meet other humans to get a grip on them. In an odd way we modern people prison ourselves in all inclusive holiday trips.
I hope I'm not making a cardinal mistake right now, and you love all-inclusive holidays.
Guess, you know what I am up to.
I don't like all-inclusive holidays, they are "chewed food" programmed to be fed again and again to every "customer". I prefer visiting a place by myself and figure out what I want to see and have the freedom to explore and discover or even better, visit a friend in a far away place and have them as a "tour guide".
Our brains need this kind of "emancipation" especially during holiday time!
Was für ein tolles Bild! und man hat deine freude über den kauf sehr gespürt beim lesen. schön auch dass du ihm so etwas zurück geben konntest, reinhard ist ein wahnsinns guter künstler :)
Vielen herzlichen Dank an dich.
Meine Freude über diesen Kauf ist für mich ein Ausdruck puren Materialismus. Da ich mir nicht viel und nicht oft etwas kaufe, sind solche Ereignisse von besonderer Bedeutung. Am liebsten würde ich alles auf diese Weise erwerben. Mit Ritual, Fürsorge und der Absicht, dass die Materie lange am Leben bleibt :)
Ich kaufe mir auch seeeehr selten etwas, und wenn dann ist es schon etwas sehr besonderes da versteh ich dich auf jeden Fall. Kunst würde ich mir sehr gerne kaufen, aber dafür fehlt mir im Moment das Einkommen :D ... bei mir sind es meistens Schallplatten über die ich mich dann ganz besonders freue und etwas stolz bin meinen besitz erweitern zu können :)
You mad a good choice giving Reinhard's work a place in your home. Enjoy! =)
I will:-) thank you.
Excellent art @erh.germany.
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