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.