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26- Drawing the Soul
The Soul lies above the Mind, Heart, Body, and Psyche in every garden I draw. And yet, despite its prominence, it often remains empty or marked only by a few sparse twigs like this one below. Today’s exploration focuses on the Soul, its sparse vegetation, and its emptiness. Can we find meaning in what is…
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25- Captive Tree
Just an image. Credits: Arena for a Tree by Klaus Littmann for Enea Gardens, Rappwerswil-Jona, Switzerland. Photo by Christophe Meili. This Japanese elm escapes from the circular enclosure designed by German artist Klaus Littmann by growing upwards. It reminds me that my daily garden drawings are often flat and two-dimensional whereas they too could shoot…
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24- Drawing Body
I find the Body garden section easier to describe than the Heart or Psyche sections we recently explored. Its physical nature makes it quantifiable and cause-and-effect relationships between external actions and internal states should be easy to identify and measure, right? It is with this in mind that I focused today’s drawing almost exclusively on…
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23- Urban Garden
Just an image. Credits: Mike Tauber, appeared in the Financial Times, November 2024 I like the contrast between the parallels and contrasts in this image of the city and the park: verticality in both but also man-made rectangular structures vs. organic free flowing tree stems and branches. And of course, the sinuous paths of the…
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22- Drawing the Mind
My grandfather asked me once when I was a young boy what I was doing sitting still in his living room. I told him I was thinking. His reaction was: “I could never do that, thinking without doing anything else”. He was a very driven person, always active and his comment stuck with me ever…
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21- Summits Day Start
Just an image. From the train in Koppingen, Canton Bern in Switzerland – November 2024 From left to right: the Wetterhorn, Lauteraarhorn, Schreckhorn, Finsteraarhorn and the better known Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau.
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20- Drawing Heart
The heart section of the garden is a bit of a challenge for me. I find the emotions and activities here to be more personal and intimate than the ones in the body or mind sections for example. Maybe that is also why it took me almost two months to document this November 2024 drawing…
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18- Drawing Psyche
A few days ago, I started my daily garden by drawing in its lower right the PSYCHE corner. And I took notes about the thoughts and about the emotions I felt while drawing, not sure if they are inspiring the drawing or if it is the drawing that summons them. This image lets you drag…
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