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disaffected. posted : 12/01/08 at 02:01pm pst listening to:einstürzende neubauten - bakterien (für eure seele)
been wondering where i've been?



i've been just here, trapped in time. i don't even really have a moment to write just now, there are plenty of things waiting, a girl with a blurred face wrapped in a raspberry coat sits on a bed and misses a foot i've been overpainting an endless amount of times for lack of satisfying results. wonky reference lines suggest a coffeehouse in desperate need of costumers who's passionate chattering to come still echoes on the tiled art nouveau walls, their impending presence lingers in the rough sketchbook texture of the cushions. adjourned duties are neglected as books pile up to shaky towers. a paper dwelling upon the reciprocity of actor and character yawns a blank white. it was due in august. i get more time. it's due til christmas. i'll get more time. it's stretchable like a rubber strap until i rip at the seams, submerged by my own inadequacy.

i'm just taking the few minutes right now to update my online existence, because my neighbour just interrupted my work flow by ringing the doorbell to tell me she doesn't like my music. yes i know that it might not be everyones cup of tea, but it's early evening, the volume's low and the basses are turned down, not one of my flatmates is bothered by the irregular thuds escaping my room and i have to admit they're not too hot on that type of sound either. i guess you can't expect to live in an ample appartement as students and not bear the restrictions of middleclass mediocrity.
this irrelevant incident irritates me ever so slightly and i don't feel like going back to my paints and brushes immediately.
so here i am.



what has happened in the last days? nothing you could report, watching from the outside. inner lacerations, anticipating bursting, but never, never culminating. perpetual motion that equals a deadlock. i'm tired, i'm wide-awake, i don't remember. i get fits of emotional overload, and then switch to cold-blooded detatchment. i feel like i'm overstrained, yet doing nothing. full to the brim and empty as wire. racing like a madwoman on a treadmill with the imbecile belief that i might arrive somewhere.

yet.
it's calm in here.



paint. walk. dream. write. cough. sing. sigh. kiss. eat. struggle. sleep.

the uniformity of constant ambivalence.
i'm unsure wether there is too much time ahead or not enough, slipping through my fingers as i turn around too look back on it. i curse my youth prematurely for the repetitions to come while on the other hand it still might be over before it's even begun.

but you'd much rather see some tits than hear me rant about how i'd like to be an old lady, surrounded by cats, maybe some storybook grandchildren cut out of catalogues (for i couldn't possibly have anything to do with their conception), pouring out a cup of tea to her placid self.

so here you go.



(c) arcado (and me. my flesh and postproduction in these)


i 'm smitten by my not-so-new flatmate. we share a home, a school, some ideas, quite a few beliefs, diverse concepts. i read short stories aloud to her while she bakes cakes. we study phenomenology. we kiss and make out. i cook dinner. she sews the holes in my gloves. we make plans to redecorate the bath. i say it would be nice to make some music. she says it would be good to make a play. i show her sketches, she tells me her ideas. we discuss. we rant. we thrive. we yearn. we feed on ice cream. we drive to the sea.

in this non-existent alienation, we'd be on a similar degree of foreignness.

this is the sea.

















we drove to that tower because it's on the sleeve of this album.



we are nerdy like that.
we don't need reasons.
it's pretty good.

i'm going back to this rare moment of reclusion and to resuming my tasks.
take care and don't miss me too much - i'll dish out another round of pictures soon enough.

Viewing 34 comments on this page

Anya
12/01/08 02:29pm pst

wunderschöne bilder!

Edda
12/01/08 02:45pm pst

dankesehr. :)

Anja
12/01/08 02:39pm pst

i look forward to your blogs because you always post beautiful photos and prose.

Edda
12/01/08 02:41pm pst

oh dear! that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :)

SonnyDisco
12/01/08 05:54pm pst

Marvelous photos!

Edda
12/01/08 06:11pm pst

:-*

vigorismoney
12/01/08 08:03pm pst

really you dont know ???
come on how old are you??
have you ever seen the movie
TEEN WOLF?? well thats who iam
i like your art

Edda
12/01/08 08:17pm pst

glad you do! :)

vigorismoney
12/01/08 08:25pm pst

well it was a movie that
came out in the 80s
you should check it out its
funny, and dont worry im not hating
on you trust me youd know if i was
=) so you have like one of the cute
ass accents??

Josepha
12/02/08 08:44am pst

Even if you just write a journal entry it sounds like literature and your new pictures are stunning. You are full of creativity... that's so lovely.

Edda
12/02/08 09:00am pst

i like that you perceive it that way, since rom the inside, it doesn't feel that way at all.
you're too kind. :)

<3

jmdarling
12/02/08 10:35am pst

you're exquisite in these photos. i'd really love to shoot you one day.

Edda
12/02/08 12:10pm pst

you ought to get your ass over to europe, dear! :)

Corbineatsfaces
12/02/08 02:15pm pst

not only are you drop dead gorgeous your writing is beautiful. shesh...

Edda
12/02/08 06:14pm pst

aww. that warms my deep-frozen heart (it's winter, hence the frost). :)

Siobhan
12/02/08 11:03pm pst

You are such a dream!

Edda
12/03/08 07:12am pst

as are you, mademoiselle. :)

Ellie
12/02/08 11:23pm pst

love

Edda
12/03/08 07:10am pst

right back at you. <3

Viola
12/05/08 08:12am pst

I miss you way too much, liebling.

See, it was already frustrating to live on either side of the world but now it is even more so, now that I have met you and fallen in total lust with you!

Edda
12/05/08 08:44am pst

aww. aww. it was way too short, i miss you too.
see, we really have to meet again, be it in europe or down under..

(sorry i'm taking a while to reply to your message, you know, trapped in time, and all that)

Viola
12/05/08 06:52pm pst

( that's alright, I totally understand temporal displacement)

Idolhands
12/05/08 12:39pm pst

The first picture in the entry is AMAZING!!! The colors are so vivid.

Edda
12/05/08 01:05pm pst

thanks. i'm pretty content with my editing, too. :)

lifegrd31
12/05/08 07:49pm pst

I live on the beach and yet I haven't been in so long. I really want to go now. Thanks for the myspace comment the other day. I am getting ready to unleash another round of nerd-dom in our art thread. Be prepared. I'm thinking awesome landscape painting which is kind of an oxymoron.

Edda
12/05/08 11:25pm pst

shit, i think we can rock landscape painting, honestly.

Magdalene
12/12/08 08:35pm pst

I am in love with you.

Edda
12/13/08 02:15am pst

well come and make out with me, then! =)

Ireland
12/13/08 05:07pm pst

Alas! To be young, perfect, and European! You are seriously living THE life, lady. :)

Edda
12/13/08 05:22pm pst

i seriously have my doubts about the second attribute.. ;)

Gemma
12/15/08 07:22pm pst

aww wow such gorgeous photos! Beautiful!!

And lol glad I'm not the only one who found it amusing ^^" 

specialforces
12/30/08 08:53am pst

You are georgeous and that top pic here is so good!!!

helica
01/12/09 05:59am pst

you have returned.

It's wonderful that you have flat mate that you get on with. life is hell when you can't relate to someone you have to share close quarters with.

The photos are beautiful as always x

Edda
01/12/09 06:08am pst

nah, not really. i'm more like on and off at the moment because my computer's down and semester's ending and the world is crushing in on me. but i'll be back, i promise. i have tons of photos piling up here...!

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