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Focus and wonderful things occur, the opposite is much pain

Rock climbing outsdie in perfect weather with Bjørn and Morten.  Challenging and requiring focus, flexibility and a relaxed mind.  If you move gracefully it’s not that difficult, if you tense up, you may be stuck or worse.  All of this applies to most things in life which makes it fascinating to me.  I really appreciate those guys taking the rookie along. I always dreamed of scaling a wall like the one we did.  I’d love to do more of it, get stronger mentally and physically and you walk away clear headed from the complete focus and concentration.  One secton was beautiful as Morten said, you climb up into the sun drenched wall and life is just perfect.

Continueing with winterizing the studio and collecting lots of materials for the life size sculpture of Line.  I’m going with the pose lieing down because after asking peoples reactions to the sketches, I agreed that the pose with her daydreaming lieing down communicated more of the theme I’m going for.   The standing one will be after completing this one.   I’m a fortunate guy, great model,  I have all the materials I need, food to eat and roof over my head.  What more could I ask for? I’m a lucky bastard!

Jenny from Boston came to visit, she got a taste of Bergen and Oslo. We watched Bjørn’s documentary that he shot in Iran. It’s called “forbidden futures”.  He’s got the right approach, get it done and don’t let anything stop you.   It’s a story of 3 people, a girl that ski’s and plays cello, a death metal guitarist, songwriter, video creator, and a painter.  There are some great scenes, my favorite is when the painter gets the death sentence and he is talking to the camera saying “this is real life, this is not a movie”.  He was in jail and eventually paid his way out with cash.   Any serious artist should see this. Today, more materials, the armature for the pose and lots of work with Line.  A great model, on time, pleasant, relaxed and a basic decent person. And she has beautiful curves, as I said, I’m a fortunate fella.