For this week's seminar Sharone Lifschitz gave a talk on her practice considering the theme of memorials and monuments.
She spoke of her travels around Germany on the Trains, how she would meet new people talk to them and then record their conversations.
On her travels she made a list of rules for herself, some consisted of only being allowed to leave a station via train. Meaning she would sleep on trains, eat of trains and basically live on them.
It really challenged her to find such things as a night train or even a meal for that night.
I love travel, Love it, so hearing Sharone talk about her travels made me really excited and honestly jealous.
I wish I had the confidence, time and knowledge to travel a whole different country by train. Although I can't even think about it for too long because I get so scared.
She reminded us all that the journey is the destination, and I couldn't agree more. However, it is hard for me to apply this message to my own way of living.
My heart is so desperate to reach my goals that I can't help but dread every passing day that I don't enjoy.
Sharone talked about how she got to fall in love with Germany by the people, talking in whatever German she knew and recording it all.
Then later she took those conversations and turned them into posters that she could put up all for the public to enjoy.
This was her memorial for all these lovely conversations she had with every possible type of person out there. From factory workers to CEOs, she met the whole of Germany on the trains... and there is something so beautiful about that.
It feels like that is what life is supposed to feel like, meeting people and talking. It seems like something so small but now that I find myself so alone, I can't help but be so jealous.
Covid has kept me locked up, and it is effecting me now. Now that I have no-one to talk to, as like Sharone, I find people so fascinating. The stories they tell and the lives they've lived, I miss talking, especially to people that have lives long lives. However, in these times, those people are the ones you can't go near.
I really respect and enjoy Sharone's work in these memorials, people in themselves are art, even if it's just in a simple exchanging of works that can make someone smile or cry. People are pieces of art sent from nature itself, or God if you believe in it.
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