by Ivana Filip | lip 16, 2021 | Creative Exercise, Creativity, Everyday, Motivation, Stamina
There is intelligence when you are not afraid. – Bruce Lee I am not motivated to write right now though I love it and usually dedicate time to the writing. BUT I AM ENTHUSIASTIC! Sunday it is. Then, the weekend comes. I love waking up on Saturday morning...
by Ivana Filip | lip 1, 2021 | Creativity, Everyday, Home, Storytelling
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan For the past 8 months I have been intensively developing my first documentary, not short, neither long, but 42 minutes forever-long. It is immense work. I did it, due to the lack of...
by Ivana Filip | svi 25, 2021 | Animals, Cats, Compassion, Everyday, Nonhumans, Photography, Storytelling
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr. I wrote this short story / biographic note in 2016 for the final thesis while preparing my final exam at the art academy. And the story goes… I saw the opportunity to take my...
by Ivana Filip | svi 17, 2021 | Animals, Compassion, Eco, Nonhumans, Performance, Storytelling, Video, Works
I wrote “Olgica aka Why do you take it so personal?” short story in 2015 while studying fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie where I enjoyed my second studies and my second youth. I found myself lucky to get accepted to study there as I was, even in my 30ies, so...
by Ivana Filip | svi 10, 2021 | Cats, Compassion, Creativity, Eco, Everyday, Home, Nonhumans, Photography, Storytelling
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were...