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...
by Ivana Filip | svi 3, 2021 | Art Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Home, Performance
“Don’t give up. It’s really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says.” – Judy Chicago Some time ago in a conversation with my colleague and an artist, he expressed his opinion that one can title...
by Ivana Filip | tra 26, 2021 | Creativity, Everyday, Home, Photography, Stamina, Storytelling
“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.” – Doris Lessing It has been another week full of life, the good, the bad, the weird. But the Monday comes, and I ask – can you tell me what to do today? It is yet another day,...