by Ivana Filip | lis 11, 2021 | Art, Compassion, Creativity, Everyday, Home, Inspiration, Motivation, Stamina
“Cause people often talk about being scared of change But for me I’m more afraid of things staying the same Cause the game is never won by standing in any one place for too long” In these words, musician and artist Nick Cave exposes the wisdom of change...
by Ivana Filip | ruj 6, 2021 | Art Entrepreneurship, Everyday, Home, Motivation, Stamina
“Art history is the history of money and art.” – Peter William Brown I haven’t reached yet 100 rejections this year but I got a few unscheduled positive surprises as they seem to break my poor record of pity and misery. Oh, there is some hope for the poor...
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 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...