Henar´s Blog

This is a very interesting creation by Yoko Ono, the all white chess, a paradox really... The players are supposed to move the different pieces without thinking about a strategy, until they don´t really know which pieces are their own, and which are their opponents´. There´s no winner, and no loser.

Interesting way to lose conscience and just concentrate on "feelings", communication, experimentation and intuition.

Many of her art pieces are instructions for performances, some performed by the artist and others can only be performed by the audience, believing like Marcel Duchamp that the work of art is only partly created by the artist and is completed by the spectator.

Take a look at these creative designs by David Olschewski:






I love fun and creative design like this... brings a smile to my face!
More in his web page

Nils Nova's installations are designed to subvert our perception of time and our assumptions about space.

In his projetcs he mixes techniques like ink-jet prints on blueback-paper pasted on the wall, paintings on boards, photography, everyday objects or people.

I find his work fascinating... I´ve always been interested in works on the way we perceive the reality around us, and I especially like the way the artist shows this in his installations. They appear to be so clean and simple... and leave us thinking about so many complex ideas...
Lovely work! Here are some examples from his web site:

I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin


It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.
Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006


To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce


It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.
Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 2006


The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock

The International Expo "Water and Sustainable Development", takes place in Zaragoza until the 14th september.
There´s lots of events, shows, concerts and exhibitions going on, and it looks really fun. I plan to visit hopefully this summer. Until then, I leave you a selection of images from some of the pavilions. Hope you like them!

My favourite is the Bridge over the River Ebro, designed by the Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize.... beautiful, isn´t it?