Today I felt exhausted. Therefore, I decided to focus on my charka and do some meditation.  I always feel better after that.

Chakras are energy points or knots of the body. If one of the chakras is imbalanced it will affect the physical and mental health. A meditation can help to solve this.

But I have that feeling that spirituality and something like chakras are increasingly becoming a short-lived fad. People are wearing spiritual symbols like the “Om- Sign” or looking like they are monks without being interested in the true meaning of these things and practices. Especially young urban hipsters seem to follow the fashion aspect of spirituality. It is a shame that only the personal style counts and not pure joy and happiness of the mind.

I hope you visit my exhibition in Salzburg. However I must confess that being a mother of three children other matters have been on my mind lately. I feel that being an artist does not enable me to directly tackle the important issues of our time. I often feel that I am doing too little to resolve things that I feel need to be faced NOW. Environmental issues, poverty, scarcity of resources, nutrition and sports: these are the things I am concerned with daily. Creating art is an indirect way of dealing with these thoughts.

Yesterday I chatted with my sister. She had a baby girl in December and now her life revolves around the new challenges she is facing with the baby and setting up her life outside Vienna on a farm. We also talked about her healthy lifestyle with organic farming and living in and around nature.

In the last days I reopened my Facebook account. I had closed it because I was disillusioned by the NSA affair and thought that I would no longer share my thoughts on the internet. But in the last months many of my friends knew things about each other and communicated with each other and when I saw them and saw the photos they posted I felt left out. So when an issue in my children’s school environment needed to be communicated I got back to social media and can now reconnect to all my friends around the world.

I also installed a Feed Reader on my phone and therefore get to check blogs regularly. I mainly check ones about people who have found their sense in life, or who write about fitness, nutrition, organic farming, juicing, organizing a home and children, only little about art, design or interior design.

My interests have shifted away from art and design lately. I am not sure if I have to find a new profession or how I will deal with this change.

I was preparing the everyday afternoon snack while I was listening to a discussion on the radio. The topic was the future of the so called “Generation Y”. This is the group of young people, which are born between the late 1980s and early 2000s. They seems to refuse growing up, and the so called Peter Pan syndrome is widely spread.

In the discussion, young people were interviewed  about their perspectives on life. I had the feeling they were trying to stay positive. However, you could feel the uncertainty about the future in each of their sentences. It seems like belonging to the “Generation Y” as before belonging to the “Generation X” is a heavy burden to carry. The negative connotation of these terms seems to make people unsure about their being. cheap nike free run sale

I finished the snack preparations and started to set up the table while I was thinking, parajumpers outlet “but why is it so bad when young people don’t want to be like their grandparents as adults? What’s so bad if you prefer going for a ‘Sunday afternoon Tea party’  dressed up like a sailor with a blue and white striped shirt?” I think a life with creativity in it is more worth than waking up everyday and doing the same boring thing till you die. cheap isabel marant shoes

Probably the world is not ready to accept the new grown ups and it seems to produce a very pessimistic mood among them. Therefore, I suppose, a more positive self- image of the “Generation Y” could be invented. nike air max 90 sale

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Group Exhibition with Wulf Treu, Edward Crowell II, Nina Levett, Margherita Marzotto, Kris Kind, Jona Cerwinske, Heidi Popovic

RUDOLF BUDJA GALERIE Salzburg, Wiener Philharmoniker Gasse 3, 5020 Salzburg

Opening: Saturday, 12. April 2014, 14:30

Festival Opening Hours: 10:00 – 19:00