Category: Retrospectives
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Retrospective 2019-26
This is a look back at my reading and painting during the week, including some reflections. Reflections I made the following notes to myself this month: Life is self-creating in a dynamically alive universe. Generative organizing is autopoietic. Allopoietic operating principles are “poisonous” for living systems. Organizing between and beyond is about moving beyond the…
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Retrospective 2019-25
This is a look back at my reading and painting during the week. Reading This week I started reading Mae-Wan Ho’s The Rainbow and The Worm and Living Rainbow H2O. Mae-Wan Ho takes the reader on a fascinating voyage of discovery through the physics of organisms, which explains why water is so remarkably fit for…
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Retrospective 2019-24
This is a look back at my reading and painting during the week. Reading I finished reading Safeguarding Our Common Future by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic this week. Ingrid Leman Stefanovic argues that our environmental actions will change only when we see our world in a different way. Our basic beliefs and value systems frame the…
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Retrospective 2019-23
This is a look back at my reading and painting during the week. Reading This week I’ve read Energies (1964), How We Do Things (1974), Transformation (1974), Intimations (1975), Creative Thinking (1989), and Way To Be Free (2006) by John G. Bennett. John G. Bennett always returned to the idea that there are more inward…
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Retrospective 2019-22
This is a look back at my reading and painting during the week. Painting I enjoy painting trees and flowers, water and sky! It’s meditative. Reading I’ve read David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous this week. I’ve also read, or rather re-read, Elisabet Sahtouris’ EarthDance during week. I was reminded that what Elisabet Sahtouris…
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Retrospective 2019-21
This is a summary of my painting and reading this week. Painting I’ve continued my exploration of flowers, water and sky. Reading I’ve read Stephan Harding’s Animate Earth, which is a book I really like. I will come back with a summary and review of the book. (Here is a video where Stephan Harding presents…
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Retrospective 2019-20
This is a look back at was has happened during the week. Paintings Below are this week’s paintings. The flower is from a photo by Emma Taylor (@generativeOD). And the painting with the trees and green moss is from Fermansbo Urskog, which is an old-growth forest. Books This week I’ve read The Way of Zen…
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Retrospective 2019-19
This is a look back at what has happened during the week. Paintings Below are this week’s paintings where I explore the use of colors. I have become better at seeing and working with contrasts compared to a month ago. Books One from ManyI mentioned last week that I planned to review On Dialogue by…
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Retrospective 2019-18
Introduction The purpose of this post is to summarize the week. First, a short background. I have done weekly retrospectives since 2016. However, this is the first retrospective this year which I write in English. So much of what I read is in English, and it feels akward having to translate it into Swedish while…
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Retrospektiv 2019-17
Detta är en återblick på veckan. Nya målningar Under veckan har jag fortsatt att rita och måla. Några motiv återkommer jag till, andra är nya (se nedan). Jag har fått frågan om mina målningar är till salu? Ja, jag kan tänka mig att börja sälja reproduktioner på akvarellpapper av hög kvalitet. Respekt för människor Natalie…