Emma Ruth Levie - Artist in Residence at Moinhos do D\u00e3o September & October 2016<\/strong><\/p>\nEmma about her experience being in the Residency:<\/p>\n
If I had one sentence to describe what my residency at Moinhos do D\u00e3o has brought me it would be this one:\u00a0\u2018Moinhos do D\u00e3o has awakened my senses\u2019
Fortunately I have a few more.<\/em><\/p>\nAfter two years of being graduated from art school, I was searching for some rest and peace, in the restless career I chose for.\u00a0When at home (Amsterdam) I always feel like I\u2019m running and doing nothing at the same time. I felt I needed some time away from my beloved people and city, that bring me a whole bunch of joy and distraction.
<\/em><\/p>\nWhile here I created a daily routine for myself, it went like this:<\/em><\/p>\nreading, breakfast, walking, coffee, reading, walking, swimming, lunch, practicing Portuguese, painting\/drawing, reading, cooking, dinner, reading, sleeping
(I occasionally took a shower, checked my e-mail and did the dishes too.)<\/em><\/p>\nWhat became most clear to me during my weeks at the Moinhos, is that I feel healthier when there are less decisions to make, that beauty is always around, and that nothing is ever the same.\u00a0I walked the same path to the village every day, and every day, there would be something new to see, to smell, or feel.
Every day something else would attract me to its beauty. One day it would be a leaf, the other day a plastic bottle with a bright yellow top in front of a concrete wall, and another day it would be a smiling woman with crooked teeth.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0Being here has showed me again that beauty is always around, and that it\u2019s easier to find it when there is not too much distraction.\u00a0I think that as an artist it is very important to remind myself, that in moments I don\u2019t find inspiration, all I have to do is change my focus, take a closer look, or widen my view.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marieke is going to make a book about a very personal experience which (unfortunately) also happens to be a very common experience nowadays. Dear Me,A few years ago we got into a little rut together.I though we were doing great. We were living on the beach in Australia \u2013 created a freelance life as an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":59,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/1261"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}