{"id":857,"date":"2016-10-10T22:17:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T21:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/?p=857"},"modified":"2017-02-03T22:41:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:41:22","slug":"emma-levie-about-her-experience-as-an-artist-in-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/emma-levie-about-her-experience-as-an-artist-in-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Levie about her experience as an artist in residence."},"content":{"rendered":"

If I had one sentence to describe what my residency at Moinhos do D\u00e3o has brought me it would be this one:\u00a0‘Moinhos do D\u00e3o has awakened my senses’<\/em><\/p>\n

Fortunately I have a few more.<\/em><\/p>\n

After 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’m 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.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

While here I created a daily routine for myself, it went like this:<\/em><\/p>\n

reading
\nbreakfast
\nwalking
\ncoffee
\nreading
\nwalking
\nswimming
\nlunch
\npracticing Portuguese
\npainting\/drawing
\nreading
\ncooking
\ndinner
\nreading
\nsleeping
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

(I occasionally took a shower, checked my e-mail and did the dishes too.)<\/em><\/p>\n

What 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.
\nEvery 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’s 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’t find inspiration, all I have to do is change my focus, take a closer look, or widen my view.
\n\"emmahaan\"<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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If I had one sentence to describe what my residency at Moinhos do D\u00e3o has brought me it would be this one:\u00a0‘Moinhos do D\u00e3o has awakened my senses’ Fortunately I have a few more. After two years of being graduated from art school, I was searching for some rest and peace, in the restless career […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moinhosdodao.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}