Patrick Ostrowsky – Week 2 – Trusting the Process / The Pause
Aug 4, 2022
Hello new world,
it’s me again, Patrick.
Happy to welcome you back to my recap on the second week here in Sasso.
Right now I’m sitting at my desk, try to catch up with my thoughts regarding the second week. Hot wind blows. And as usually there’s too much to write about what happened during this past week. So I keep it quite short as my week has been split in two parts.
The first part of the week I spent here at Sasso, continuing my watercolour painting series which I still love for its calmness and slowness. Here are some more paintings out of that working process:
Besides that, and during the painting process I was pondering over how my creative process works and how I can nurture it. As I came here without a fixed plan, I really enjoyed this amplitude of processing this. By being open to whatever the site had to offer me I could dive deep into the potential of my surroundings. It has a lot to do with trusting into the process and being curious about the way it unfolds. I like this kind of intuitive approach to my immediate environment. It gives me space to connect on a different level, without thinking and doubting. That’s something which I want to progress in the next week to. Giving awareness and time to this wavelike movement.
For example, while strolling around the house I found some old vessels that as already been used for firing a kiln. As I’m right now really interested in clay as a material and its poetic gesture, I thought about working with it. So, I did some research, and I came up with a project for the final week of Sasso.
Raku firing.
As far as part two of my week is considered it has been a pause of my activities here in Vairano.
I had to interrupt in my reading, running, cooking and painting rhythm for finally realizing a project that I’ve been working on since almost one year with great fellow colleagues. A group show called Mind-Body-Matter. I’m super happy with the result and the show. If you’re interested in the show, you can find some more info here:
or just click on my Instagram to find some updates.
I’m super excited if the Raku firing will work out and what kind of results this open and new experiment will hold up for me. So, stay tuned :)
Baci
Patrick
