Gaspar Scholl Chafirovitch – week 2 + 3 – decelerate

Oct 1, 2022

Ciao, bongiorno é hoi

The last two weeks I have been practicing to slow down to be ” present in time “. For this I have developed different routines, which I follow daily. These include:

meditating,
physical exercises,
walking,
writing,
drawing,

For the first time in my life, I start the day with the same routine over and over again. Reading, meditating, body exercises, writing, eating breakfast. And end the day with a routine. Physical exercises, writing – first with the left, then with the right – reading, sleeping. I establish these routines as an experiment, with no particular goal, but with curiosity about where it will lead me.

I draw what surrounds me and have begun writing haikus frequently. Haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form. It is characterized by concreteness, presentness and openness and is considered the shortest poem form in the world.

Here a sketch and haiku I made last week down by Lago Maggiore.

Guck! 
Ein Salamander faulenzt 
in der Sonne.

“Sasso” in Italian means stone or rock, which is why I decided to spend the time of the “Sasso Residency” working with stone, a material still unknown to me.

Since we are surrounded by stones, rocks and mountains here, I just had to choose one to work on.

I decided to climb the Monte Gambarogno and take some stones from the top of the mountain. Monte Gambarogno is the highest mountain in the area, which watches over the entire Gambarogno area – where Vairano and the Residency are also located.

As a secret performance, without spectators, I climbed the mountain and noted about every 15 minutes the altitude and what was on my mind.

A small excerpt from the notes: