The painted street.....

My neighbor painter The neuro-biology student. We had a nice conversation about how the brain works.

 My project "the Bull' stencil..

 A family project, a fire truck. they came to paint with 4 little boys. I was impressed this mother was taking on this adventure with all of them present..Very daring!! If i would have taken mine with me i think the whole street would have been painted in no time, Outside the box(stencils) and with their feet instead of a brush. :-)

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Where it started today

This morning really early we started to paint on the pavement on the Warmoestraat. Which is the main street in the Red-light district of Amsterdam...I've been participating in this street painting project today. A project that was created by a large group of artists with the purpose to bring the people who work and live on that street closer together, to bond. The people are working and living here had been asked to write a story about their lives, to share something personal about them with their neighbors. The stories were made into drawings and then translated into a huge stencils, this was done by various artists who have been working for several months now on this project. I was asked to participate to paint the street because there were too many last minute cancellations to do this part of the project.I was very happy to help. It was not only a very fun day...but also nice because i saw lots of familiar faces from fellow artists again after many years, from the time we went to art school together..

I have made lots of pictures and won’t  put them all in one post...it would be too much. This is the early morning preparation part of the day, before we painted anything yet..

              

                              

                               

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This sweet couple is a real team!

 I already talked about this here on my blog but I feel the urge to tell you something about it again. The work I do besides creative work is my healthcare job, in that job I work with new parents.  I help them to get back on their feet the first week after they have given birth. It at times is an extremely rewarding job because I get to experience the initial feeling of anxiety  turned into a feeling of it’s going to be all okay from the new parents. They start out feeling a bit panicky fresh out of the hospital with their own bundle of joy on their home couch.  But by the end of that first week they see that they can do this too, take care of their child on their own. The feeling of happiness on their faces is a huge reward ones I leave them behind after eight days.
And i get to go home with a warm feeling inside me knowing i met some really special people.

The past week I got to have that wonderful experience ones again. I worked at the home of such a lovely couple, at the end of the week I felt really sad to leave. They are a special couple, one you see very rarely. They could work so well together they started to ‘make’ things together. The cutest thing I ever heard was they knitted a sweater for their baby girl together. One of them did one arm the other did the other and so on. I was so moved  by this joint project.

Another thing they made as a team was the coolest couch you ever saw! They found an old door somewhere on the streets of Amsterdam and made it into a couch..really fabulous! 

 *Thank you Leonie and Dirk for giving me the permission to show pictures on my blog of your wonderful work of art!

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