c'est l'Art qui va nous sauver

The day after writing the Saturday posts (which naturally has to be Sunday) I went for a party called 'a Sunday meeting with young Belgian artists'. In my desperation for kicking off a wonderful social life, I do not miss any opportunity. The event was full of great, international people working for different companies, EU institutions, having lived in the most remote places of the globe and coming from different parts of the world or from different countries at the same time (the lucky bastards who have more than one nationality and hence more than one passport!). The first thing clearly different from what I had experienced before was the fact that most of them would genuinely like or almost love their lives in Brussels. They would enjoy the social life, the company of other people and the events. Moreover, all of them would do those kind of jobs that I usually describe with one word - boring. But somehow, another part of their personalities was sensitive to art. They could manage an interesting discussion far from the topics of finances, marketing or audit. It was an interesting discovery. And it is always good to talk to people who feel happy, isn't it? A few words of conversations, a few glasses of never-failing vin rouge (red wine) and a few pieces of advice how to find yourself in a new life in a new city later I got some new friends and made concrete plans for the next social events. The first one is tomorrow! Finally a huge breakthrough in my personal life here. I am telling you. And I will be telling you in the next posts.

And by the way - the artists were a calligrapher and a photographer who combine their talents and come up with a marvelous pieces of arts - calligraphic writing which is then photographed. The outcome of the whole process that is a bit more complex can be found here. It's the Art that will save us!