This week combined two highlights, Art Basel and the summer solstice. And all accompanied by perfect summer weather.
So we are already leaving spring of 2025 behind us. It’s incredible how quickly the months pass and the weeks fly by. The sun is in its element. It burns down from a mostly cloudless, blue sky and its last light still illuminates the horizon at half past 10pm, with dusk falling again at 4am. I love them, these long days. Every year I wish the whole thing would stop so that the long, cold nights that I can’t even imagine at the moment wouldn’t return. But from now on we are heading towards shorter days again, even if this is not immediately noticeable. The blackbirds and other birds are still singing around the clock in the trees of the nearby park, but they will soon fall silent until next February. Everything seems so precious to me. Because it is fleeting…like our lives.
Carefree midsummer days
Art is all around
In addition to the summer solstice, we were delighted with Art Basel in Basel, which once again put art at the center of everyday life. Even though the art market is a tough business, everything seems so different when you are surrounded by beauty and inspiration. When creativity sets the tone, love, the creation of something new. The antithesis to the destruction and hatred, greed and violence that seem so omnipresent on the other side. It was like diving away from reality, into a soft, sweet slumberland. Like the fabrics of xxx, which swayed gently in the wind and gave the stony reality of Münsterplatz something very soft. Here, too, there is a touch of melancholy when Art Basel comes to an end. Why can’t it always be like this?
Three of so many artworks
Taking care of my own happiness
The coming and going, the ups and downs. Creation and destruction are universal laws to which we are subject. There is nothing we can do to change them. But we can do as much good for ourselves as we need to be happy. On Sunday, I went out to the flower field just after sunrise and cut summer flowers for two bouquets. They are keeping me company as I write this and remind me of the beauty that nature has in store for us outside, behind the shutters closed due to the heat.
The beauty of flowers to add happiness to your life
