sunfright | saturday.

GREYISH BLUISH by

sunfright

I take neither my passionfruits nor you with me home, my apartment feels fruitless under the weight of evening, the coming of day. The sun burns in red and orange, it puts the water of the bay to a boil. At the centre of Earth everything already boils, it is like a lovesick soul in there, but Vesuvius sleeps through lesser emotional outbursts than its own.

My bed is in the order of one to a thousand and I drag time around with me, from room to room, in one place I wash my hands, in the next I clean my heart's surfaces, on the livingroom's windowsill two withered roses are dyed glowing again by the last stages of sunset.

Those and not you do I take with me into the bedroom.

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The picture is actually by me today? I was looking through old photos on my phone and came across this beauty from four years ago when I visited the National Gallery of Copenhagen while staying with my writing buddy to work on our book. It's a Hammershoi motif, which you can immediately tell if you've learned anything at all about Danish art history. The colours are so muted and soft, like a sheen of dust lain out over the canvas and the light is exquisite. I took a photo of this particular painting (and I was allowed, would never dream to snap shots where it wasn't okay), because I kind of saw myself in it? The greyness, kind of depressing, sitting all alone in your room-feeling, along with a beautiful, bright influx of light, reminding you that life's worth it. Even looking at it through the lens, I feel that way. Even today, four years later.

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NAPOLI PAS DE SIX & TARANTELLA - ROYAL DANISH BALLET

The book my writing buddy and I were working on at the time was inspired by the ballet 'Napoli' by August Bournonville who's the cornerstone of the Danish ballet tradition. The current Artistic Director of the RDB, Nikolaj Hübbe, has done a lot to try and redress Bournonville to the Danish audiences, modernize it. His first attempt was with 'A Folk Tale' (here in full length, uploaded) in 2009-, but Napoli is probably his biggest success. He placed the old late 19th century tale in Naples of the 1960s with everything that entailed and he made a fun and beautiful ballet from it. The colours are so crisp and the atmosphere of the place very vivid. I personally love it, but the purists aren't very happy with anything he's done, I'll be honest. This is no doubt the best part of the ballet, though, and the music is just so... we're having a ball in the middle of the street-ish sound to it, comparatively to it being composed in 1800-something. This video also features my two favourite ballerinas! Holly Dorger in the green dress and Susanne Grinder (since retired) in the blue one. Especially Susanne's variation is very Bournonville, lyrical and dainty. If you have half an hour of your day to spare, give yourself this experience!

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WHAT'S GOING ON IN RL
Sat up most of the night last night. Happens more and more often these days, my sleeping pattern is completely fucked. However, I made some important decisions for myself - realizing that RP'ing has been stressing me out for a while, I just decided to take a hiatus from it, at least a month, maybe more. Focus more on my original work, get good at writing in English again. So while I sat up at my desk, sleepless, I signed up for

genprompt_bingo and have received my first bingo card! I'm planning on writing Swan Lake-inspired stuff for all the prompts, just to give myself a framework and keep focused. Not stress myself out with too many options. One thing you gotta know about me, LOL, options kill me.

Otherwise, the plan today is for my gf and I to go to the beach and buy fish 'n' chips at the local fish place they got there. Early dinner - with a view. Before we go, though, I think we're stopping by the nearest mall and buying new jigsaw puzzles, because seeing as we don't roleplay at the moment, we need to pick up old habits of being together, sharing activities. Chess and puzzles, here we come!

I can hear her practicing at her piano right now, not the melody (though I know it's Liszt), because her headphones are plugged in, but her fingers on the keys, the tap tap tap. I love knowing she's working on something that gives her so much joy - and I just hope I'll soon be able to settle into something that brings me the same kind of joy as her, at the piano.