The word "synchronicity" was coined by Carl Jung in the 1920's to explain what occurs when seemingly coincidental events are connected by meaning.
This past week I was early for a lunch date and wandered into ArtsPost Galleries & Shop in Hamilton, adjacent to the Museum. I'm always on the lookout for special gifts for various family member birthdays, Christmas, etc., also hostess gifts for the friends I stay with on my annual visits to California. I'd been into ArtsPost before and found a painting by a local Waikato artist that now hangs in the Cottage at Struan Farm. It's always worth a browse.
Bingo! Really interesting chef's aprons with a list of iconic Kiwi foods and beverages, these are heading to California:
But where this story starts to get a bit odd is when I went to pay. The lady at the till told me that the aprons were made by a German artist from the Coromandel Peninsula named Daniel Kirsch. (Kirsch is the artist who made the Manuka Beehive Series piece that John recently bought me for my birthday.)
I explained that I had just been given a piece by this same artist; it turns out ArtsPost has some of this same Series for sale and recently hosted an exhibition.
Included with the aprons was a background piece on Daniel that includes this quote: "Beauty can spontaneously occur at any moment given the proper circumstances, context or point of view."
I definitely agree. I'm just not sure why I keep bumping into this artist's work, am beginning to wonder if the universe has some sort of plan, if it is synchronicity, or if these random events are simply coincidence.
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