It turned out that one of the ways to make friends with the neighbors is to ask them for the cutting from the Passion Fruit (Passiflora edulis) vine that they forgot about in their front yard. I first noticed the plant few months ago when I saw a local fox trying to bite one of the low hanging fruits of it. At the later inspection the fruit itself turned out not to be particularly tasty, even for the fox. But the vine had beautiful alien-looking flowers that just had to be painted.  

As I contemplate the new direction that my creative processes is taking, I came across an inspiring and telling documentary from by Isaac Niemand, called "New Art and the Young Artists behind it". It is based on the 2010 Contemporary Culture Festival in São Paulo, Brazil.