<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Hello,</span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">In the November 12 issue of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/creston-davis/art-still-offers-hope-my-_b_6125700.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Huffington Post,</font></a> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">professor, writer and activist Creston Davis wrote about the project:</span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">"Art Still Offers Hope" and “The project is based on <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-beuys-747" class=""><span class="" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">Joseph Beuys</span></a>'s idea of a "social sculpture".</span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><span id="result_box" lang="en" class=""><span class="hps">We</span> <span class="hps">are pleased</span> <span class="hps">to invite you to</span> <span class="hps">our project </span></span>"<a href="http://www.paintingsforhope.org/"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Paintings for Hope</font></a>". </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">We are giving away a painting a day, for 365 days.</span></div><div class=""><span lang="en" class="" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="hps">All information and</span> <span class="hps">links</span> <span class="hps">are</span> <span class="hps">attached.</span><br class=""><span id="result_box" lang="en" class=""><span class="hps">We are</span> <span class="hps">happy</span> e<span class="hps">specially</span> <span class="hps">if</span> <span class="hps">you</span> <span class="hps">would</span> <span class="hps">generously</span> <span class="hps">spread the word</span></span></span></div><div class=""><span lang="en" class="" style="font-size: 16px; "><span lang="en" class=""><span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">invite</span> <span class="hps">other</span> <span class="hps">people around</span> <span class="hps">the world</span><span class="">.</span></span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="hps">Thank you very much and</span> <span class="hps">best regards</span> <span class="hps">from the island of Paros in Greece</span><span class="">,</span><br class=""><span class="hps">Heidi and</span> <span class="hps">Peter</span> <span class="hps">Seibt</span></span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">---</span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Paintings for Hope:</span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><a href="http://www.paintingsforhope.org/">www.paintingsforhope.org</a><br class=""></span><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="mailto:yes@paintingsforhope.org" class="" style="font-size: 16px; ">yes@paintingsforhope.org</a><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Paros / Greece</span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">phone: 0030 22840 23 368<br class=""></span></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">skype: cpsparos </span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "> </span> </div><div><div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class=""><br class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima" style="font-size: medium; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div class="" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Optima; "><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: Optima; "><br class=""></span></b></div><div class="" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Optima; "><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: Optima; "><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 16px; ">Paintings For Hope</span></b></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; "><i></i></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; "><i>A radical, generous and creative art project, a social sculpture,</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; "><i>an alternative to the cynicism of the art marketplace.</i></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; "><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: Optima; "></span></i></p><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; "><span class="">Every day we are bombarded with images of horror, with malignant ideas, empty noise, obscene arbitrariness, inflated mediocrity and the cynical misinterpretation that the value of art is its price. People call this "Art" but it is in fact the "Art Market". (Stupid. Fat. Kitsch.) Our hopes disappear under the daily terror of power over the powerless.</span></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; "><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">We simply do not accept it; it is basic: War is not peace and the price of something is not the value. In short, the market is not the art. Cynicism is not creation. But we are not at all rendered helpless by this billion-dollar industry. Instead we created the radical art project "<a href="http://www.paintingsforhope.org/"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">365 Paintings for Hope</font></a>".</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">In the November 12 issue of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/creston-davis/art-still-offers-hope-my-_b_6125700.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Huffington Post</font></a>, professor, writer and activist Creston Davis wrote: “The project is based on <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-beuys-747"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Joseph Beuys´s</font></a> idea of a "social sculpture".</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">In fact, the concept of a social sculpture is a form of hope in itself: Human beings, communicating with art, change their attitude toward existence and thereby society is transformed. The raw material of a social sculpture is the interweaving of people's dreams and hopes and is expressed in the form and the process of giving and receiving. Specifically, our project "365 Paintings for Hope" takes on the form that each day, for a year, we share daily a different painting in order to stimulate hopes remembered or created for those who encounter it.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">At the completion of “365 Paintings for Hope”, thousands of people will have linked their hopes to a piece of art which in turn is also linked to the hopes of others through art. Hope is spread throughout social relations in and through art. Imagine the joy. Imagine the possibilities.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">This is how it works: The painting of the day appears on our website. People in whom the painting sparks an awakening of hope write to us of their thoughts and feelings. Perhaps they want the painting simply for its beauty and this is good enough. Beauty is a primal human need. Dostoevsky believed that beauty saves the world.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; min-height: 19px; ">Every day we hold a lottery of the people who submit their desire for a certain painting. If your name is selected, we send you the painting, wherever in the world you may be, absolutely free of charge: a profound and ancient human way to share art.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">Now we are more than two thirds through the project. 270 people got their painting. Many told us how receiving this piece of art they found beautiful and which spoke to them of their hopes has brought a change in their lives. We learned that they, in turn, communicate this change to others. So the change grows and grows. We as the creators and realizers follow the process, never directing it, merely observing it and deriving deep pleasure in its evolving.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">What happened until now: So many hopes. The hopes which gives art, the hope that a society can be a community, the hope, that we can create a difference, that we are the difference.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; "> C. Peter and Heidi Seibt</div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 36pt; "><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: Optima; "><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><div class="" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0cm; "></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; "><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 16px; "><o:p class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima"> </font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima" style="font-size: 16px; "><span lang="EN-US" class="">Creston C Davis: interview with Peter Seibt / <span class="" style="color: windowtext; "><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/creston-davis/art-still-offers-hope-my-_b_6125700.html" class="">Huffington Post</a></span></span> </font></p><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">Project Paintings for Hope:</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">On the <a href="http://www.paintingsforhope.org/" class="">website</a> <a href="http://www.PaintingsForHope.org/" class="">www.PaintingsForHope.org</a> you will find:</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">the <a href="http://www.paintingsforhope.org/#!painting-of-the-day/c1b3t">painting</a> of the day and the application form to register,</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">the <a href="http://www.paintingsforhope.org/#!today/c7y6">winner</a> of the previous day,</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; min-height: 19px; ">a <a href="http://www.paintingsforhope.org/#!galleries-3651/ccfr">gallery</a> showing the paintings previously given away,</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">a <a href="http://www.paintingsforhope.org/#!world-map/c1b19">world map</a> of the new owners, their place of residence, their new obtained painting and the associated hope,</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; min-height: 19px; ">all submitted <a href="http://www.paintingsforhope.org/#!all-hopes-of-a-painting/c14re">hopes</a> to a single painting are listed in intervals,</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">a gallery showing the <a href="http://www.paintingsforhope.org/#!new-owners/c8ha">new owners</a> with their painting.</div><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; "> </p><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; ">on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PaintingsForHope">facebook</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; "><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Optima; "><a href="http://www.cpseibt.com/" class="">work of C.P.Seibt</a></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima" style="font-size: 16px; "><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:yes@paintingsforhope.org" class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima" style="font-size: 16px; ">yes@paintingsforhope.org</font></a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><br><br></div></body></html>