“…but in the sense of someone or something from years or decades or centuries past that seems to speak to you, personally; some act of creation that sparks a glowing connection of admiration, or a recognition of perfect mutual strangeness. A “kindling” spirit”
“I love making almond flummery by candlelight in the early morning hours, as the household still sleeps. The kitchen is quiet and dark. The scent of rosewater, almonds, and apricot kernels rising from the mortar and pestle transform the kitchen countertop to a magic carpet that carries me off to 18th century England.”
“We are still in Entebbe, the virus is still evolving and we are trying to keep track of the changes. The bamboo continues to grow, there is another generation of marigolds blooming.”
Poems and photographs from Michele Farinelli
Tati is a sort of magpie of human (and canine) foibles; a collector of gestures and moments of absurdity.
By Pia De Girolamo January is a transitional month of endings and beginnings. In art, the god Janus is depicted as having two faces, one looking ahead and one looking backwards. So […]
“People live and mark their existence in the silent voice of their remains.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” – Martin Luther King
I graduated and worked for a few years before deciding, in August 1980, to chuck it all in and travel around the world.
“How do you represent that which is not there but which occupies an affective place, a place in our mind?” An interview with Uruguayan plastic and visual artist Margarita Brum
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