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My bookshelf in the Ancient Library of Alexandria
My grandfather told me the story of The Ancient Library of Alexandria. It has been present in my mind with a sense of loss since childhood. I imagined the
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Mound Hacker on his way to Rome
My late grandfather, the architect Issac Kipnis, was the first to tell me the story of the burnt library of Alexandria. I was eight years old. The lost knowledge of the western world intrigued me ever
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What is this blog about?
My first memory of collecting and organizing knowledge is from the age of six. In a new notebook, I wrote all I knew about my ancestors and the pyramids.
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Be my Guest: Dimitris Pikionis and Euclid
Clio points out the beauty of the pavements as we are walking towards the Acropolis. The sun sets into to the Mediterranean sea. I find it a bit irritating to step on art. This is how
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Dogon on my computer
1995 Isaac Rabin was murdered. That week I was in Paris with our 18 years-old daughter. It was her birthday present to visit museums in the city of lights. We
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Alexandria remains
Images of Alexandria Library are on my mind. Playing in the sand tray – visions emerge: a scribe and scrolls. Euclid in Greece sits next to another scribe, connected through
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Be my guest: Bill Viola and Gaston Bachelard
BE MY GUEST is a venue for others to share their art; I assemble between creators in my sitting room. Linear time and locality are not relevant. Bill Viola
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Be my Guest- Gabriel Orozco and Alex Epstein
BE MY GUEST is a venue for others to share their art; I assemble between creators in my sitting room. Linear time and locality are not relevant. I learned about
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Sun print 2
As I leafed in the pile of documents my mother handed me, I found more fragments of the past; I saw this curious photograph of Issac Kipnis, my grandfather, respectfully shaking
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