Be my guest: Sappho and Orly Portal Dance Company
BE MY GUEST is a venue for others to share their art; I assemble between creators in my sitting room. On the Internet linear time and locality are not relevant. Therefore, Sappho and Orly Portal meet here in poetry and dance. I wish we had more of Sappho’s work with us today. So little is […]
A dream
I dream I am at the of Ancient Alexandria Library. Scrolls are gathered on shelves all around. Many are spread on long wooden benches, circled by people wearing white togas. They are talking, debating, and Aristotle is one of them. It sounds a bit like Greek. I stroll to the gardens. Peacocks walking slowly between orange […]
Collections
Be my Guest: James Turell under Jerusalem light
light – window – sky – אור – חלון – שמים httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20j1ZjNq5iw&feature=youtu.be httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLcMBST0NWc&feature=plcp James Turell, Space that Sees, 1992, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Ari and Shari Hallelujah!
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. Since it felt important, I buried it in the courtyard for people of the future to find and know what happened here. I probably still […]
The geography of the seas
Envelope
I am back from Greece. With my love to the Mediterranean sea and cultures, my respect to the Phoenicians, memory of Ancient Alexandria Library – I was the second skipper on a small yacht. We read aloud sentences from the Odyssey, as if time did not pass. We were contemplating on all the Greek knowledge organized in Alexandria library- […]
Returning home
Please operate both videos simultaneously httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNL6Ht2JReY&feature=youtu.be httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38WdrKSrmOM&feature=plcp More here: Arriving at Ithaka, A letter from Penelope to my readers Dinner with Penelope and Odysseus Envelope
Triangles
As I stroll on Dimitry Pikionis’s walkways in Athens, I deeply identify with his love of stone, fresh compositions, texture, rhythm, patina and deep knowledge of history. I can choose so many frames – I can photograph here forever! Then I notice that many squares tend to break down at their edges. I write down […]