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 a golden triangle to an Egyptian on the south bank of the Mediterranean Sea. Δ Under the library, in a cellar, with a flashlight […]
Be my guest: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Predag Matvejevic, Janine Antoni
“We need a port of departure: A shore or view, an event or a story. The place we are leaving is less important than the one we will arrive at.“ Breviare Mediterraneen, Predag Matvejevic Hiroshi Sugimoto/ Time Exposed: A presentation of some of Sugimoto’s photographs from the portfolio “Time Exposed.” The portfolio consists of 50 […]
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 is speaking about his video artwork, Ocean Without a Shore – exhibited at Venice Biennale 2007. He points out the link between the dead and the […]
Be my Guest: Billy Collins and William Kentridge
BE MY GUEST is a venue for others to share their art; I assemble between creators in my virtual sitting room. Linear time and locality are not relevant. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf69NbUlZXk Introduction to Poetry by: Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slideor press an […]
Ancient Alexandria Library-my story, part 2
A note from Haruki Murakami It was my last week in Kyoto, August 2011. Sensei recommended me to visit Murin–an’s garden, she told me her older son who is an architect, was in charge of some renovations in the building. I took it as a personal gift. After strolling for a few hours, I decided […]