The Stuccadore Peon
“Do you know why you do not like conceptual art? It is because you know how to solve problems with your hands. You have the means to create plastically, visually. If you only had concepts, you would write.”
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Conversion is violence
No matter how much faith they might have had in their Lord, the view of the fuming volcano in such a foreign world might have filled the Jesuits with just enough doubt to worry as they looked across the valley from the destroyed pagan city of Cholula to behold the smoking giant the natives called […]
Read Moreinstrumental ā•multiplicity
Because I can’t write and sing at the same time 😉
Read MorePeão de Ornamento
“Você sabe por quê você não gosta de arte conceitual? É que você sabe resolver problemas com as mãos. Você possui os meios para criar plasticamente, visualmente. Se você tivesse só conceitos, você ia escrever.”
Read MoreKhadi
If you have never worn khadi — the traditional handspun, hand-woven cotton, wool or silk cloth of India — not only will such comfort and durability go unbeknownst to you, but you might also miss out on its incredible history.
Read MoreBook review: “More” by Hakan Günday, translated by Zeynep Beler
Sometimes you just have to stick with books you don’t necessary like.
Read MoreUrban art | Arte de rua – Rio de Janeiro
I’ve always said that I am not one for museums. There is something about objects extracted from their context that bore me, failing to capture my attention | Sempre falei que não gosto de museus: vendo um monte de obras extraídas dos respetivos contextos me da um tédio
Read MoreUn encuentro | An encounter
En mi recorrido por el mundo de la ciencia, lamento haber descubierto la cercanía con
el Arte un poco tarde, siento que estuve como muchos, cegada a ver la exactitud o las aproximaciones asintóticas en las ecuaciones | In my journey through the world of science, I regret having discovered the proximity of Art a little late. I think I felt as many do, blinded by the accuracy or the asymptotic approximations in the equations.
Childsplay and barbarity in San Cristóbal de las Casa: a return to Chiapas | Inocencia y barbarie: un viaje por San Cristóbal de las Casas
Childsplay and barbarity in San Cristóbal de las Casa: a return to Chiapas Photos and Text by Fabián Calderón Martínez, historian focused on the theory and philosophy of history from Puebla, México. I was surprised to see how a child was selling some curious clay animals that would better serve as toys than as ornaments, […]
Read MorePastel, caldo, verdades & sujeira | Street food, truths and filth
Foi um nó na garanta que saiu depois de uma semana horrível no Rio de Janeiro | The past week in Rio de Janeiro had been hairy and horrific, and it had given me a hairball to cough up and spit out.
Read MoreBook review: “El llano en llamas” (the Burning Plain and other stories) by Juan Rulfo
Framing the context of the Rulfo’s work, my nephew could help but to ignite interest: “No te olvides que la Revolución Mexicana sucedió antes de la Rusa, ¿eh?” he said, reminding me of the global significance of the violent land and agrarian reform that was the Mexican Revolution, which happened even before that of the momentous Russian one that changed the course of history for the world.
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