Attraction to the Unknown through the pen of Haruki Murakami
Murakami employing his signature gloominess though the characters’ nostalgia enters yet another echelon of the metaphorical realm in South of the Border, West of the Sun. “There is no middle ...
Spiritual Art Liberates its Creators
One might assume that spiritual art evaporated centuries ago and if present then only in nativist, tribal artistic practice. Yet, most of what we understand to be contemporary art is ...
Ingressi di Milano: the pumping heart and veins of Italian wealth shows glamorous eclectic inner architectural taste
The entrance to a building, be it a home, an office, atelier, studio or an art museum makes a statement to anyone finding their way in here. But what if ...
Discussing Languages of Truth in the essays by Salman Rushdie
Truth can be the mother of common interest, but there is a glitch, well a few and its enemies know... Truth is a powerful asset. Through either — art and ...
The Moon: her, the mirror of light in the darkness of cyclic renewal
The Moon has fascinated humanity ever since our eyes opened to the changing, cyclic pattern outside in our natural world. From the ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Egypt, China, India, from the ...
Gertrude Stein: life of the greatest woman in art of the 20th century
Gertrude Stein was a muse of the most intriguing men and women of the first half of the 20th century. Either declared or behind the scenes string puller, those she ...
Naoshima and Lee Ufan: expressive interconnection “exalting the self and the other”
Lee Ufan nudges you to see what you normally do not see. As in meditation, his work is not about ideas but rather transcendence of the self. The philosophical artworks ...
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Feeling, emotions and communication are not just human and some higher animal distinctions, trees do have something like a nervous system and so they react and talk. In The Hidden ...
Forest Bathing by Dr Quing Li: BETTER MIND, MOOD AND HEALTH FROM THE FOREST
The Japanese mindfulness practice shinrin-yoku, known in the West as forest bathing, fascinates scientists as much as wellness devotees. Like with anything enhancing our health and happiness, the literature on ...
