Re-drawing the map on Longform. New Worlds, Hybridity and Undiscovered continents.
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Tomato – Mexican Farming Genius
Nice Photo. Helps register our contemporary priorities. With a generation arising that values ecology and quality of life, over materialistic and status concerns. It suggest a New Promise. Whats not to like? Tomato, originally grown/swollen from a tiny berry by Mexicans into the generous bulbous globular growth of delicious sweetness. Further Popularized by Italians in…
Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings.
Past show http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/infinitas-gracias.aspx Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings. Wellcome collection offers a library of extraordinary commemoration stories By Giuseppe Marasco Current exhibition of The Mexican votive Paintings at the Wellcome collection . Are prepared and offered to a chapel in thanks for miraculous assistance or relief in a time of need. Dating from the Revolution…
Light Fantastic! – At the Light Show – Hayward Galllery
Perhaps because despite the fact that it says Spring on the calendar, it’s really still winter, with record low temperatures predicted to last til at least mid April. (Anyone want to bet on Snow in June?) I’d left it until now to see the Light Show at the Hayward Gallery. I’d essentially waited til the…
Lichtenstein In London – Occasional evidence of an odd vulnerablity
By Giuseppe Marasco New Tate Modern Show Of interesting in this show are the Landscapes Liechtenstein Attends to. There is at play a concern with the vanishing point, and the flatness of the canvas surface. The vanishing point is traditionally associated with the limit of the spectators sight , and so the limit of what…
Disappearing Hands And Phantom Limbs found across London
By Giuseppe Marasco Disappearing hands, seeming standing in, fit, for work and handedness no longer present, no longer visible. A last evidence, slowly dissolving, of the construction of the material present. This hand, the pocket bubble of time that it may represent, lingers on a little longer like a tracer. Soon about to be eaten…
POMPEII & HERCULANEUM sTRIKE bACK!
The spiral of the entrance ushered then into the black … sets the scene, entering into the underworld where we stumble upon all array of objects, that look as if they had been touched just yesterday, or even just a couple of hours ago. Still humming with life I would want to talk of ghosts…
Restorative Moment as we wait for Spring in the Midst of Our second Christmas in London
I hear on the grapevine that The Cherry Trees are in blossom in Japan. And soon the delightful and sublime Spring Mochi will be on sale in Piccadilly road! But alas! In London it has just snowed today, and continues to so as well speak. It collects, and there is an inch about everywhere. Hand whisked…