The Ambrosia of Dionysus

The Time of the Hazelnut

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SILVIA PIO and LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE (edited by) «Because hazelnut time is a calendar, an emotion, a carriage of green and glass bearing memories and hopes…» (Luigi Sugliano) Hazelnut groves have covered the Langhe hills for decades, with an expansion…

Picasso’s War and Peace

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SILVIA PIO He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train…

Crann, a Symphonic Hymn to the Tree

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CRANN, Creation, Transformation and Innovation. Some Notes on the Making of a Film-Work The source and matrix of Margutte’s Albero Project (2016) is Richard Berengarten’s poem Tree (1981). This is a symphonic hymn to the arboreal in every register. Each of…

Looking Backward for Moving Forward

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PAUL SCOTT DERRICK This offers two bodies of work that have grown from roots planted deep in the ancient Chinese book of wisdom, the I Ching (or Book of Changes). It isn’t my purpose to interpret or to apply any…

The Sacred Art of the Yijing

YIJING SACRED ART TOTEM XVII

GABRIEL TORRES CHALK 玄德 The strokes carved on the black walnut are the work of a fungus. I discovered the codification of the Universe in those images/symbols. It is the magic moment of the teamwork between the tree and the fungus.…

Modesty and Mastery

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PAUL SCOTT DERRICK Ian Sharp (b. 1954 in Louth, Lincolnshire) is an undiscovered talent. Except for a smattering of local exhibitions in the city of Valencia, where he lived from 1984 till 1996, and a few more in the seaside…