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This exhibit will get under your Skin

-> This exhibit will get under your Skin

An exhibit on Skin at the Wellcome Institute in London (183 Euston Road) is a show for those with strong stomachs. But having heard a lot about it, I went... It was the first time I visited the museum of the Wellcome Institute (which has a vast collection of objects as well as an important library) and I enjoyed the way that curators have linked sc...

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Jul 22, 2010 | Categories: Exhibitions | Tags: london, skin, wellcome | Leave A Comment »

Footnotes to a blank page

Magazine -> #27 The Culture of Listening

You could be me. Any human being on earth could end up in my situation – that of an (im)migrant. I am not talking about tourists who give up their daily life at home to try living somewhere else for a time. I’m talking about people who pack up their lives and move to a country that is so foreign that they have to mobilise all their resources - ...

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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: cartloads, countries, cultures, difference, email, expatrieted, foreign, home, human being, identify, ignorance, immigrant, interpret, language, life | Leave A Comment »

On butterflies’ wings

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

In front a cup of coffee. “I learnt to paint like Raphael, now I have to learn to draw like a child.” Pablo Picasso I’ve often wondered whether art and life are really related. Some artists have indeed turned their lives into their best work of art. But what a price some have had to pay for their commitment and approach to life! Oscar...

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Nov 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: absolute beauty, acknowledge, age, appearance, art, beauty, caravaggio, country, deep meaning, desires, details, dreams, emotional content, endless job, eternal damnation | Leave A Comment »