This morning in New York City I was thinking about Jan Pohribny and his family in Prague. I recalled that I had photos from their wonderful house that I enjoyed visiting very much. While looking through them, I really missed them…and, in ways I can’t quite articulate, Prague…one of the most mysterious and haunted cities.
I decided to share these today (I had their permission to share when I took them, just didn’t get around to posting them).
You can learn more about the talented Jan Pohribny here. And in an older post, you can learn more about his magical village, Únětice , where their house is located.
Thinking of ... read more »
Tagged architecture, beauty, design, jan pohribny, photography, photos, prague, Unetice
Fountain, 2011 by an amazingly inspiring artist Winn Rea.
Plastic Strips Hanging Down
Value of Water Exhibition at St. John’s Cathedral.
There were lots of mediums through which artists participated. I thought this one was very cool given so much plastic is wasted for water bottles. There were others works by Winn Rea at the Cathedral but this was the best one I captured to share. You can read more about her here.
I will aslo be contacting Art for Water. They had some amazing art and words to share as well.
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Tagged art, beauty, earth, nyc, photos, st.john's cathedral, upperwestside, water, Winn Rea
From Still Sundays:
On Friday evening I visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art and was mesmerized by this amazing sculpture. I am sure most people who visit there often are quite used to it and hence could and couldn’t understand my state of awe. I took many photos and I felt none captured how I was actually feeling when I saw it. I gave up and in my silence contemplated why I was so drawn to it. I thought about it rest of the night and then while listening to a group of percussion drummers outside an art gallery in downtown Philly it finally clicked. That sculpture is precisely how I feel after I ... read more »
Tagged art, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, beauty, philly, photography, photos, sculpture, seekfindseek, words, writing
I came across a wonderful book The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf while I stayed at my cousin’s in Cambridge. I share some excerpts from the final chapter. No, I did not finish the book in two days, I just happened to look at the end first like I often do when it comes to non-fiction and magazines.
I recognize that most people on social media have the attention span worse than my “reluctant readers” (9th graders repeating 9th grade for the 4th time). However, after my most recent “writing world” exposure in Prague, I can say this with certainty: although social media (twitter, blogs, Posterous etc.) are a great tool to share with another audience, ... read more »
Tagged art, beauty, life, naomi wolf, seekfindseek
The name Etna comes from the Greek Aitne, but it was known as Mongibello in the past, which is a combination of the Latin, Monte for mountain and the Arabic Gibel, which also means mountain, or rather mountain of mountains.
There is plenty of information available about Mount Etna.
Here I simply share a few shots from our excursion. The first one is of my brother Z laying on a rock that was once spewed as part of volcanic ash. The next one is of me doing what I do when my heart-mind begins stretching too fast: find earth for stillness. In this case I fell asleep. The air was cool, ... read more »
Tagged beauty, earth, italy, Mt. Etna, photography, sicily
