Daily Poetics

I wish to enter her like a dream / Leaving my roots here on the beach.

Christine J. Brandt.
Organic, raw ... sublime rings by Christine J. Brandt
Title Quote: Anne Sexton

 

What haunts are not the dead but the gaps left within us by the secrets of others. Nicolas Abraham, L'ecorce et le noyeau

Link: cathy mclaurin | what haunts.

 Via Dynamo

Inspired by my own family secrets, what haunts... is an interactive art installation that explores secrets and their universality. Viewers respond and participate by reading and adding, in anonymity, their own - often-intimate - secrets to the installation. The varied secrets evoke sadness, horror, shock, humor, and reassurance. They "are riveting to read, telling stories of abortion, adoption, and affairs mixed with more universal confessions, like, 'my heart is broken and I am terrified.'" -Cathy McLaurin

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The installation consists of a wall papered with secrets and a booth where participants add secrets to the project. Written in pencil on hand-cut 4"x5" newsprint rectangles, the secrets have the visual tone of a whisper, on an intimate scale. The newsprint yellows over time, evoking remnants of the past, old family letters, and nostalgia. The first 150 of the more than 2000 secrets in the project were collected by mail and exhibited in a 2002 exhibition at Artists Foundation Gallery in South Boston. The booth component was created in 2002. The spare wooden structure (6'9"x3'x3') and muslin curtain create a private and meditative space - a confessional. Participants write and then deposit their secrets into a locked box. During the time in which the project is installed, I periodically unlock the secrets and add them to an adjoining wall. Thus, participants experience the power of having written their secret and then seeing it posted alongside those of previous participants. "Viewers often spend hours reading all of the secrets posted on the walls and often come back multiple times to view the project... what haunts... demonstrates how much people have in common and how common their secrets are. It is a snap shot of what makes us human and of the human condition.".... -C.M.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

Link: Ariana Page Russell.

"Each body becomes an index of passing time.  Bones shift, muscles loosen, freckles and wrinkles form, bruises appear; skin is the forum for these transitions.  Most immediately, it may evidence sensitivity, embarrassment, love, discomfort, fear, excitement, infection, health, attraction, and energy expended—reflecting vulnerability and conditions we’ve inhabited.  My own skin is extremely sensitive and reactive—blushing and swelling easily. Dermatographia is a condition in which one’s immune system exhibits hypersensitivity, via skin, that releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the skin’s surface is lightly scratched.  Although it may appear to be, it is not painful as I adorn my skin.  For the wallpaper series I cut photographs of my skin into various pieces simplified from wallpaper and other decorative designs.  Then I attach each individual piece to the wall, or onto board, forming shifting crimson patterns to embellish these surfaces. The patterns I use range from adaptations of Greek and Etruscan vases, Medieval diapers, and Renaissance pottery designs to contemporary wallpaper found in domestic spaces.  Although the basic elements of the designs remain constant, the configuration and placement of decoration is continually shifting within varying spaces, just as skin reveals the passage of time with its transitions. I am investigating where one surface ends and another begins, the bloom of adornment, and how exteriors reveal as they conceal."

Title Quote: John Dryden

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Link: Somersaults Life Archives.

Somersaults™ Life Archives
your life – full circle

"The genuine little details of everyday experiences when collected and curated add up to the eternal essence of our loved ones’ lives. Hand-me-down moments with the click of a shutter become frozen in time and our hearts. Sand between our toes. Tears of joy at the alter. That certain aroma from the back seat three days into the trip. The impossibly soft strip of satin on that tiny blanket. Fresh cut grass filling our every breath. The nervous first kiss and lingering last dance. Our dreams, loves, fears, triumphs and defeats captured in sights, sounds and words to be relived for generations. Somersaults™ Life Archives collects and protects all of your moments and memories in artfully produced products designed to make sure your loved ones’ lives come full circle." -somersaults

Design by Eric Kass, Funnel
Title Quote: Robert Aris Willmott

Another world is not only possible, She is on her way. And on a quiet day, if you really listen, you can hear her breathing.

Link: Daydreamer: Couture et Bricolage.

Title Quote: Arundhati Roy

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me

Link: raumge stalt.

"Wishes – the ring Right from our childhood, the power of making wishes is familiar to us: be it Aladdin rubbing his magic lamp, reciting magical poems to banish frightening nightmares, or the major or minor yearnings in our lives –the power of our wishes always seems to influence the way things work out. The plain ring invites you to listen to your wishes, irrespective of whether it is with words made available by others or self-created magical words - the wishes will be with you from now on."

Title Quote: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Link: It's Nice That.

"The results of an extensive exploration with shadows, the One Day Poem Pavilion demonstrates the poetic, transitory, site-sensitive and time-based nature of light and shadow. Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice, a reflection on the passing of time at the period of the winter solstice. The time-based nature of the poem–and the visitor’s time-based encounters with it–allow viewers to have different experiences either seeing a stanza of the poem or getting the whole poem. All of these possible experiences are equally valuable and have meanings unique to the individual. This technique has the potential for producing particular effects and meanings within an architectural environment. Without the use of a source of power other than the sun, this project uses light and shadow to push the boundaries of communication and experiential delight." -One Day Poem Pavilion by Jiyeon Song

Title Quote: Robert Penn Warren

What would happen if there were a glad acceptance of the sensuous in all forms? If we could rediscover our hands, eyes and ears, our tongues and noses, and then enjoy them without embarrassment.

Link: Aspen no. 4, item 7: The Braille Trail.

"A self-guiding nature trail for the blind — both seeing and non-seeing — teaches us to comprehend the natural world through the purest form of communication — touch, smell, hearing — without first filtering it through sight.

The Aspen Braille Trail was built high up in the Independence Pass wilderness, at 10,400 feet, by a small band of Aspenites and White River Forest Service personnel. Robert B. Lewis, scientist, idealist and prime instigator of the trail, hopes that it will serve as an experimental trail that other communities can emulate — maybe some day there'll be "a network of such trails across the country in woodlands, along streams, in the mountains and even the deserts!"

We are informed at the outset that no poisonous plants, insects or reptiles inhabit this tract of land, which is to say that there are only good vibrations. Touch, taste and smell! Our sight has blinded us to many of the marvels of the natural world, since it has anesthetized our other senses. Oddly, the wonders of the natural world are even more wondrous when experienced without sight.

The 23 trail markers were written by Dr. Alfred Etter, naturalist and conservationist, and our picture captions are excerpted from them."

Quote:  Ben Thompson

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, without inner or outer truth. -Auguste Rodin

Link: Urban Curators.

"The goal of the Urban Curators project is to engage the public in the celebration of the decaying urban environment, recog- nizing its inherent aesthetic qualities as well as the important role that it plays within our cultural habitat. The project achieves its goal by elevating common, overlooked objects and spaces within the city of Providence, Rhode Island to the level of high art.

The project achieves this elevation by literally hanging gold, gallery-style frames in derelict spaces within the city, framing objects and views that are of aesthetic or cultural value. By utilizing frames that one might expect to find in an art museum or gallery, viewers are forced to make connections between the urban landscape and the museum environment. Viewers are likewise encouraged to reconsider their prior conceptions of beauty and worth, understanding that the spontaneity of decay offers an alternative aesthetic to excessive design.

Humans have for centuries sought after the grandeur of ruins that were once the glory of ancient cultures, recognizing them as windows into the lives of past civilizations. The Urban Curators project proposes that we should likewise cherish those ruins that reflect modern-day consumerism and industr- ialization, realizing them as vehicles by which we can gain insight into our own society.

The frames themselves are hung with double-sided hardware tape and are easily removed without harm to the spaces in which they are placed. While this is a necessary component of the project, it likewise means that each frame will hang only temporarily. Due to the transient nature of the project, its success requires time and effort from not only the Urban Curators team, but from the community as a whole. While the project was originally born by six Rhode Island School of Design students, it cannot continue without input and partic- ipation from others. We hope that the community will interact with the project – finding our frames, removing them, relocating them, and installing their own."  -UC

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites. -Eli Siegel

Link: Aesthetic Realism Foundation International Periodical.

Aesthetic Realism is based on these principles, stated by Eli Siegel:

1.  The deepest desire of every person is to like the world on an honest or accurate basis.

2.  The greatest danger for a person is to have contempt for the world and what is in it .... Contempt can be defined as the lessening of what is different from oneself as a means of self-increase as one sees it.

3.  All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

Link: MENU - Dumbbells.

Menu's highly polished, »intertwined« dumbbells – each weighing one kilo – are simply a beautiful sculpture. Pick them up and they immediately become a fitness aid and a natural element in your training programme. They enhance the effectiveness of a great many fitness exercises for strengthening and toning the upper body and arms without over-dimensioning the muscles.

Design: Henriette Melchiorsen
Use: Fitness/decoration
Material: Stainless steel

In war there is no prize for runner-up. Seneca

Link: Foundation33.

Hope (war protest in London) / Sam Solhaug 2003

Velvet Davinci
Anti War Medals & WORDS FOR PEACE a collaborative installation by Thomas Ingmire, Betsy Raymond, and Kazumi Atsuta In March of this year, dismayed by both the imminent war in Iraq and ongoing U.S. defiance of the global community, Thomas Ingmire invited approximately eighty friends and colleagues to participate in a collective calligraphic project on the subjects of war, fear, and peace. Each person was asked to write out a statement on a 5" x 20" sheet of paper and send it to Thomas, who would then arrange these pieces into a work that would be shown as part of the Friends of Calligraphy exhibit, Kalligraphia X, at the San Francisco Public Library. Thomas also requested that the participants invite their friends, families, and colleagues to contribute statements; children, in particular, were encouraged to take part. To date, more than 750 people from twenty-eight nations have responded. With the invitations issued and pieces arriving daily in the mail, Thomas set about exploring various formats he might use as the unifying structure for the project. It soon became clear that creating a work whose "whole was greater than the sum of its parts" was going to be a challenge. Meanwhile, something unexpected was happening: Thomas began to realize that the participants' statements were raising questions for him which often felt as provocative as the statements themselves. One such question was if a war is already in progress--or, in the case of Iraq, is about to begin--then no matter how eloquent or heartfelt the protests against that war, do they come too late? A war does not simply start on one day and stop on another; its roots run wide and deep. If we truly want peace, Thomas reasoned, we must do more than protest against war at the eleventh hour. Instead, our day-to-day lives must reflect that desire. Thus the question "how do we achieve peace?" became for Thomas the more encompassing question "how are we to live ...as individuals, as nations, as fellow inhabitants of the Earth?" and from that one question, not surprisingly, sprang many others. Thomas decided to incorporate these questions into the work with the hope that they would prove thought provoking and even, perhaps, inspirational. In the end, he chose lanterns to serve as the structural heart of a sizeable installation. The lantern--a symbol not only of the desire to bring light into a world which seems so increasingly dark but also of the challenge which faces us to become more enlightened in and about the world--was a perfect choice. This installation at Velvet Da Vinci is the second showing of the project and includes about one half of the statements received to date. WORDS FOR PEACE is an ongoing project to which you are encouraged to submit your own words. For additional information, see the Words for Peace web site at Words for Peace.org ThomasIngmire.com.

Marie Howe, Poet.

...We want the spring to come and the winter to pass.  We want
whoever to call or not call, a letter, a kiss -- we want more and more and then more of it.

But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass,
say the window of the corner video store, and I’m gripped by a cherishing so deep

for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I’m speechless.
I am living...

Self trust is the essence of heroism. -Emerson

float marie e.v.b. gibbons.

Swimmers, Sea Pods and Residual Memory.

The Swimmer series is based on realizing the parallels between life in the ocean and life in general. The foremost realization is that in order to float one must be relaxed. If you panic you sink. In life we experience many situations that challenge us to stay relaxed, to keep our heads above water.

Sea Pods and Residual Memory are based on the imprinted memories of my time on the ocean, and the sharing of worlds - land and sea.

via ulla

Say something! And it says, “I burn.” -Robert Frost

Papier d'Arm�nie : Unique.

It is still the only interior air-freshener that works by burning paper, and the only one that uses Benzoin, a substance normally

Renowned since Antiquity for its antiseptic, healing and expectorant properties, benzoin balm was formerly applied externally to treat asthma, coughs and hoarseness. It became popular with those suffering from stress, because of its positive effect on the psyche and the emotions. It is believed to have purifying powers, and be able to eliminate all impure and coarse emotions and thoughts.

Papier d’Arménie is
still developing today, seeking enhancements, improvements and new designs.
Thus the last few years have seen new burners, new stencils and new forms of presentation

We are all architects; but we often do not know what edifice or idea to which our efforts contribute...

Architecture: Any structure of human creation, tangible or otherwise which produces an outcome or effect. We are all architects; but we often do not know what edifice or idea to which our efforts contribute.

We believe that a Renaissance of ideas is inevitable in the wake of the current digital communications revolution; the excavation and interpretation of these ideas, and their incorporation into a larger body of knowledge will be of paramount importance. We want to be protagonists in the creation, digestion, and promulgation of this historical narrative.

We are committed to providing the Internet community with high quality research and multimedia presentations which investigate the past, present, and future of the Architecture of the environment and of the intellect:

Architecture: Any structure of human creation, tangible or otherwise which produces an outcome or effect. Architecture, in this sense, by virtue of its interaction with the human condition demands investigation into both the motives for creation and the real outcomes on the human living system.

We also believe that as a medium, the written word often plays an a priori and pivotal role in the development, transformation, and communication of thoughts and ideas. We support literary investigations, tangential to the tangible objects of the visual and the spatial, as a means to cultivate ideas from many disciplines.

Architecture, as it is classically understood, is primarily represented by voluminous entities of human creation. Architecture as defined above, and as utilized in the English lexicon has grown to include all manner of designers and creators. There are Architects of war, Architects of peace, and web Architects, just to name a few. The human being is an artistic animal. The avenues for human expression are a manner of construction: material, intellectual, or otherwise.

We are all architects; but we often do not know what edifice or idea to which our efforts contribute.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there...-Eudora Welty

Cool Hunting.

The hyperbolically-titled "bloggers revolution" has changed publishing. Virtually free to publish, the internet phenomenon has created digital publishing, a medium that is simultaneously wholly democratic yet often schizophrenic. Now there's a mag that's unabashedly harnessing the infinite pool of online writing talent into one monthly publication.

SMITH Magazine, launched earlier this month, seems to operate on the age-old adage that "everyone has a story to tell." While once the storyteller had to wait for the reporter to come a-knocking, now he or she can be the interviewer and interviewee.

Features, anecdotes, free-form stories, SMITH Magazine sits on the pulse of today's cultural narrative. Presently a "webzine," its publishers promise to make the leap to print soon; catapulting from the precarious ether of the "blogosphere," and out into the so-called "respectable" realm of printed publishing.

As Scoop Nisker always says: "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own."

SMITH Magazine: Read this month's copy, write next month's issue.

SMITH magazine celebrates a new golden age of storytelling. Smith is our stories, our history, our friends, our celebrities, our moments, our lives. We believe everyone has a story. Everyone is a Smith.

So Why SMITH? We’re seeing revolutionary things happening in the mediasphere today. Online early adopters are creating their own information streams full of news, commentary, entertainment, photos, music, video, etc. They’re creating self-organizing communities based on shared interests. And most important, they are creating and sharing the tools so that anyone can participate with them. This is the dawning of what we like to call Personal Media. It encompasses personal diaries published on the Web and customized TV viewing through TiVo. It’s a new age where content is bottom up rather than top down, aspirational, populist, forward thinking, and most of all, participatory.

So Why A Magazine? Basically, we love print magazines. There’s just something special and intimate about magazines that other media cannot replicate. Our content and design capture that “Web energy,” but in a warmer, less chaotic form. We think there’s an opportunity to connect magazines and the Web in a way that hasn’t been done before — and that’s not just our lips moving. So, take a moment and explore the Web site, we think you’ll start to get what we’re doing here, and why you should want to be a part of it.

Thanks for stopping by,
The SMITH Team

Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight! -Shelley

Gewinner 2005�.

AUSZEICHNUNG ITS Reisen Aktion "Das blaue Wunder" Jung von Matt AG LTU Touristik

 

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are. -Ortega Y Gasset

Resurgence issue 203 - A CULTURE OF SIMPLICITY by Leonard Koren.

# Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete.

# It is a beauty of things modest and humble.

# It is a beauty of things unconventional.

# Wabi-sabi is a nature-based aesthetic paradigm that restores a measure of sanity and proportion to the art of living.

# Wabi-sabi — deep, multi-dimensional, elusive — is the perfect antidote to the pervasively slick, saccharine, corporate style of beauty.

# Get rid of all that is unnecessary. Wabi-sabi means treading lightly on the planet and knowing how to appreciate whatever is encountered, no matter how trifling, whenever it is encountered. "Material poverty, spiritual richness" are wabi-sabi bywords. In other words, wabi-sabi tells us to stop our preoccupation with success — wealth, status, power and luxury — and enjoy the unencumbered life.

# Obviously, leading the simple wabi-sabi life requires some effort and will and also some tough decisions. Wabi-sabi acknowledges that just as it is important to know when to make choices, it is also important to know when not to make choices: to let things be. Even at the most austere level of material existence, we still live in a world of things. Wabi-sabi is exactly about the delicate balance between the pleasure we get from things and the pleasure we get from freedom from things.

# Mud, paper and bamboo have more intrinsic wabi-sabi qualities than do gold, silver and diamonds.

Welcome to the Arts and Healing Network.

The whole globe is shook up, so what are you going to do when things are fallng apart?
You’re either going to become more fundamentalist, and try to hold things together,
or you’re going to forsake the old ambitions and goals
and live life as an experiment, making it up as you go along.

Pema Chodron

A manifestation of the sacred is always a revelation of being. -Mircea Eliade

Link: Discovery: Designing Sacred Space.

...We can enhance our relationship with nature and bring the sacred into our environments by creating a special place to recognize and honor the seasons and life cycles. In the Japanese home it is common to find an alcove called a tokanoma where a scroll and seasonal flower arrangement is displayed. This is not a stagnant display, but is changed with the seasons or family celebration. It serves as a reminder that change is a natural and positive process of life.

Surrounding ourselves with images and objects that have personal meaning can also reinforce the sacredness of everyday life. Symbolic images and objects transform the ordinary into the sacred by reminding us of our past and reaffirming our place in the world. By incorporating into a kitchen or bath design the tile a client purchased on a memorable trip to Spain, we can create an opportunity for them to pause during the day and reflect on their life experiences and relationships...

Always the beautiful answer. Who asks a more beautiful question. -e.e. cummings

Link: The Thread Project: One World, One Cloth.

The Thread Project: One World, One Cloth is "materializing" the vision that we humans can learn to live in compassionate community with one another. Individual strands of threads, from thousands of people world-wide, are being woven into an ambitious work of art, symbolizing unity amidst diversity. The resulting tapestries, some of the most diverse ever woven, offer a moving and compelling visual of the beauty and richness of weaving our differences into a unified whole. The transcendent theme of the cloths implies that we are all tied together and, just as every thread makes a difference in the cloth, every person makes a difference in the world.

There floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air. -Herman Melville

Link: ::Home::.

Welcome to float, West London’s new premier floatation and well being centre.

A haven of peace and tranquillity in the heart of Notting Hill, float features four floatation suites, a holistic exercise studio, complementary therapies and Living Nature beauty treatments.

Each of the four floatation suites at float features its own unique artwork and personality.  Choose from the Cherry Blossom room, the Bamboo room, the Butterfly room and the Dream Time room.

float introduces a range of float-combining treatment offers to allow you to experience the incredible benefits of enhancing your exercise or treatments with a floatation session.  Floatation is generally recommended before complementary or beauty therapies and after holistic exercise but feel free to call and discuss your individual needs.

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Link: UncommonGoods: GUIDE BIRD GIFT SET.

There is a Native American belief that birds are the messengers between heaven and earth. The tiny creatures also happen to have an excellent sense of direction! With this in mind, Susan LeVine designed this inspired set of guide birds. Each morning - or any time you feel the need - close your eyes and choose one of the darling painted ceramic birds. Place it on the green tree plate and let the painted word on its breast be your theme for the day. Each bird represents a different quality, such as “forgiveness,” “peace,” “gratitude,” “courage” and more. A thoughtful gift for a friend - or motivation to help you spread your own wings. Each set comes with 12 guide birds, a tree display plate, and a gift box.

Which has more life?

Which has more life? - The Journal of Good Architecture.

Beauty is objective. Don't believe it? Vote on these comparisons and join the discussion.

This program is based on architect Christopher Alexander's "Mirror of the Self" test, where two objects are compared for their relative 'life'. He asks, "Which is a better representation of your true self?", "Which makes you feel more alive?", "Which has more life?" The idea is that, if we free ourselves of our preconceptions of beauty or "art" by asking penetrating questions, the overwhelming majority of people agree on what makes an object truly beautiful; that beauty is a fundamental, objectively appreciable quality of matter. (You can read more about this test in The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life.)

This program allows you to upload images of two objects or sketch two designs and have the rest of the SimplyBuilding.net community vote on which is more alive. Once a member has voted, she may join in a conversation about the contest. This implementation of the "Mirror of the self" test may be an imperfect variation, nevertheless it has yielded interesting conversation and insights.

It's very easy and fun, try it out!

A collection of the things we love and hate in the buildings around us

The basic idea here, is that the people who live and work in buildings know a lot more about what they need than the developers sipping drinks in the Bahamas, the disillusioned architect scratching geometry on a drafting table, or the frustrated builders who have to put this fractured world together. This Web page was built so that anyone in the world can share the good ideas they've come across, and the bad ones that drain feeling from the world. Why not help us build this list? It will help others make their corners of the world a better place....

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. -mary oliver

AHN NEWS February 2005. and...

jean paul gaultier

pain couture

Poems have the capacity to connect to others when written with honesty and when dealing with personal truths. I found the poems that I used on the heart all connected to each other in a variety of ways and then connected the heart to the reader who might

AHN NEWS February 2005.

Poems have the capacity to connect to others when written with honesty and when dealing with personal truths. I found the poems that I used on the heart all connected to each other in a variety of ways and then connected the heart to the reader who might come upon them.

That we are all a part of the same verse, the universe of words. This poetry that heals and makes us whole. Come, we've been waiting for you. R. Brown

Link: Welcome to the National Association for Poetry Therapy.

For the past 24 years, NAPT members have forged a community of healers and lovers of words and language. We are psychotherapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists. We are poets, journal keepers, storytellers, and songwriters. We are teachers, librarians, adult educators, and university professors. We are doctors, nurses, occupational/ recreational therapists; ministers, pastoral counselors, and spiritual directors. We are artists, dancers, dramatists, musicians, and writers.

We work in many settings where people deal with personal and communal pain and the search for growth. As poetry therapists, we use all forms of literature and the language arts, and we are united by our love of the word, and our passion for enhancing the lives of others and ourselves.

I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance's within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

chi ha paura...? presents Sense of Wonder.

PAULINE BARENDSE - BUTTON TOUCH

'Buttoning or unbuttoning clothes is all about feeling. Your fingers slide over the buttons, controlling them with just the right movements. It is something personal that you don't readily share with anybody else. When another person touches your buttons, there is intimacy - your mother helping you or your lover seducing you. This jewellery is maintained by use - your fingers move over the buttons and the Braille is polished by every touch. Together, the Braille letters form the word 'senses'.

Link: FAQ's about the Creativity Portal (creativity-portal.com).

Since its launch in 2000, the Creativity Portal (CP) has been an inspirational how-to Web resource for artists, writers, crafters, and creativity enthusiasts. It features coaching perspectives, light humor, free projects, insightful articles, and hand-selected instructional Web resources on hundreds of topics to encourage the exploration and expression of personal creativity; and it promotes awareness for unique self-care issues facing creative individuals.