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New-Byzantine Iconstasis: An analysis of street art Mar 11, 2024
March 11, 2025
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The essence of a Byzantine icon is significance - the
signature - the meaning. Not in terms of content, like language, but in
terms of ontology, like tone. Icons protect, heal, destroy - you
beseech specific saints for specific needs in a system
of signs.
And this?
Figurative elements (an…
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3rd ave and Seneca
January 9, 2025
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I saw a man reading Proust on the bus. It was the 3rd volume. He was near the end where Baron de Chalrus becomes at once more mercurial and persistent. The man was probably in his sixties. He wore clothes that, although fresh, seemed surfaced with age. As if the…
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low season
January 7, 2025
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(February 14)
How many steps does it take to haunt a street? How many hours pacing back and forth - waiting - longing - until a piece of you takes up residence? The ghosts of Lisbon waft off the Ruas with the incense of petrichor - a brief drizzle enough…
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