Let's continue with the Christmas-themed fairy tales, in our most magical column.
We talked last time, that what we really like about Christmas is that special atmosphere. And the indissoluble hope that on that night between December 24th and 25th, something special will happen to us. It all comes from the night that the very…
Although it is not really a fairytale in the strict sense, it is a wonderful tale, handed down over the centuries, which forms the basis of the current beautiful period we are entering.
Christmas.
The very concept of the "magic night", "holy night", "silent night" revolves around the fact that in the night between December…
The Blue Drop Cafè:
Today on Menu: Panettone or Other Christmas sweets
Time to start thinking about how best to spend peaceful holidays, for all that is possible.
Time for The Blue Drop Cafè to focus on days full of food and sweets, among the most identifying of the year. When a food identifies a…
Beautiful, ethereal, sweet, mysterious, small, hidden.
When you think of a fairy tale, the word itself refers to "fairies".
Bright, naughty, immersed in the natural world. It is not even clear whether they are good or bad. "Bad" meant in a more naughty meaning. It really depends on the country from which the tale or…
The dream is one of the first manifestations of our unconscious. This is a well known thing.
Things we want, things we fear, things we want to remove and forget. Not even the unconscious knows exactly whether its valence is positive or negative.
We know we dream.
Many seeds of our fantasy, however,…
The Blue Drop Cafè:
Today on Menu: Asparagus or Artichokes
The triumph of genuine food.
Elegantly seasonal, but also well-chosen details to create interesting still lifes.
But why are still lifes so popular? Perhaps due to their "laid table" aspect that makes us want to get our hands on it and gives us…
Daniel Maclise, "A Tale of a Winter's Night", 1867
Since this is a column that has fairy tales as its theme, I would say to start from where it all begins.
When a story is told.
Yes, because before the narrators began to compose the books, the fable was transmitted orally. In the countryside villages, where…
The Blue Drop Cafè:
Today on Menu: Hot Chocolate or Coffee
Two hot drinks, restaurants, comforting: dark and enveloping. But with a totally different taste. From the consistency and also from the different potentials.
When you drink coffee: always, summer and winter, it gives us a boost and makes us work. It acts…
If sensitivity changes with the seasons, I wonder what sensitivity means in the autumn season. And I'm not just talking about how you live it. I'm talking about how it is represented through art forms.
The seasons are a natural fact and although some tend to deny them, they will continue to exist as…
EIKON KLAO
Literally "I break an image"
Hence the word "iconoclasm". A word with a noble, fascinating sound, with the elegance of the final "cout".
If you try to pronounce it you will realize how harmonic it sounds.
A word with negative energy towards what is considered dangerous, inconvenient, unsuitable: an attack on something else.…
Everything in life is mystery.
Everything is illusion, everything is a dream.
<<We are made of the same stuff that dreams are made of >> (this is from “The Tempest”)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The Echo into the Mirror.
I have always adored this type of suggestion, these emblematic phrases that they…
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7 inverses2 , 2018, wooden frames with earth dust and reclaimed cement dust on Hahnemühle paper on panels in natural and painted wood 7 elements, each 115 x 115 cm Photo © Agostino Osio
Words are important. They express concepts, suggest sensations, open memory, start ideas. Such as "Infinity in…
