Meeting Benches World art in all forms
UNITED COLORS OF MALINCONIA – On winter evenings, watching gardens without keys, while life goes on, between the fingers
AT THE WINDOW – AR Holst: The winter freezes, and the bushes are already blacks. Would light the fire, if you come back, as then, in that old story of the two of us. But I stand at the window, silent and thoughtful. The winter freezes, the years have passed. WEAK LUCERNE – Taqui Mir Mohammad: Sadly the evening darkens; …
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THE GOLDEN CLOUDS ABOVE CHINA: Seven days after the fog I wait, the door of the ten thousand doors, the rain of my memories
LITTLE POEM IN THE MOUNTAINS – By Wu Jun From the slope of the mountains I see coming in the fog, In the middle of the bamboo I see the sun set. The birds from the roof edge rise and take flight, Clouds coming out outside the windows. THE MEN EVERY DAY HOPE TO RETURN – By Xue Dao …
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TEN ISLANDS DANCING: Cape Verde. 500 km off the coast of West Africa, in the wind and the water, dancing with its volcanoes
A CRUISE, VERY SCOTTISH: The Caledonial Canal, with a river boat.
A British Airways flight, your, to Scotland. This is my proposed trip, but do not worry, because I’m a Scotsman quiet, and I have two passions (one small and one large), but only one of them – I hope – is contagious for you. Curious? Starting from the smallest weakness (the non-contagious), I must confess that I like to distill …
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UNITED COLOURS OF HEALTH – You are in pretty good shape for the shape you are in
HEALTH AS A DUTY – Buddha: To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Paul Walker: You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae. Buddha: Without health life is …
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THE CAPRICIOUS GIRLFRIENDS OF THE RUBJEN KNUDE: Dune and wind, light and colors. Welcome to Denmark, enters in Jutland
Welcome to Denmark, I’ll introduce you to a friend of mine – very special, indeed, extraordinary – it never ceases to amaze me. He gives me the sand, meadows and woods, because I do not want to forget (ever) the color of its light. His name is Jutland, and I’m Kirsten, a Danish woman, one that will take you into …
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EAT BLUE CRAB ? EVEN. IN MARYLAND: Sea and sails, but you’re not in England
Oysters and blue crabs, my childhood friends. Do not ask me, too – please – because my parents called me Annapolis call me Anna, simply, and I’ll take you in a few frames of my life in Maryland. Just to start, imagine to land on the beach where the Potomac River came to the sea, because in that place – …
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UNITED COLORS OF THE SEA: Joyful seagulls and fish friends, children playing among the mirrors of light, waiting for the storms, inside sea shells
SEAGULLS – Basho: The sea darkens. The cries of the gulls, are just white. RELENTLESS – H. Melville: Relentless I, the old and relentless sea. Relentless, much more, when serene smile. Welcomed, but not tamed, by thousands and thousands of shipwrecks in me. DISTANT SHIPS – V. Aleixandre: Oh fish …
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GIORGIO ARMANI, AN ANCIENT FEELING: Meet what amazes you, in the suggestion of architectural languages of Bramante, an amazing man, a gift of the Italian Renaissance
I dress Armani, Giorgio Armani, but not because it sets the trend, rather, because the things that he imagines and transformed into clothes, or perfume, they have – at least for me – all an identical feature: tonal, join what I are “inside”, what I want to be “out”. Hello, I’m Michele, an Italian, and I live in Milan, from …
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