de croquetas y ‘humanitas’ (2)
Today, the 2nd of April of 2023, I went to see if Carmen, my favourite Spanish restaurant here in Pequín, was still opened. After the tremendous COVID-19 end and beginning…
Category: person and matter
de croquetas y ‘humanitas’ (1)
The idea of creating a substantial post(s) on the subject of food as a noble material in terms of humanitery artisanry is almost as old as the COVID-19 pandemic, going…
write, write, write
Yo ya no voy a escribir nada más (hablando en términos caligráficos) hasta más allá del 5 de marzo, due to being involved right now already in what every year…
Uncial now!
And now, at last, free from the necessary but tediously tight discipline of the Roman Quadrata, having tasted the joy of intuitive calligraphic crafting,… I am delighted to announce my…
retorno a la caligrafía 2
Now roughly one year ago, in November-December 2021, I resumed calligraphy…, only to stop again (the first attempt was roughly SEVEN years ago!). (My recurrent pattern of activity throughout my…
retorno a la caligrafía 1
The nightmarishly surreal month of December 2022 here in Peking (appalling cold outside; more than one month practically confined at home, with just about everybody falling ill, and, yes, including…
one more thing-2: beauty is FORMAL INTENT
Last post today on this deliciously beautiful book, Beauty. Few important artists working today talk openly about beauty as a goal for their art. […] the sincere and unequivocal pursuit…
one more thing-1: beauty IS function
Last Sunday, I still found by sheer chance another relevant quote about form and function from Beauty. I wanted to post it that evening, but, instead, fever struck me in…
takumi
In the West we developed a tradition of almost deifying the artist that ultimately put the artisan aside, basically, to a merely decorative function. But, living in China as I…
form replaces function-2
I can never stop saying that, for me, beauty is number one in whatever I try to accomplish both personally and professionally. The captions from Beauty that I showed in…
noble materials y katachi
There are quite a few books out there entitled Ikigai, but this is the one I did find in the one book store chain that to this day has been…