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…

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…

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…