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…
Tag: noble materials
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…
noble materials: stone (4)
the aqueduct of Segovia, one of the world’s greatest gems of stone construction