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“We are allowed to edit what does not serve us. We are allowed boundaries. We are allowed. We need to allow ourselves to be.
Overall, I want to express that raising children, biological or not, is important and the urgency for generational change has never been needed more. Let’s reintroduce the village.”
-Blakelee Pieroni
Volume I: Over 100 London and Berlin exhibition reviews and interviews by Habib William Kherbek published between 2010 – 2019 Volume II: Reviews written…
Le Radeau de la Méduse (digital painting) Ila Pop (Ilaria Novelli) is an Italian multi-disciplinary artist, she uses different media from oil painting to…
by Audra Lambertfeatured image: Dana Nechmad, “Untitled” (Neshamot Series) Oil and acrylic on canvas, 39.5 x 59″ (2021) On view through February 18th at…
An almost confounding combination of traditional shamanic and high-tech activity by Sofy Yuditskaya Snow Raven is a performer from the Republic of Sakha, now…
Into the Holy Fire, gifts for the Gods are being offered such as herbs and dried flowers. The whole family gathers to dress up The Tree of The World with Rod’s Star at the top, and at the bottom where the World of Weles, God of Underworld and Wealth is represented, the presents are being placed underneath the Tree with his blessing.
It is said that Guqin players can summon spirits, predict the future, and convert the energies of Yin and Yang to their needs, and that the origins of Guquin playing come from Wushi or shaman. From 1644 until 1912 the Quin Emperors had an official shamanic shrine at the capital in Beijing and consulted professional shaman, usually women, in the forbidden city as part of their ruling duties.
Cecilia Wu’s piece entitled “Embodied Sonic Meditation: Resonance of the Heart” captures hand gestures and their fluid changes making mudras via leap motion and machine learning, triggering associated musical phrases and gestures as well as video of the Buddhabrot fractal deformations processed by audio filters also triggered by the mudras.