Athena Parthenos

Ἀθηνᾶ Παρθένος; literally, "Athena the Virgin". The most renowned cult image of Athens.

(...)The statue itself is made of ivory, silver and gold. On the middle of her helmet is placed a likeness of the Sphinx ... and on either side of the helmet are griffins in relief. ... The statue of Athena is upright, with a tunic reaching to the feet, and on her breast the head of Medusa is worked in ivory. She holds a statue of Victory about four cubits high, and in the other hand a spear; at her feet lies a shield and near the spear is a serpent. This serpent would be Erichthonius(*). On the pedestal is the birth of Pandora in relief.

Description by Pausanias.

*  "troubles born from the earth", was a mythological early ruler of ancient Athens. Athena visited the smith-god Hephaestus to request some weapons, but Hephaestus was so overcome by desire that he tried to seduce her in his workshop. Determined to maintain her virginity, Athena fled, pursued by Hephaestus. Despite Hephaestus' lameness, he caught Athena and tried to rape her, but she fought him off. During the struggle, his semen fell on her thigh, and Athena, in disgust, wiped it away with a scrap of wool (ἔριον, erion) and flung it to the earth (χθών, chthôn). As she fled, Erichthonius was born from the semen that fell to the earth. Athena, wishing to raise the child in secret, placed him in a small box.

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Epifanía

6 de enero.
La Epifanía, la aparición de la divinidad, la visión de algo mas grande y mejor que nosotros mismos (que nuestro ego).

Este cuadro es de uno de los pintores que mas me gustan, rogier van der weyden.



El homenaje ofrecido por Los tres Reyes magos, quienes representan los tres continentes conocidos en esa época (Europa, Asia y África) y/o las tres edades del Hombre, al rey de reyes.
Los reyes, siguiendo la luz de la estrella de Belén encontraron a Cristo recién nacido en la humbildad de un pesebre.
El rey mas viejo, Gaspar, representa Asia considerado el continente mas noble dado que ahí esta Jerusalén, el centro del mundo. Gaspar le ofrece oro, símbolo del poder.
Melchor, el rey de mediana edad, representa Europa y le ofrece incienso como símbolo del sacerdocio de Cristo.
El mas joven, Baltasar, África, ofrece mirra* como símbolo de la Pasión y sacrificio de Cristo en la cruz.

*en Egipto, la mirra era utilizada en el proceso de momificacion, para rellenar el cuerpo del muerto y asegurar al fallecido la supervivencia de "millones de años" -una vez que haya sido "justificado" y "transfigurado".

the universal man

"Universal Man" illumination from Hildegard's Liber Divinorum Operum, 1165

Você já tá pra lá de Marraqueche

La historia de estos moleskin zapatos

Amidst a style mind trip, browsing the web and exploring worlds and concepts of both personal style and signification, I came across these vintage shoes -fairly priced. I liked them. That night -or the following- I dreamed I was wearing. So I bought them. A few days passed without news or confirmation of my purchase till I received a cancellation because they were stained. The shopowner and I exchanged emails of apology and domage respectively, culminating in a very kind offer from her to ship them all the same... as a gift.
And here I am, wearing the gifted shoes, like in my dream.

Fantastic w capital F

When there is doubt and uncertainty, there is fantastic art.

Or... in my words :

When in doubt, fantasize.

The underestimated Reality

"Nothing is so fantastically overwhelming as the authentic, nothing so incredible as real reality."
Rainald Goetz

Now,

at the nowness party, Art Basel Miami Beach. Where I realize I dont like the word nowness. it means nothing... literally.