As a kid, I religiously peeled the skins off grapes first. A bitter foil to the soft fleshened interior to follow, I bit them brief and swallowed whole as a sort of drum roll. That stark of a distinction between the skin and its grape body hadn’t existed again until this day… several decades later. […]
“Geometry is the language of the universe. All of us are interconnected.” Artist, creator, and product designer Javier Gomez transposes mandalas unto furniture. Complex, abstract designs whose focal point emanates into a web of symbols, rays, and forms, the mandala means ‘circle’ in Sanskrit. It demarcates the intimate binding of external and internal realities, […]
Hearts drained of red blood, Sheaths of warmth, love, and sanctity torn viciously like the formal contracts binding humanity. Innocence bewails, as mothers’ babies are stolen away, like the basic right to hydrate, eat and dignity. Crimson that ribboned Israel’s pleasant Saturday, Anchors Palestinians every day, in captivity being […]
