What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.
Kobayashi Issa - Poems
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Just little time ago I was longing so badly for spring and now here it is and it's like I don't feel it. I do see flowers blooming and the sun seems to get a bit bolder day by day, but the spring carries a sense of severity now, together with its beauty.
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The goddess of nature was Persephone but she was also the queen of Underworld. For six months every year she was allowed to come back to earth and her mother Demeter (goddess of fertility of earth) was so happy that she made earth blooming in her passage, at spring and summer time.
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I imagine the queen of the Underworld walking solemnly and gravely: the edge of her dress touches the ground, that flourishes under her feet.
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I feel I have a new eye looking at awakening of nature. No more longing for the future, our #spring is here and now, and now it's our moment to live.
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Charcoal on paper 21 x 29,7 cm
#portrait study based on a picture of wonderful @jessie.li._ made with #charcoal @cretacoloraustria #pencil @staedtler on @fabriano1264 paper
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‘... Bit by bit, I’ve realized
That’s when I need them
That’s when I need my father’s eyes’
Eric Clapton - My father’s eyes
My father’s eyes were grey and they mercilessly betrayed his shyness. They were his most remarkable body features, together with early white hair and a big belly, round and firm like a watermelon :).
My dad was my encountering with the world: I heard stories of people and of the past from him, the story of his life as a kid was a touching movie in my imagination. I look at his wedding pictures or when he was in his twenties, wearing a tie on a city trip with his friend. I remember I laughed with him about this serious clothes on a simple hangout and his half-laughing, half-embarrassed explanation, claiming it was the fashion of those times.
Today it’s Father’s day in Italy and I send him all my love through the universe that he is travelling, and in my imagination he can feel it.
And it’s like looking again into each others’ eyes, and smile to each other, together again. .
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Charcoal on paper 21 x 29,7 cm
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made with charcoal @cretacoloraustria and pencils @staedtler on @smltart paper
