Throwback Thursday. A sweet memory appeared. From when I visited my beautiful friend Katie’s home then, by the Tahuya River in WA. This was her old garage/ storage/ studio/ library/ greenhouse. No car parked. A whole world onto itself, a
What She Is Not New this morning On orlyavineri.substack.com To read and listen to Come visit me there I’d love that. 🀎🩡🀎
At 18 participants, Leighanna, @leighannalight and I have filled our retreat in Taos, NM, taking place in a couple of weeks. If you’d like to join us for Text & Texture but couldn’t make it AND are enthused by the idea of spending s
Tell me, are you like me? Do you dream of ‘owning’ an old, worn out piece of paper that is not yours? Clearly and anciently, of another? That is seen on a table very near you and is tempting you each time you pass by? Can you fall in
So soon.. Will you join us? orlyavineri.com/workshops
A cover of a ‘Passport Journal’ made by Alex’s @alexcastroferreira7770 beautiful mother, Sylviane Suzane Jung. No matter what the content is or the title I come up with for a workshop, when I go out to teach, or stay in, I come as
Sweet collaboration. It’s hers and the second is mine. Alex’s @alexcastroferreira7770 new book, processing still new, still very raw, grief. My old book, demo’ing a transformation of visual processes into emotional movements.
My ancestors’ intense calm, Romanian. I remember it from back then, and witnessed it now in my visit, so strongly. In them, in me. A selection from I Am Another, by Svetlana Cârstean, a Romanian poet: “the grownups talk about wa
She says: When are we gonna meet? I say: After a year and a war She says: When does the war end? I say: The time we meet -Mahmoud Darwish
Mămăligă New on orlyavineri.substack.com
Spread thin and wide. Romania
In Bucharest and on the way to Sinaia, on the cusp of Transylvania, and incremental transformations.
It’s a flying day today, to another side of the world. The side of the ancestors. In this case I can do without the journey. Give me the destination.
New on orlyavineri.substack.com this morning to read and listen to: It’s More Complicated Than That πŸ™πŸ»πŸŒΈπŸ€Ž
Two offerings in June and July have a couple spots available. Would you join us? Link in bio orlyavineri.com/workshops
These are the beautifully adorned hands of my ‘sister’ of exuberant emotions, @alexcastroferreira7770 She takes me to magical places and I am grateful. In a couple days I’ll be traveling to Romania where Alex is taking me next.