Always Almost To read and listen to this morning. orlyavineri.substack.com Inspired by Amy @unburied_eulogies πŸ™πŸ»πŸ–€
-The partial wall, part 3 of 3 Standing behind the red embroidered veil. My cousin too, the one raised by mother. I was so young and understood nothing, specifically about why I was taken to that tent by my father. Now I understand something. He wa
Come, explore with me: Minimalism, mixed media style, next month in beautiful Whidbey Island in WA, where meadows meet the sea. orlyavineri.com/workshops @pnwas
-The wall, part 2 of 3 Hanging on it by ‘paper tape’: A lion next to another, taking minimal and liminal space, and a dried up, gaping pod, perhaps one seed left in it, from last year’s Golden Rain tree.
-The wall, part 1 of 3 Could it be true about most makers: Makers of films, of written and visual stories, makers of music, and of movement, that it’s often about an unrestrained need to guard a fragile and grieving inner world? About transf
The deepest loss, a stubborn sorrow, often becomes a purpose, a fierce devotion. A beautiful gift to others. And beauty? An effort to learn where people truly ‘come from’, rather than from being harsh commentators, close observers and d
In two weeks Text & Texture in Taos, New Mexico, with @leighannalight and me. And then again, in another place, in the ideal location for Text & Texture, the last time. In January, 2027 Where if not in Oaxaca, Mexico? Come with us.. orlya
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
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