Tag: art
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The Discipline of Quiet Work: Between Studio and Study
“My real profession is medicine, but I sometimes write (music) in my spare time.” – Anton Chekhov An artist paints in a studio; an academic works at the desk. Both work in silence, slightly out of sync with the outside world. Isolation is not the enemy; more often, it becomes a quiet companion in the…
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Rituals That Outlast Us
Dancing, as an embodied art, leaves no immediate trace. There are no canvases to hang, no poems to print, no manuscripts to preserve. What remains is fleeting: a turn, a rhythm, a shared breath. The aroma of jasmine lingers in the air as winter brushes lightly against silk. As guests enter the palazzo, the chandelier…
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Lohengrin and the Grace of Disappearance
De Animalibus, illustration by author, 2026 There are periods in history which later generations are fast to call dark or stagnated, not because nothing of significant occurred within them, but because what occurred resisted immediate visibility. ‘A foggy period’ one may call; something which is often mistaken for emptiness. Yet in nature, fog gathers only…
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Peter Grimes — On Being Seen from the Shore
Wanderer above The Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich, 1818 There is a kind of solitude that does not come from absence, but from distance. One that is not forgotten nor hidden, yet clearly placed beyond the horizon. Seen to clearly, but never fully recognised. Like a solitary figure on top of a hill surrounded…
Shima Trisna 