“It’s about human imagination and curiosity. What’s out there? What’s in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can’t see with our five senses?” – James Cameron, Screenwriter, Director, Producer Buenos Aires – I don’t know why it didn’t click in my mind when the waiter was trying to explain to us the origin… Read More Come to Your Senses!
“Let us call up the spectacle of a totem meal … The clan is celebrating the ceremonial occasion by the cruel slaughter of its totem animal and it is devouring it raw – blood, flesh and bones. Each man is conscious that he is performing an act forbidden to the individual and justifiable only through… Read More Lunch Therapy
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.” – Christopher Columbus, explorer Buenos Aires – I know, you’ve been waiting for it. It’s not like I could take a class in various techniques and not try them out here and there. No worries that… Read More Grasping for Air
I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it … I always want to see the third dimension of something … I want to come alive with the object.” – Andrew Wyeth, American realist painter Buenos Aires – As I mentioned last week, our cocina de vanguardia class… Read More Textures
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I’d look like without plastic surgery.” – Joan Rivers, comedienne Buenos Aires – So there we were, two days later, looking at a narrowed, elongated version of Sucre, with lower height ceilings. You could tell the same thought process went into the design of… Read More Fraternal Twin
“Believe me, General, nobody loves your glory as much as I do. Never has a Chief paid more glorious tribute to a lieutenant. At the moment it is being printed, a telling of your life done by myself; being faithful to my conscience I give you all that you deserve. I say this so that… Read More Gimme some Sugar
“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” – Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Buenos Aires – What to do when there are competing themes for an… Read More Theme Wars
Oh Fatherland, Fatherland, Show us the sign Your children have waited to see. The morning will come When the world is mine. Tomorrow belongs to me! – Chorus from Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Cabaret Buenos Aires – Recently I’ve decided it’s time to get back into theater mode – I mean going to as opposed… Read More Tomorrow Belongs…