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At first, I understood Indo-European to be a primary language family of the world. I have since unconvered the existence of a wider Nostratic family, also containing Uralic, Vasconic, Caucasian, Tyrsenian and Hurro-Urartian. I previously thought Indo-European (the “Glorious” Tongues) sat alongside “Orientalesque”/Amurian/Mongoloid (the “Conceptual-Abstract” Tongues), encompassing the Native American languages and the “Oriental” languagesContinue reading “The Indo-European languages”

Famous Italian Renaissance poet and scholar Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), or Petrarch, was obsessed with growth. Petrarch is lauded as a founder -no coincidence- of the Renaissance / Rinascimento / ‘Re-birth’, starting with certain esoteric endeavours of his. He was also the founding figure of the scholastic field of Renaissance humanism, and his writing style wouldContinue reading “Laura’s Lenga”

A principal influencing factor for me in the endeavour linked above, Visualising the Spanish language, was the work of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). The intoxicating drama and intricate surrealism of his work complement the evocative forces within the Spanish language perfectly, surely no coincidence. It was so much fun for me to explore his aesthetic onContinue reading “The Importance of Dalí’s Flowers”

“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.” St. Thomas Aquinas ❣️❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎💗❣️ They say life is what you make of it. But on the other hand, so much is decided for us – from our Buzz-Concepts streamlining our thoughts and communication, to political institutions instructing our conduct. St. ThomasContinue reading “Meanwhile, East of Eden”

Coperni created a dress by spraying Bella Hadid’s naked body at fashion week. The tight, white, off-shoulder dress was made for her in real time from instant spray-on fabric, taking less than 10 minutes by people from the company Fabrican. A designer from Coperni then cut the product into shape, shaping the shoulder straps, trimmingContinue reading “Spray-on dress, anybody?”

Perhaps one is wrong to be so intidimated by high fashion models’ reputation for cattiness. Why? Is modelling culture simply a by-product of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti’s legacy, as an artist but also as a legs man, perhaps? To me it seems that his deliberately, carefully ideated, highly distinctive silhouettes are being mirrored so preciselyContinue reading “Model culture”