Posts in LIFE & CULTURE
MY LIMINAL SPACE IS: THE SUBWAY

Below Milan’s polished streets lies another city made of echoes, flickering lights, and strangers in motion. Between departures and arrivals, the subway becomes a space where time folds, and the self dissolves into movement. A fleeting threshold between what has been left behind and what has yet to arrive. Where the city shows its most authentic side, and so do we. 

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The Weight of Wanting to Become

We are creatures of thresholds craving permanence, yet our only constant is change. We long to arrive, yet the act of arriving empties the arrival of its meaning. Once the thing we awaited becomes ours, the waiting itself dissolves, and with it, a certain aliveness. Hence, we look again toward the next horizon, the next job, the next version of ourselves. As the queue advances, we step forward.

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Providence

His poetry sprung life upon the dead, yet his venomous lust dictated a much darker plot. Indulgence lingers on the verge of creation, crowding the spaces between control and surrender. Who will bear the consequences?
As the car turns, fate unfolds. In the end, we all turn.

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Fatal Attraction

Act 2 of “Sex Lullaby - The Ethereal to be a Daily Chore”. A conversation with Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo. I want to tell the story of when we were alive: the desire for romantic intimacy, coming to terms with higher levels of anxiety, shame and stigma. Lilith. My angry love, an unsearched-for tenderness. The revelation of my softness.

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A thank you note to my wrinkles

As you grow older, certain consequences are associated with sitting in the sun too long — and they tend to show up in the form of creases on your skin. Wrinkles have had women obsess over their looks for centuries, making them question their beauty and worthiness. But is it all that bad, that you don’t look 16 anymore? Here’s why I think the answer is no.

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Distant Intimacy

Casual sex: an opportunity for silent communication. A sadistic and sweet game that plays with the tangible distance of the other self. External perception, desire, discreet seduction.  All in a pink little box I tenderly whisper to. Let’s reveal why we want the ethereal to be a daily chore.

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Libera Me

Life is filled with absences, with voids. Death is an alive concept that coexists in everyone’s daily lives. Pain, fear, anger, loneliness, madness, faith, vanity, melancholy. Libera Me evokes a sense of peace. With his Requiem, Verdi helps us understand the certainty that as long as there is death, there is life. In the end, it is worth living.

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Parole Parole Parole

Everyday we talk, we conversate, we communicate. Everyday we use words. Nevertheless, the symbolic language with which we express ourselves is a mere invention, and as such confined by our imagination. So, I wonder, if the words we use to communicate are bound to remain in limbo, why do we continue to talk obstinately?

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I'm Lucky. A Bird Pooped on My Head

Superstition is deeply rooted in society. Knocking on wood and having lucky pens for exams are both examples of such irrational behaviors. Even if we know that such rituals may not increase the probability of our desired outcome, we refuse to give them up. Can we scientifically explain our irrationality?

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