Life and Opinions of an Artist ; "A Time For Dreamers"

 I wrote this poem along with a few others while i was a student of literature in the 90's .  I didnt give people i knew a reading because i thought it was probably consideed to be a bit pretentious if i painted and did poetry at the same time ... but it was a natural organic way of being creative ... these ideas just poped out of me alredy formed and even tho i have been reading and re reading them for many years , there isnt much that i have changed in them . The Linden trees are extraordinary in the summer months , and i crossed the piazza d'independenza (square) often . I dont know how this poem jumped out of my head , but i only have a few of these which were well formed before they were constructed.  Guido thought that poetry was too high up and that ordinary people (the likes of us)  couldnt do poetry. But this was to prove him wrong ... poetry does it's own thing. In any case "the secret life of trees" was also a metaphore  ..... ...

I thnk i am about the last person who can say that keeping your priorities brings you happiness and fullfilment. I probably thought that keeping high standards would be easyly achieved, but then i found that if you have an idea of where you want to go ... the rd can have it's ups and downs and that you have to be prepared for those things. Some time ago i discovered the book Texas written by my favorite auther James Mitchner. It comes to my mind in this case as an example of how those stupid priorities can destroy your peace and give you nothing back. Like in the battle of saint Alamo where everyone gets killed. Then on the contrary there is the example  of  the battle with the famous mexican general Sant Anna in which  the Anglosaxons won Texas from the Mexicans.  In Mitchners book he says thar santanna spent the crucial moments in the afternoon (of the day of the battle) sleeping  with his beautiful black woman and in these delicate moments the ot...

Anna Politkovskaya From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Anna Politkovskaya Анна Политковская Politkovskaya during a March 2005 interview in Leipzig , Germany Born Anna Stepanovna Mazepa ( Ukrainian : Га́нна Степа́нівна Мазе́па ) ( 1958-08-30 ) 30 August 1958 New York City , New York , U.S. Died 7 October 2006 (2006-10-07) (aged 48) Moscow , Russia Resting place Troyekurovskoye Cemetery , Moscow Occupation Journalist, writer Nationality Russian [1] Citizenship Russia, United States [2] Alma mater Moscow State University Period 1982–2006 Subject Politics , freedom of the press , human rights , social issues Notable works Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy , A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya Notable awards Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism 2001 Spouse Alexander Politkovsky Children Vera Ilya Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya   Ukrainian ...

When people who care for you, talk to you in your dreams, there is a message in what they are saying.  This is what i learnt through years of  studying my dreams.   I had met Guido in Rome on a rainy day in 1984.  I had come to Rome in order to go to get my passport and was walking around on top of the Colosseo trying to imagine living in the Rome of  antiquity.  Recently I had watched a series on the BBC called "I Claudius".  This series was based on a book written by Robert Graves of the same name. I had other visual sources for my immagination , another film with Marlon Brando in the role of Antonio was the story of Julius Ceasar. I loved the dashing Antonio who was tied up to Cleopatras skirts and who had lost all sense of practical reality. I was thinking about the Roman women and the intrigue which went on at the court.  I thought often of Augustus, the cold and rational man who wanted to rule Rome even a...

If i had known that in 2018 i would have still been under pressure for a regular stay permit in europe , perhaps i would have known better and would have accepted a girl from Berlin who in order to save me from my continuous struggle for my unsatisfactory stay permit .... told me that in Berlin woman were allowed to get married and perhaps this would solve my issues ..... this was in 2004 while i was staying in Viareggio .  Since i am religious and the Abramic religions say that God doesnt like same sex marriages .... i couldnt accept and had to take my chances and  make do with what ever was in the cards ie wait ... however later on i did get a proposal from Jacopo who was ten years younger and who needed  a companion and a friend to look after him.  Everyone  loved his mother Silvia who was a very charming woman who knew how to keep people happy by putting nice food on the table and by telling interessting and  historic stories at the dinner table. In 2...

I wonder if other people have experienced being tracked by the phone you carry or any other card with micro chips in it ? It is a continuous life experience i have had since year 2000 on wards . Tracking has been the reason why i dont have a mobile phone even if i would like to have one .  Another item with tracking is the PC .  I had bought a PC in Dubai which i had to throw away because  of the parasites which followed me around in it ....  later on i discovered it had been recouped and given as a gift to a  black person .  Another PC i bought had the same issue after i had given it to an american  friend to use .... i noticed how she had given it to some one else  ....  this one too meant that i was followed by some people who seriously wanted the PC and knew i was going to get rid of it ....   i threw it into the sea , so that no one who needed it could reach it .  A lot of the tracking has made me throw the things i bu...

"Noor" 1987 translation of surat (chapter) 24, v; 35 Describing God as the light of the heavens and the earth "Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. A likeness of His Light is as a niche (a source that gives off light) in which is a lamp, the lamp is in a glass, the glass is as it were a brightly shining star, lit from an oil of a blessed tree that is neither in the east nor in the west. The oil whereof gives light on its own, even if no fire touches it. (It is) a light upon light. Allah delivers to His Light whom He wills and Allah sets forth parables for mankind. And Allah is All-Knowing of everything." اللَّهُ نُورُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ مَثَلُ نُورِهِ كَمِشْكَاةٍ فِيهَا مِصْبَاحٌ الْمِصْبَاحُ فِي  زُجَاجَةٍ  الزُّجَاجَةُ كَأَنَّهَا كَوْكَبٌ دُرِّيٌّ يُوقَدُ مِن شَجَرَةٍ مُّبَارَكَةٍ زَيْتُونِةٍ لَّا شَرْقِيَّةٍ وَلَا غَرْبِيَّةٍ يَكَادُ زَيْتُهَا يُضِيءُ وَلَوْ لَمْ تَمْسَسْهُ نَارٌ نُّورٌ عَلَى نُو...

Two girls who made a film about my life in the studio in via Fiesolana .  Hanging sculpture 1996  On display in a few exhibits in Florence one of which was with the gallery DEA in Borgo Pinti 1998 One of the best pictures of the hanging sculptures ( 2m x2m)  which my brother helped me paint and prepare in 2000, this was stolen from my garden outside of Torrevieja where i had put it on display in the south of Spain in 2012 Hanging sculpture 1996 Hanging sculpture as a work in progress 1997 in via delle Cinque Giornate The Higgeldy Piggeldy Bag made of coloured iron strings 2015 This bag was stolen from a deposit where i paid a monthly fee to keep it safe. It was on display in the Adzak Art Space in Paris for some months . ...

"The Inshallah Cards" This is a print which i made in the via Fiesolana studio in 1998 Inshallah Cards :  Il Ponte is an engraving printed at Victoria's engraving studio in Piazza Peruzzi  1990  Inshallah Cards Inshallah Cards Dialogue ! In My pictures of Florence with animals , my faithful  life companions  Mooshie and Mooshina inspired me .... 

Paintings by Nilofar Mehrin these are works which i did in the 80's while i was studying literature .... my heart was full of devotion and i felt i had a lot of ideas i wanted to express .  This first image and painting " Extasis "  1987 is about the sweet and salty waters in the oceans and seas never mixing .... this idea came from reading some verses from the Holy Koran : He released the two seas, meeting [side by side] v19 Between them is a barrier [so] neither of them transgresses v20 . So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny? v21 From both of them emerge pearl and coral.v22 Later on i saw a documentory which was on this subject  and indeed there are entire rivers running beneath the waters of the ocean !  I dont have this painting and perhaps i left it in my house in Spain when i came to France in 2013 . "The Here and Now" the painting bellow ...... curtesy of Steven Mathews  ........ is one of the fi...