Events | NYC Maker Faire 2015

While I am working the movement infrastructure for Saturday and Sunday performances, the energy of preparation for the Maker Faire brings somehow some comfort. Can making provide healing? Can people be brought together by making? These are the initial thoughts, summarized in such "dense" questions.
Below are few images of an event powered by creativity, excitement and joie de vivre.

Events | New York, September 24: Glimpses of Pope Francis

In a surreal cars empty Fifth Avenue, crowds wait for Pope Francis to arrive from Saint Patrick Cathedral. Finally, preceded by a massive motorcade the Pope arrives waving in the iconic Fiat 500.

Practice | Finding the Axis Mundi in the Roman Ruins, at Sea

 On one of the last glorious days of summer 2015 I am moving to the Mediterranean sea, in the town of Anzio or Antium (V century B.C). The emperor Nero (37-68 AD) was born here and ruins of his Villa stand on the beach.

Practice | Finding the Axis Mundi in Rome

In this particularly unsettling time, I am trying to find a center; being in Rome, the city where I was born and raised, brings focus even when collective histories are woven within my personal memories.
The phenomenological axis mundi of my existing intersects with the celebrated places in Rome, where the "navel of the world", can be found in many different locations.One of the most remarkable axis mundi is the obelisk in Piazza San Pietro. Located at the center of the elliptical square the obelisk function as a sundial, with the faces aligned to the four cardinal points.