camminando | Becoming Aware of Pilgrimage in Viterbo, the CIty of Lions, Walls and Clocks | Day 1

While meanderings in the medieval city of Viterbo I have an insight into the meaning of my relentless walking of the past years. While approaching Via San Pellegrino I suddenly realize that I am a contemporary pilgrim. Walking for me has been not only a means of knowing —and experiencing places— but a spiritual practice. Each step is an encounter between my body and the surface of the earth. Walking is an embodiment of the relationship between the self and the world; it is recorded by GPS and superimposed to maps. I find an aesthetic intent in every walk, and the art production is in the cartographies generated by mapping my steps into different representations of the earth surface.
Even the movement sequence "Finding the Axis Mundi" is somehow analogous to the Buddhist prostration.
My pilgrimage in Viterbo has been reconnecting me with the meaning of symbols in the cities. Some of the most recognizable features of Viterbo urban places, have become a meditation on walls, doors, clocks, and...lions. The lion of the city coat of arms is present everywhere:fountains, shrines, corners of palaces. Shall I find meaning in the strength of the lion? Definitely my life path these days is crowded with hyenas and vultures...Porta della Verità is already providing the answer.

camminando | Healing in Roma, October 2015

I Walk, Therefore I Am

And I Heal

Searching and finding meaning while walking on time and history, during my Roman meanderings provides healing —as usual.
Roma's intoxicating beauty gives me comfort.

Giordano Bruno's statue in the site where he was burned at stake 17 February 1600

The entrance of Musei Vaticani, one of my daily itinerary

Piazza San Pietro and the Sunday crowds

Castel Sant'Angelo | day

Piazza del Popolo

Castel Sant'Angelo | night

Practice | Finding the Axis Mundi in the Search for Healing by the Flowing River, at Sunset

Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

vernissages | NYC October 1

Canal Street & Varick, October 1, 7:48pm

 

Robert Wilson "Black & White" at The National Arts Club

 

 

Rashid Johnson “Anxious Men” and  "Richard Pousette-Dart: 1930s", at The Drawing Center

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.