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catching fire
It is sometimes inadvertently that a revolution takes place. An effect of extreme gentleness, barely different from other moments, and then life suddenly catches fire, is ablaze. But burning with inexplicable gentleness. A volte una rivoluzione avviene inavvertitamente. Un effetto di estrema gentilezza, appena diverso da altri momenti, e poi la vita, all’improvviso, prende fuoco,…
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after we are gone
He said one day he got up the nerve to ask a Mennonite bishop why rubber tires were forbidden. The bishop answered Klaas’s question with a question: “When do you start raising a child?” According to the bishop, Klaas told us, child rearing begins not at birth, or even conception, but one hundred years before…
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parlavamo
What follows is a text I wrote to capture some sense of the conversations that Igor, Moreno and I were having about S’ABBA in April 2025. – Simon We’ve been talking a lot about movement. The movement and flow of air, light, ideas, people, communication, friendship. The ways in which the space might transform with the…
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il fuoco
Following on from the post forno-improvvisato here are some ideas from Anil Dash about the nature of fire that resonate with our plans for S’ABBA and the potential of building – and cooking with –a wood-fired oven. This one in particular strikes a chord: Depending on the species, and the dimensions, each log in your fire…
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