1.
33, 11 and 4 — photography by Carlos Gross
From the Community
Back in October, I went on a retreat that was organised in collaboration with Concord Institute and Coraçao Medicina in Lisbon, Portugal. I had a few hours to spend in the city before my flight home, which I spent wandering around the Lx Factory. There, I met Carlos Gross in his studio - a Swiss property developer by profession, and a passionate photographer at heart.
I sat and spoke with him for about 45 minutes, and he generously shared with me his father’s love for photography and how he still uses the film camera he inherited from him. He shared with me the stories behind each piece of work that I took an interest in and I was so deeply touched by his life and how he sees the world.
We all want to share our humanity, and our creative self-expression is what allows us to do that.
2.
Walnuts in Nangarhar — a poem by Zohra Saed
From the Internet
Walnuts in Nangarhar
That time
in Aagam when father, a child then, picked
fresh walnuts with the mountain girls;
they showed him the fleshy green
skin over shell & nut he rubbed
on his lips & cheeks, giggling.
The girls circled around him, clapped
in unison & teased. In a hand mirror,
he saw himself stained pink,
a delicious trick that kept
its color a full week—
That time
so long ago, in the
season of walnuts.
- Zohra Saed
I felt moved to share this poem with you, for its simplicity and innocence. Maybe there’s symbolism and deep meaning here that I’m missing… but to me, it’s a moment of delight captured in poetry and language.
And then there will be the next moment and the next…
3.
On Time — a quote from Jenny Offill
From the Library
“And then it is another day and another and another, but I will not go on about this because no doubt you too have experienced time.”
— Jenny Offill
BONUS
There’s a pig 🐷 in this post! Let me know if you see him!
I see the pig!
always lovely curation Raphy x