2020 Advent Calendar [17] – ItWasaRabbit

December 17, 2020

It was a Rabbit is the nickname under which you can find Lora’s work, an artist based in Wilmslow: her Etsy shop is here and I discovered her thanks to ThisThursday’s post about Christmas Cards. The name comes from the omonimous book, «a charming story about not judging on first impressions», but if you’re looking for less educational and more festive stuff (shame on you), you might find solace in the Have yourself a roarsome Christmas card but, most importantly, the Christmas is Cancelled, I ate Santa gift card.

I warned you I would try and do a sort of Advent Calendar recommending you an indipendent artist and illustrator each day till Christmas: I’m not making any promises, let’s see if I can keep this up.

music and theatre

Ma se io avessi previsto tutto questo

Francesco Guccini è stato una figura importantissima per la mia crescita e per il mio sviluppo personale. Sono cresciuta in una casa in cui il rapporto con la musica è stato quantomai particolare, almeno durante la mia infanzia, e l’avevo scoperto grazie all’intervento di due

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Summertime

Paths of the Mirror

Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972) was an Argentine poet, translator, and writer of Russian Jewish descent, and one of the most intense and influential voices of mid‑20th‑century Latin America. Born Flora Alejandra in Buenos Aires, she studied philosophy and literature but left academia to devote herself to

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architecture, engineering and construction

The Universe within a Room

Gaston Bachelard‘s Poetics of Space is the book that gives this week its title, and its central claim, that the house is our first universe, a cosmos before we know the word, is seductive enough that it’s worth resisting for a moment. You know the

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