Fontecchio International

20/11/2024

The Balcony Apartment
1-bedroom sublet (1-3 month).

1 bedroom fully furnished artist apartment in the newly renovated 18th century Palazzo Galli. This apartment has vaulted ceilings throughout, a balcony off the bedroom, and a large interior shared courtyard. Consists of three rooms; bedroom with a queen bed and full bathroom, a living room, and a fully equipped kitchen. In the courtyard, just outside the kitchen door, there is an additional outdoor dinning area protected by a vaulted ceiling overhead.

The availability of this apartment is variable as it depends on whether or not formal artist residencies are in process. To inquire about availability, send an email to [email protected]

The Balcony Apartment1-bedroom sublet, available on a 1-3 month basis. 1 bedroom fully furnished artist apartment in the newly renovated 18th century Palazzo Galli. This apartment has vaulted ceilings throughout, a balcony off the bedroom, and a large interior shared courtyard. Consists of three roo...

16/04/2024

Anyone know where this photo was taken??

10/04/2024

Somewhere it must have been said...

Individuals are incapable of creating change.

Be they an individual person or a microbe,
on their own,
not much happens.

Then there's the story of 2 hydrogens that walked into a bar
on a Friday night...
which happened to be the night that oxygen always attended.

Naturally, they hooked up.
The rest of the story is water under the bridge.

moral of the story: relationship is everything.

relationships, literally, construct what we call "reality".

So make some love 💞

24/03/2024

getting ready for this...
slowly uploading more content to my fb artist page over the next week.
drop a word in the comments if you want to tune in 🌱

24/02/2024

A rare new study finds that physical and emotional fatigue might possibly be linked to the hyper individualization effect of capitalism and it’s degeneration of intrinsic human worth in favor of an assumed commitment to the notion that the majority of a person’s living hours be dedicated to monotonous and mechanistic labor for the purpose of sustaining basic living conditions (health care not necessarily included) and the purchase of disposable items that contaminate local and global economies. Further studies suggest that this fatigue might also slightly increase in a context of global events and national elections that hint at the potential collapse of human civilization.

These studies are, of course, very speculative and should be considered with a cautious eye, especially since there exists already a vast repository of literature suggesting that your feelings are simply your own fault. One must be discerning...

18/02/2024

Getting older
you wake up...
ten years have passed
or more
and where?

And little makes sense anymore
but one thing

music.

Somehow, music
keeps making sense

it keeps making and making
and breathing
sense
inwardly

like a spiritual cockroach
the killers of spirit can't kill it

And so, when all seems lost...
there it is,
shining.

- Sending a deep thanks of gratitude to all musicians out there, whatever stage you are at... for making daily bread for us. We keep going, being reborn with the songs we dance to behind the curtains at night.

08/02/2024

"Spinning Napoli"
i was just thinking about this piece that I painted in Naples some years back... it's a big one (210 x 280 cm | 82.5 x 110.2 inches), comprised of nine smaller panels.
It's still in search of it's future owner! 💙

23/12/2023

È stato un dono insolito e sorprendente trovarmi nella posizione di poter ospitare persone vicine e lontane in una casa così bella. A volte sono artisti, provenienti dal Venezuela, dall'Irlanda, dall'India, dalla Repubblica Democratica del Congo, dalla Spagna e dagli Stati Uniti, altre volte sono semplici viaggiatori, più spesso coppie romantiche che esplorano l'interno montuoso e remoto dell'Abruzzo. Mandatemi un messaggio se vuoi saperne di più. Questa è una cosa nuova, appena decollata, una nuova direzione per quello che ho chiamato "The Fontecchio International Airport", un piccolo hub di incroci inaspettati tra persone dalla mentalità creativa. Se hai amici che vogliono visitare, fammi sapere...
Buone feste! 💫🌈💞

23/12/2023

“It was art, frankly, that helped me untangle these stories”

- Hala Alyan

Writer Hala Alyan unpacks our responsibility to examine the narratives we’ve been exposed to with a critical lens.

12/12/2023

only 52 people have seen this...
in 5 years
Tom Sway... a live recording in a boat or a car, i don't know which
(he used to sail himself out to the middle of the San FranciscoBay where no one could hear him
and it's amazing...

Pop song

09/12/2023

08/12/2023

40x40cm, tecnica mista su tela, 2023
parte di una mostra due giorni questo fine settimana
al Fontecchio International Airport
Fontecchio, AQ
😘

08/12/2023

Ancora... 💞

07/12/2023

40x40cm, tecnica mista su tela, 2023

In mostra questo fine settimana al Fontecchio International Airport
Fontecchio, AQ

05/12/2023

COLLECTIVE LISTENING
Part II - Free webinar/community conversation

A couple of weeks ago, in the last conversation, I invited us to consider what might happen if we see and understand listening not as a technique or activity, but a way of being with others. What happens when listening is shared? It's not always easy, but when it happens, it is, paradoxically, effortless.

This online gathering will pick up this same thread. It's open to anyone who wishes to attend. Together we will reflect on the particular qualities that arise when we experience listening as a group process - those moments when we allow ourselves to fall into a state of deeper listening, which invariably becomes a state of deeper feeling - a sense of time slowing down, of greater spaciousness, and, often, a natural willingness to be more vulnerable or transparent in what we share. And then to consider, how does listening operate beyond the human sphere? How might becoming curious about the more-than-human-world of trees, plants… the rich biodiversity of our planet itself might teach us something about listening? (I mean, do we really think trees don’t listen?). In all of this we find something undeniably alive and healthy. We find 'connection'.

Having had the opportunity to experience many different webinar formats, I have found that the most rewarding moments often happen in the exchanges between participants themselves, and how a sense of community begins to emerge through these exchanges. For this webinar, I will begin by sharing perhaps 20 min of reflections of the topic of listening, and thereafter have us break into groups so that participants can engage and listen to one another directly, after which we will reconvene and share our discoveries.

SUNDAY, DEC 10, 2023
11am US Pacific time
2pm East Coast
8pm central European time
Duration: 90min

Message me for the zoom link.

This is the fourth of a free webinar series “Inside the Under”.