I wanted to write something deep,
but your eyes are only blue: that color
of October oceans or the clear skies
of May, though not so fathomless.
Your gaze holds more these tidal pools
reflecting August’s rain-thirsty heaven
and flocks of greedy gulls. Knowing
them to be too shallow, too warm, I plunge
into the petulant surf, while you take the high path
through the woods that breaks onto the bay,
seeking sun-warmed stones as you will,
as you always do. We leave the beach
to the tourists, mostly, until those winter days
we share the shore, alone together,
looking out upon the ice-blue depths.
Maria Aladzhova’s interview with the designer Sasa Kovacevic
This week’s artist is the designer Sasa Kovacevic. Born in Serbia, Sasa says his innovative work is inspired by the Balkan cultures and other nations and traditions. Sasa studies fashion design in Berlin and is working on his latest collection “I’m a good socialist.”
He was a finalist in last year’s “Designer for Tomorrow” competition presented by Mercedes Benz Fashion Week- Berlin 2009, where he presented his collection “Lapot.” Proof of his creativity and talent lies in the fact that he also designs costumes for theater, contemporary dance productions and films.
In 2006 he started his own label Sadak, which holds a strong ethnographic tie to the traditional attire of Kovacevic’s motherland of Serbia. SADAK draws connections between fashion, contemporary art and tradition. Sadak includes the collections “I’m a good socialist”, “Lapot” and “Klephtis”. For more information go to sadak.de
Your love for fashion was inspired by the traditional Serbian costumes. Do you see your Serbian roots in the clothes you make?
Most of my work is rooted in Balkan/Yugoslavian/Serbian culture but it is also influenced by different cultures and traditions.
Do you think that Eastern Europe culture is beginning to take over the fashion world?
“To take over the fashion world” is a big statement, but I would say that there are a significant amount of designers coming from Eastern Europe who are creating and participating in a new wave of fashion.
Borges – always a free thinker – at no time espoused Christian theology, but did regard one of Christianity’s foremost theological poets as having authored ‘the apex’ of all literature – namely Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), whose Commedia continues to be studied, and is regularly translated, by other writers. Dante composed his Commedia in three parts – Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso – in a verse form called terza rima (groups of three eleven-syllable lines whose rhyme scheme is aba bcb cdc etc.). The Inferno is a description of Hell, into whose successive circles various categories of sinners are consigned, and remain eternally. The Purgatorio deals with Christian Purgatory, which Dante conceives as a mountain of circular ledges, reserved for repentant sinners. Topping this mountain is the Earthly Paradise – the Paradiso – Dante’s vision of an aesthetically perfect world. Read on →
Jude Lally speaks with an honesty we could all live by, an honesty that threads us together regardless of our experiences, shared or not. Through his words, we are given a view of what it is to navigate through doorways sometimes difficult for our passing, yet do it over and over again even though we lose a little skin and patience.
We are shown that, to continue, is all we have to do to move on to the next space. And even though gravity becomes heavier the more we are aware of its presence- the bump in the night that suddenly manifests as a ghost standing in front of us- that it cannot stop the day from coming or our way through it.
I know I’m near.
Not so bad as some.
Here, I mean. Here ― whatdoyoucallit.
Wait, it will come.
I wanted to die in my own little head;
but after the ― clock?
No… stroke!
Stroke of midnight, that’s how I got there.
Here, I mean, to the Test Home.
I couldn’t do for myself anymore.
All the chopping and meaning was too much.
And then it went thump in my head again. Read on →
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