Chanoyu is a Japanese ceremony ennobling tea’s centrality in the nation’s culture. The tea ceremony’s procedures effect an esteem for puritanism, emphasizing the simplicity of life. At the dawn of the 20th century, when western imperialism’s yoke jeopardized Japan’s identity, chanoyu emerged as the ballast between the nation’s history and modernity. Japanese nationalists such as …
Really, I should have titled this post “Ridding Weeds 2.0.” I again purged the garden of weeds, but today I was joined by three upperclassmen and three fellow FYS students. While the upperclassmen mingled amongst themselves, so too did the three students apart from myself in the FYS. I pulled alone, uttering not a single …
Chapter 11 of “A Visit from the Good Squad” features the character of Ted, a disenchanted art history professor, conducting a halfhearted search for his wayward niece, Sasha, in Italy. Sasha had fled her home with her then-boyfriend, the drummer of a band, and embarked on a skein of escapades beginning in Japan and culminating …
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Ronny Quevedo’s art gallery exhibit features an oeuvre concerning the demarcation of boundaries. He expressly defines his art through sports, painting and constructing pieces before an athletic backdrop. Quevedo’s works include portraitures of sporting fields and contraptions based on athletic paraphernalia. His paintings of sporting fields are strewn with lines which project Quevedo as a …
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