Si Vis Pacem...
(If you want Peace...)
Si Vis Pacem...
Four years ago... I happened to found "La Belgo-Criméenne" asbl. Nothing too surprising for those who know me a little, who, more or less, had the opportunity to come across my wanderings, eccentric, in the literal sense.
For the others, I will have the opportunity to talk about it later, provided that you choose to embark on our cross roads...
Association dedicated as well to intercultural exchanges, taking as a pretext of entry the concrete experience of a Belgium-Crimea encounter, as to the defense and illustration of a certain way of being, human, into this world.
Our plan, to use the anthropological experience of cultural exchanges between two parts of the world that occupy a privileged place in my personal cartography, to approach what, still a student, more than 35 years ago, I had baptized "anthropoétique", was brutally stopped even before its implementation by the emergence of the Covid in March 2020 (an event that one day it will be necessary to have the courage and the lucidity to reread as an element of the collapse of civilization now in progress, as it seems to me, but that's another story).
At the very moment, at the end of 2021 beginning of 2022, to finally glimpse the hope of getting back on the road; To this freezing of material, geographical circulations, was added a freezing of mental circulations. A paralysis of all thought. By what strange curse did the world fall over then? Leading the West on a hypnotic march to the sound of war cries!The doors of the labyrinth...
"en construction"
Si Vis Pacem...
Lucid observation or blind indignation.
The first, often stifled by the so-called mainstream media, is threatened with resignation. The second, by its bias, is doomed to exaltation.
In between is commitment.
In humanitarian action, in public speaking.
For what result? Undoubtedly modest but preferable to immobility."
(Hélène Richard-Favre)
Art of Snark
"We must not play with artistic forms, we must transform life in such a way that it formulates itself." (Nietzsche)
Under the name "Art of Snark", you will find a multidisciplinary Workshop of Crafts and Art (we do not make a difference) and a Gallery (for the moment virtual)...
Le soleil se lève à l'Est
- (The Sun Rises East) -
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." (Antonio Gramsi)
Five in the Eyes
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (Orwell)
"Nicodemism", in its broader sense, today covers an attitude of dissimulation, a fear of asserting one's opinions, so as not to 'have problems'." (Anne Morelli)
Nor'Vast Passage Society
"But for me, it is an aptitude of my sensitivity, the aptitude to sense the diverse, that I establish as an aesthetic principle of my knowledge of the world." (V. Segalen, Essay on exoticism.)
Peace must be shared...
It's even absolutely essential! Find here a few signs for the treasure hunt... to take your exploration further, and, who knows, come for a bit of the road with us...
Sincerely hoping that our paths, one of these days, could cross... for real...
If the heart tells you, don't hesitate...