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Stalker: the weight of faith on the road to the Room

Tarkovsky's Stalker opens like science fiction and ends as a study of belief. A reading of the Zone, the silence and the Room that is never entered.

13 November 2026 · 7 min read

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Horizontal bands of equal size stacked on a light ground, a few of them slightly shifted; an abstract, text-free composition that suggests repetition and small deviations.

Paterson and the poetry of the ordinary day

13 November 2026 · 6 min

A square split into two halves, one filled with cold white lines and the other dark and empty, with a thin cut running through the middle; an abstract, text-free composition suggesting separation.

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Severance: separating work from life, surgically

13 November 2026 · 6 min

Five vertical columns side by side, each a different height and linked by thin lines; an abstract, text-free composition suggesting a network of institutions.

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The Wire: reading a city through its institutions

13 November 2026 · 6 min

Dark rectangles of different heights leaning on one another, with an empty pale space above the tallest block; an abstract, text-free composition suggesting a vacant seat of power.

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Succession: family, power and money

13 November 2026 · 6 min