La briciola squisita

  « Selfie-before-selfie, a self photo on a timer controlled old style regular film camera in front of a blackboard at the high school where I went to school in the 1970s and then taught English for 3 years before I got a job at the US Embassy in 1987 (and only ever returned to teaching at universities in 2000s). The writing behind me is mostly French, from a previous class, because English was facultative, not compulsory, so students came from various individual classrooms and so no one had a sponge to wipe off the blackboard, and I wrote on it in capitals to make the text stand out. Apparently this was about ethnics (I completely forgot what I was teaching 37 years ago), as DUTCH, DANISh (sic), GERMAN and RUSSIAN are discernible, as is POLE (not sure if this was about Polish people, probably) but also SURGEON, CHOOSE and SPLE... behind me, probably SPLENDID and not SPLEEN. » . . additional information: « At the time I hated that small town in Serbia, 50 minutes drive from downtown Be

« I riflessi di luce guizzano sulla bambina, si riflettono sul suo viso, nei suoi occhi e sull’alluminio stropicciato su cui è dipinto un qr code, un codice che come un ponte collega il supporto pittorico a dispositivi digitali. La decodifica svela la parola latina “reflexus”, come un monito a non dimenticare le origini della comunicazione moderna. » . . Luisa Valenzano (@luisavalenzano), Reflexus, 2020, acrylic on cotton canvas, 36 x 20 x 3 cm . . Front: qr code