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Samoa: Manono circular time

Manono is small, Round, nice, as pure circular flip walking sounds conclusive cycle, a closed course, they become actions and repeated as the notion of time in East. Speaking of Manono in this way comes to mind unusually Platero.

byLaura Berdejo

10 February, 2025

The anteroom

"Peaceful", he told me over and over. Pacific sounds like salt and an island, to the endless sea and calm forged in water. It is just a word but it speaks to a time of peace and oceans although in the memory of my days, it's a visceral way of yearning; peaceful is almost a violent concept in the love of my steps.

byDaniel Landa

1 June, 2015

Yuanyang, the staggered world

The landscape was a staircase of giants, the rice terraces were broken in green and the old women wore their colors of indigenous pride. We were in Yunnan, the least Chinese of China's provinces.

byDaniel Landa

29 December, 2014

Tokyo, anthill

You might think that in a city where reigns the order and reverence as a greeting, discretion is the usual pattern of its inhabitants, but there, just there, the most disconcerting part of the city begins.

byDaniel Landa

22 September, 2014

Sydney: The Phantom of the Opera

When I was seven I listed what I wanted in life. I can still see written in a fat and twisted: "Having a house and garden, helicopter ride, ir in Australia ... ".

byLaura Berdejo

21 April, 2013

Apolima or chronic Samoan domestic eternity

There was once a life of its own island in the middle of the southern Polynesian. Once upon a time Apolima, Samoan island of the archipelago a horseshoe shape where I could not always get, and where no one could always go ...

byLaura Berdejo

29 February, 2012

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