12 Dec 2019
Tbilisi, Nights, 2019
The night here is a whirlpool: it gets sucked down the scenography of a city that does not show you anything stamped in its crooked walls: in Tbilisi all the fun is mostly underground, be it a classical music concert, an experimental electronic venue, a hip hop performance, an improvise party on a hill, a hard techno event, a funky disco night, an unexpected and extraordinary meeting up to the room of an overprice hotel with who could have been the one for the rest of life, a soulmate connection under the balcony vines, a friendship cultivated on the cracks of empty alleys, a pleasant winter re-encounter, a grotesque showcast of liveless spirits, a sad reminder of social divisions, a boring bar, an unexpected joint, obscure wines...
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9 Dec 2019
Kazbegi, end of March, 2019
I am deeply attracted to alleys, to secondary roads, to forgotten and shabby spaces, free from the petty influence of mass tourism.
Near to Gudauri, repaired from the luxurious ski resorts and hidden on the back of Kazbegi, the precious mecca of mountain lovers and internet likes, there is *** a village in almost total isolation in a marvellous gorge, surrounded by towers that are now fragments, behind gigantic peaks covered in snow and wrinkly pastures.
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3 Dec 2019
Nagorno-Karabakh, early june, 2019
Where is the hidden paradise?
Even if the war will devour it
it will rest at peace
in front of us
waiting
for the pomegranates.
Georgia is the gate of entry to places yet little known and understood: perhaps due to the gigantic mountains, due to the conflicts, due to insourmontable political and cultural differences, due to excessive propaganda, due to miscommunication issues, due to the sovietic inheritance that only Russia appears, in her imperial calculus, to know how to administrate and stir, due to the isolation…
The factors are many: The Caucasus is still a region that lives by the fade shadow of the cold war, it nourish an ambiguos relationship with the big powers who surround it: men is able to generate damage without scruples, specially in the less accessible places.
Up to day three are the conflict areas: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh
I decided to go, in company of a special person in Nagorno-Karabakh, just to do, as she would say, “a weekend stroll”
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21 Nov 2019
Tbilisi, first half of November, 2019
Far from the monumental avenues of the city center, from those other avenues that connect the outskirt of the city, a web of small road are interconnected: they compose sub-neighbourhoods: micro-cosmos.
Near the office where I work, in Nazaladevi – the name means taken by force – so in the area that was taken by force there is a small residential areas that constitutes a modular reality.
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19 Nov 2019
Tbilisi, early October, 2019
..mission failed to a kakhetian adventure: came too late to the marshutka.
I discovered the samgori bazaar: after the one in Station Square this one is quite special.
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