Between pretentious works of art and desperate giocondonese tourists, hides the peaceful experience of a traveler surrendering to every impeccable detail, every glorious setting, every attentive character, every imposing texture and colour and every moving chiaroscuro of Le Louvre's oh-so-breathtaking collection, era by era.

Oh! Dear traveler, do dare to surrender!

Welcome to the streets of Hanoi. Where the deep thrusting voices of Vietnam sing their soulful Hymn of Love and Pride, to remind every traveler the chaotic Art of being alive.

The temples and palaces of Laos were never the same after a century of colonization française, orchestrating an oh-so-breathtaking architectural heritage all its own.

“In the true mad North of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.”


― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind.

Even so this,
Outshining and o'erwhelming Edifice
Fools our fond gaze, and greatest of the Great,
Defies at first our Nature's littleness.
Till, growing with its growth, we thus dilate
Our spirits to the size of what they contemplate.

-Byron, Childe Harold, IV 158.

Después de haber encontrado una mina de plata, Juan de la Borda levantó este templo en agradecimiento a Dios.

"Cuando Dios da, hay que dar a Dios".

El barroco novohispano para agradecer a los Cielos.

With a palette of vibrant colors recalling desert, sylvan, and urban hues all at once, Gretel Joffroy reveals an internal world in constant evolution. Her thick brush-strokes create crowded, erotic spaces of powerful feminine forms, emancipated from her own effortless style and graceful existence.

More than 2,000 years ago, the holy city of Monte Alban was home to over 30,000 zapotecs.
Today, this hilltop heritage is visible from anywhere in the central part of the Valley of Oaxaca and it is estimated that only about 10% of the site has yet been uncovered.

Desde hace quince años, todos los días a excepción de los domingos, Don José corta el cabello en la calle Noviembre, en un horario de diez de la mañana a ocho de la noche. Las personas de su barrio lo nombran el peluquero de preferencia. Todos los días, en la misma calle, en el horario de siempre, a las personas de su barrio, a excepción de los domingos.

Welcome to a coin-operated journey of mechanical art. From turn of the century hand cranked music boxes to telepathic wizards, this is a trip down memory lane.

The Musée Mécanique of San Francisco.

Vive la nostalgie !