Posted in Architecture, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Kuwaiti Diaries, Photography, tagged Beit Al-Bader, Beit Al-Badr, Kuwait, Kuwait Beaches, Kuwait Chalet, Kuwait City, Kuwait Towers, Middle East Architecture on January 24, 2010| 2 Comments »
House in the 'Beit Al-Badr' complex, in the old part of Kuwait City. January 2010
As they used to say in old time radio ‘ This concludes our series’.
Traveling begets traveling, and the only cure for the invariable melancholia that follows a return home is to plan the next escapade.
Goodbye Kuwait
The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page.
Saint Augustine
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Kuwaiti Diaries, tagged architecture in the desert, Camels, Desert, Desert sunset, Kuwait, Middle East, Nature Photography, Palms, piante grasse on January 21, 2010| 3 Comments »
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Kuwaiti Diaries, Photography, tagged al souq, arab market, cloth, colors, fabric, keys, Kuwait, market stalls, Middle East, mubarakiya, old markets, perfumes, sepia photography, spices, vendors on January 2, 2010| 4 Comments »
The local ‘Souq’ is called Mubarakiya, named after Mubarak, a leader who was the sheik (‘shehk’, family ruler) from the Al-Sabah family, which is still the ruling family of modern Kuwait. Kuwait combines ancient tradition with a democratic political system (Parliament), and is a melting pot of past and present, as I was able to see in the Mubarakiya.
Kuwait | The Present and The Present
Posted in Architecture, Kuwaiti Diaries, Photography, tagged Al Boom, art photography, Asia, Boats, Islamic Architecture, Kuwait, Middle East, Photography, Ships, Travelling, Vessel on January 1, 2010| 1 Comment »
Lights from Kuwait City. Just before the new year, overlooking the Arabian Gulf.
Happy New Year.
I welcomed 2010 on a beach, overlooking the Arabian Gulf.
In Italy we say that what you do the first day of the year you will do all year, and I would love to continue doing art -and posting it- all of 2010. I am in Kuwait for the holidays and, feeling like a foreign correspondant, I offer these sights. I do not have my usual computer- and Photoshop, so here are these images, raw, unedited, uncropped, uncaptioned. I hope you will enjoy them.
This is the Al-Boom and surrounding areas, my first sighting of Kuwait and its history. It is also called the Hashemi, a recent reproduction of the ancient vessel (Kuwaitis were sea-people, like my father, merchants and pearl collectors).
The Al- Boom is the biggest man made vessel constructed out of wood , its interior is used as a reception hall. I found it magnificent, and the details were exquisite, something to revel on.
Kuwait/ Hidden Eden/ Pearls in the Shell
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