About: miti aiello

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I am an artist, an educator, a poet, a designer and, sometimes, an architect.

Posts by miti aiello:

• February 24, 2025 Basement Poets’ Café

• October 30, 2024 Watercolors in twenty twenty four

• March 4, 2024 In Times of War – A Poem About Moving {Across the World}

• October 20, 2022 Seeds

• December 2, 2020 Fall Watercolors

• November 6, 2020 A New Series : Spirit Trees

• November 5, 2020 Drawing with Scissors and the Making of an Artist

• October 2, 2020 A (hard) Summer of Art {What I Know Now }

• May 26, 2020 Poetry in the Time of…

• March 24, 2020 Art at the Time of Covid-19

• January 25, 2020 Chagall and Krishna {all the rest is white noise}

• January 6, 2020 Dispatches from Istanbul {First Architectural Sketches on my Ipad!}

• January 2, 2020 A Year in Sketches ( the world begins anew each day )

• April 27, 2019 A Poem to New York { After the Fact|The Long Goodbye }

• January 26, 2019 Jazz @ The Handlery

• November 6, 2018 Daydreams and Window Light @ Way Art Yonder { Finished Journal ❤️ }

• October 20, 2018 “Daydreams and Window Light” – by Roxanne Evans Stout { advanced visual journal techniques }

• September 29, 2018 After the Angel { From The Logorrheic, and I’m on a different playlist }

• September 26, 2018 Summer 2018 { A Postcard from Calabria }

• July 17, 2018 Venezia Notturna

• July 3, 2018 An Afternoon Way Art Yonder { where I find my people}

• June 30, 2018 Jazz, Amelie, Architecture & Art { Spring Summary}

• June 13, 2018 A Day of Architecture and Art in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico {Sketchnoting}

• June 13, 2018 A Day in Los Angeles {Getty Villa and Eames House}

• April 19, 2018 Pink Sunsets and Sunrises { Watercolors and Zentangles in the Bay of the Angels}

• March 24, 2018 L.A.nguid / February Watercolors

• February 16, 2018 Art is a Way of Being

• January 2, 2018

• January 1, 2018 Tiny Portable Stories from New York {In Praise of Bookstores}

• December 16, 2017 One Hundred Years of Solitude {An Italian brings music to Macondo}

• December 5, 2017 Café Chloe Confessional

• November 28, 2017 A Love Letter to Mexico {City}

• August 12, 2017 Tribute to Puebla, México 

• April 28, 2017 Beautiful Thinking

• April 27, 2017 Pomegranate Sky {April is Poetry Month and there’s still time} 

• March 12, 2017 Three Poems and a Song on a Full Moon Night 

• March 10, 2017 Signs Abound 

• March 9, 2017 Luminous Paths 

• March 6, 2017 Love is On | Or When the Rose Showed Its Thorns in the End

• February 23, 2017 The Eyes of the Poet 

• February 23, 2017 Back to the Drawing Board

• February 20, 2017 Messages and Patterns {Deep Attention}

• February 19, 2017 The Trees Wispher

• February 18, 2017 From the Moroccan Pavillion {Milano Expo 2015}

• January 10, 2017 F come Farfalla {Yo Soy La Mariposa}

• January 9, 2017 Must Be Milano 

• January 3, 2017 Flâneuring in a Medieval Italian Town 

• January 2, 2017 But don’t take my word…

• January 2, 2017 Venus is a Planet, Not a Star

• January 1, 2017 Venezia 

• December 15, 2016 We Woke Up to Fog Today 

• November 15, 2016 No-One Is Coming to the Door {this is not a movie}

• November 12, 2016 Elections 2016 {Divided States of America} 

• November 7, 2016 September in Little Italy, San Diego

• November 4, 2016 Coming Back {Halloween and Diwali} 

• June 21, 2016 The Moon | La Luna { before and during the Solstice}

• June 19, 2016 Sisters, the Summer Solstice

• June 15, 2016 Cafés, Books and Roses {and a poem to Tijuana}

• April 27, 2016 Dispatches from Baja California {water|cacti|ranchos|stars}

• March 23, 2016 An XRay of My Brain {Five Years Later and Writer Update}

• January 18, 2016 One Day You Will Realize These Were the Sweetest Nights

• January 18, 2016 New Year {Completions and New Beginnings}

• January 2, 2016 Winter Nights, California

• January 1, 2016 Happy New Year

• December 28, 2015 New Domain Name! :D

• December 26, 2015 Christmas Gifts {Found Collages and a New Image}

• December 21, 2015 The Last Nudes

• November 18, 2015 San Diego Loves Paris

• November 13, 2015 One Painting in Search of Orientation {and Identity}. And a Poem.

• November 11, 2015 Happy Diwali! { The Festival of Lights}

• November 11, 2015 On the Drawing Board

• November 11, 2015 Back From {a very extended} Vacation

• July 23, 2015 Judith, on a Monday Night

• July 23, 2015 May Nudes and Works in Progress

• June 19, 2015 Two Months of Nudes

• April 19, 2015 San Jose’, Costa Rica : Urban Sketchers Workshop | The Market Adventure

• March 24, 2015 Picking up Brushes {Life Drawing in Balboa Park 3.23.15)

• March 24, 2015 Night Landscapes

• March 23, 2015 Picking up Pencils, Markers {Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, San Diego 3.21.15}

• March 17, 2015 Angelic Visitors, Skies { Tribal Baroque }

• March 16, 2015 San Diego, the Night is My Territory

• March 15, 2015 Blossoming { Spring, Again }

• March 15, 2015 Start Tonight {Musings on Time, and Being an Artist}

• February 14, 2015 An Invitation

• January 24, 2015 The Art of Not Falling in Love

• January 23, 2015 Balanced Recklessness

• January 3, 2015 Art is a Family Project

• January 1, 2015 HNY {Love at the time of landlines}

• December 20, 2014 Escape, or Freedom

• December 15, 2014 Tender is the Night

• December 11, 2014 How To Love {Postcards from Paradise}

• December 10, 2014 Above Seas of Clouds

• December 9, 2014 Still Nights, California

• December 9, 2014 Separate and Not Equal {San Diego streetscape}

• October 19, 2014 Perhaps One Day Soon in San Diego

• September 17, 2014 The Lady Doth Protest

• September 16, 2014 Cities and Sieges

• September 16, 2014 Love after Love

• June 29, 2014 Dispatches from Puerto Rico Vol. I – La Isla Que Encanta

• June 20, 2014 These Rocks Were Put Together By Cats

• June 6, 2014 What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why

• May 27, 2014 Deconstructing Love

• May 19, 2014 Lights at Lulu’s

• May 11, 2014 The Topography of Tears

• May 11, 2014 Mother’s Day : Flowers and Watercolors

• May 6, 2014 Making {Leather Tattoos}

• May 6, 2014 Shifts

• April 21, 2014 {Everything will turn into flowers}

• April 11, 2014 Conferencing II

• April 11, 2014 Conferencing I

• April 11, 2014 Salt Castles

• April 11, 2014 A Sketch from Another Time

• April 10, 2014 Good Morning Texas

• April 10, 2014 Drawing with Drew

• April 1, 2014 Silhouette

• March 31, 2014 Mad Men

• March 30, 2014 Vegas

• March 30, 2014 On Pluto

• February 14, 2014 San Diego [for all my wandering nights]

• February 12, 2014 My Father, the Painter

• February 12, 2014 On Time

• February 12, 2014 Jamaica, December 2013 {goodbye}

• February 11, 2014 The Name of The Rose {collage in progress}

• February 11, 2014 The Eye Needs to Travel

• January 20, 2014 Poetic [Retreat]

• December 31, 2013 Postcards from Jamaica

• December 25, 2013 Leaving Again

• December 24, 2013 Gifts { small books and sketchbooks}

• December 21, 2013 Palm Springs {in search of the sun}

• December 19, 2013 Stargazing and Lovesongs

• December 11, 2013 My Words, Tinfoil Wings

• December 10, 2013 Love {like prying a magnet off steel}

• December 10, 2013 Collage in process and ASCII Art

• December 10, 2013 The glue has dried….{Anna Karenina |The brightest thing}

• December 3, 2013 Hello ¦ Goodbye? {art on a saturday night}

• November 24, 2013 Fallout [silence]

• November 20, 2013 Strange | Beautiful

• November 8, 2013 Timing (is on my side?)

• November 1, 2013 Manhattan

• November 1, 2013 Our Love

• November 1, 2013 The pieces are coming together

• October 6, 2013 The Schism Series

• September 25, 2013 Impromptu San Diego Poem {Feelings are Facts or Relationscapes}

• September 18, 2013 La Baracca del Bucaniere…sort of finished. And Figs!

• September 17, 2013 La Baracca del Bucaniere (Fisherman’s Shack). – cont’d

• September 12, 2013 Orange is the Light of my Birth Day

• September 8, 2013 Night Fishing

• September 7, 2013 Happy Birthday, Mamma!

• September 5, 2013 Baracca – The Fisherman’s Shack

• September 4, 2013 These are the stars over the Mediterranean…

• September 3, 2013 Violetta

• September 2, 2013 Sometimes a Portrait

• September 1, 2013 Dreams and Ephemera

• August 30, 2013 Trav’ling, Trav’ling {long lost collage}

• August 8, 2013 P L A N S

• June 22, 2013 Miami ¦ In Bloom

• May 22, 2013 Not a Heart but Time

• May 20, 2013 Collage [11:20]

• May 15, 2013 Gifts

• May 14, 2013 Set The World on Fire

• May 8, 2013 Pa’delante!

• May 8, 2013 Angels {Selfsame}

• May 5, 2013 Staying and Leaving

• May 4, 2013 Sketches from the Arab Movie Festival

• May 3, 2013 Requiem for a Friend

• April 25, 2013 A Drawer’s Painting {c’est fini}

• April 19, 2013 Dispatches from Buffalo: Ruins | The Beauty of Grain Elevators

• April 19, 2013 Dispatches from Buffalo, New York

• April 7, 2013 Nothing is a mistake.

• April 5, 2013 San Francisco from Samovar|Tea Lounge

• April 4, 2013 An [under]Painting for Jasmin

• March 15, 2013 Beautiful Ruins

• February 15, 2013 Happiness is Summer in February

• February 4, 2013 See(k) Love

• February 4, 2013 The Way Things Heal Is By Being Broken

• January 26, 2013 Living Poetry

• January 25, 2013 Rain

• January 24, 2013 Stillness

• January 23, 2013 The Hummingbird

• January 20, 2013 Calm, Like a Sunday Evening

• January 20, 2013 Architectural Gestures

• January 16, 2013 Poetry After the Fact

• January 7, 2013 Staccato | Fragments

• January 3, 2013 Chancing upon the Extraordinary

• December 27, 2012 Narcissus {Buttered Words}

• December 22, 2012 Between Two Waters

• December 21, 2012 Splendid Solstice

• December 16, 2012 Ink Patterns {or wearing hearts on sleeves}

• December 16, 2012 Channeling Amy

• December 13, 2012 Sidewalk Stories {acts of flanerie}

• December 11, 2012 Anywhere

• December 10, 2012 Ongoing Songs of Redemption {It’s not too late}

• December 10, 2012 Negotiating Boundaries | Failing and Falling…and Flailing

• December 2, 2012 On Burning Patience

• November 30, 2012 Nefertiti and The Sphinx {postcard from Paris time}

• November 25, 2012 There is a Room

• November 22, 2012 Gratitude

• November 16, 2012 Waiting {arab family waiting for the arab film festival}

• November 16, 2012 Censorship of the Eye {and quiet good news}

• November 13, 2012 Like a Candle in a Dark Room: Happy Diwali {the festival of lights}

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