Comments for Mapping Paradise http://alessandroscafi.com Alessandro Scafi's Blog Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:46:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The Cosmography of Paradise by Liza http://alessandroscafi.com/2008/12/08/the-cosmography-of-paradise/#comment-32 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:46:57 +0000 http://alessandroscafi.com/?p=24#comment-32 This is quite a up-to-date information. I’ll share it on Digg.

]]> Comment on Faenza and Paradise by paolino http://alessandroscafi.com/2009/02/26/faenza-and-paradise/#comment-23 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:12:58 +0000 http://alessandroscafi.com/2009/02/26/faenza-and-paradise/#comment-23 where are you from?
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]]> Comment on The Cosmography of Paradise by Geraldine Kiefer http://alessandroscafi.com/2008/12/08/the-cosmography-of-paradise/#comment-22 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:23:58 +0000 http://alessandroscafi.com/?p=24#comment-22 I am an artist and art historian whose work maps the boundaries of paradise, allegorical maps, femininity (the “carte de tendre”) and tropicality by means of original and “over-map” drawings of Portobelo, Panama. I am very interested in how images of Paradise can be “found” in specific places by means of drawing them from memory, as well as creating drawings based on colonial maps. Portobelo, a Spanish colony on the Carrera de Indias, became a site for fantastic mapping (late 16th to late 18th centuries) wherein the bay and surrounding land morphed into fantastic crustacean shapes, and the forts built to protect them became embodied–even flayed–creatures. There is a mystery and terror to mapped Portobelo, one my work (drawings, texts, commentary) seeks to transcribe and intertwine–not to bound, but to unleash.

I would love to take part in a future symposium or conference you lead.

]]> Comment on The Cosmography of Paradise by massimo mantellini http://alessandroscafi.com/2008/12/08/the-cosmography-of-paradise/#comment-18 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:26:06 +0000 http://alessandroscafi.com/?p=24#comment-18 sono commosso: you made my day ;)

]]> Comment on Paradise in Catania by massimo mantellini http://alessandroscafi.com/2008/05/22/paradise-in-catania/#comment-3 Fri, 23 May 2008 20:30:40 +0000 http://scafi.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-3 Non credo ai miei occhi ;)
G_R_A_N_D_E!

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