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Lucky Friday The 13th 

13.03.26

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3 am. Barcelona - Brussels flight. Almost empty Terminal 2. Sweet British breakfast, cold and foggy windows, sleepy passengers (me too). Melancholic live-piano music in the middle of the airport, the sound bouncing off the walls and spreading... Third little pipe-pause under the freezing Barcelonese stars.

Qualitative Breathing

Barcelona, 2026

Have seen the sunrise just from the God's altitude. Magical. When I see such landscapes I feel like if I were an old cartographer... lost in the wast fields. What a metaphoric privilege seeing our world from above, like birds. Plane is also a bird, but an artificial one.

From Above

Barcelona, 2026

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Arrived.

Brussels train station. Pouring rain. Late Hotel Royal check - in. 6 more hours.  
Left luggage and went for a walk.

Brussels, 2026

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Bozar - Centre For Fine Arts, Brussels, 2026

Belleza E Brutteza Exhibition

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The rare one. Amazing how he managed to capture even something unattractive in such a charming and magnetic way.

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Grotesque Head Of An Old Woman

Leonardo Da Vinci

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The End. Kind regards, 

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Felt my bones. Cold and wet. 9 in the morning. Decided to enter the random museum in front of me to get a cup of coffee. It was Bozar, I had no idea. Tourist groups waiting for the exhibition to start, I look at them while in a queue and barrista whispers "Now our Queen will go down the stairs". It was the Queen Mathilde of Belgium... visiting the exhibion "Belleza e Brutteza". Art works from Italian Renaissance period discovering the Beauty and Ugliness, and the relationship of these two always  going alongside. I thought of Umberto Eco immediately and of the royal grace of Her Majesty, of course.

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The World Feeds Many Fools

Flemish School, 16th Century, Gent

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A Jester

Cornelis Van Haarlem, 16th Century, Amsterdam

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Fool Looking Through His Fingers

Master Of 1537, Antwerpen

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© Rafaella Renatovna

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