On April 29th, 2013, THE DOMESTIC INTEGRITY RUG AND GARDEN…
…here on the Pollinaria farm in Abruzzo, Italy have reached their peak spring moments and final installations as we prepare to leave after a few weeks of living…
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On April 21, 2013, WE ARE TRANSPLANTING TO THE CIRCLE…
…all of the wild spontaneous plants we can find growing on the sprawling sloping expanses of the farm that have some domestic use, like borage, mustard, dandelion, chicory, chamomile,…
On April 16th, 2012, THE TURNING OF THE CIRCLE…
…by farmer Luciano on his big tractor gets the compacted clay soil ready for our planting circle.
On April 15th, 2013, THE FIGS…
…that consumed me – and I consumed so many of – during my summer chapter of Domestic Integrities at Pollinaria, and now just wishful little buds that I…
On April 14th, 2013, ROME FOR A DAY…
…on the way from Amsterdam to Abruzzo for the final seasonal chapter of Domestic Integrities at Pollinaria is warm sunny summery deep breath of ancient urbanism before we…
On October 9th, 2012, THE ABRUZZIAN GRAPE HARVEST…
…here at Pollinaria – the farm west of Pescara where Domestic Integrities E01 is being developed through four seasons – has just finished today, exactly as we are…
On July 3rd, 2012, A WICKER BASKET WEAVER…
…named Fernando Marcantonio, aged 95, residing in a remote small Abruzzian village learned how to make baskets from his father and grandfather when he was young – something that they did…
On July 2nd, 2012, TREBBIATURA DINNER…
…is the annual traditional meal here at Pollinaria farm when all of the grain harvest workers involved in the two-day operation on these hundred acres gather with their family for a…
On July 1st, 2012, WASHING OF THE WOOL…
…consumed most of this very hot day in this cool moist rocky valley stream (found after a three hour drive the other day in search of the perfect…
On February 19th, 2012, THE ABRUZZIAN KITCHEN…
…on display at the the Museum of the People of Abruzzo – and historically found in the farmhouses dotting the local hills – will be of keen interest…
On February 18th, 2012, LEAPINE APICOLTURA BIOLOGICA…
…is the homemade honey operation of Tulio who we visited this morning – a first possible collaborator in our as yet somewhat undefined but clearer by the day…
On February 17th, 2012, PESCARA’S MUSEO DELLA GENTI D’ABRUZZO…
…(the Museum of the People of Abruzzo) which engagingly presents the rich essence of Abruzzian domestic culture, the stories and related materials of how people have survived and…
On February 16th, 2012, BUS FROM ROME TO PESCARA…
…took me from Tiburtina station (after landing at Fiumicino – followed by a quick detour to Piramide where I met with friends and collaborators about the upcoming Roma Mangia…
On September 5th, 2011, NIGHTLIFE IN OSTUNI…
…which seems to be a very tranquil town during the day, surprised me last night when the very designy chic bars and lounges spilled out on the the…
On September 4th, 2011, TRULLI THEN OSTUNI…
…was the order of the day, as I finally departed Lecce, continuing my Puglian journeys gradually making my way west then north on the slow side roads through…
On September 3rd, 2011, LECCE DECORATIONS…
…in super baroque style are intricately carved into local honey Lecce limestone covering every available square millimeter of each billboard-like neighborhood church facade, and parts of almost all of…
On September 2nd, 2011, PUGLIA’S TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TYPES…
…are what have drawn me to this place more than anything, such as the dry-stone conical domes of the trulli, modest shelters or residences found mostly in the…
On September 1st, 2011, A MASSERIA (WITH FRANTOIO IPOGEO)…
…is something I have had an intense architectural crush on since first reading about them last year (a fortified farmhouse unique to Puglia, often with a series of…
On August 31st, 2011, GALLIPOLI FISHERMEN AT SUNSET…
…this evening were just pulling back into the docks where crowds of locals were waiting to receive them…and why I wondered, was it their families? was it a…
On August 30th, 2011, A TOWER FOR PIGEONS…
…at the masseria I visited late this afternoon near Nardo’ must be the coolest thing I have seen on my Puglia adventures so far – an Animal Estate…