haiku d'etat

alissonbecker:

“My dad was a proud Kosovarian and he thought they had a right to exist. He was standing up for their rights and they were basic democratic rights. It was not only him. There were other people arrested, including his uncle, who had been jailed a number of years earlier. He got 15 years. It was strictly political. My dad was asking: ‘Why aren’t we democrats here? We deserve to be democrats. We deserve to be heard.’” 

– Granit Xhaka is one of four Swiss internationals of Albanian heritage. His family hail from Kosovo, whose independence is not recognised by Serbia. The “double-headed eagle” celebration - a double-headed eagle graces Albania’s national flag - ensured that nobody could overlook the game’s complex political dimension.

A simple gesture has profound reach and impact.

inag-mag:

Surreal photography by Sam Johnson

ombuarchitecture:

Stanley Donwood creates magical new artwork for Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht

Titled Optical Glade, the installation at Bonnefantenmuseum is inspired by our relationship with nature and the spiritual feelings this can provoke. …

“The cupola at the Bonnefantenmuseum seems to me to capture the sort of feeling that I feel when I walk into a cathedral or a mosque or a long barrow; an urge to be quiet or silent and a sort of suspension of thought,” he continues. “Maybe my mouth opens a little, involuntarily. The need to look up, so infrequent in normal, everyday life, is much more evident.”

Read more at creative review

By Francesca Colussi Cramer