Le Bouscat, 20 mars 2015
Category: myself & I
Voilà ma ville : hometown ?
Arezzo, 14-21 Agosto 2014
Homesick or landsick?
I look at these streets like a visitor admiring masterpieces in a museum.
These buildings are just perfect holograms of my past.
I am just wandering and wondering where my future is. It is not here, in this land, on this ground. That is for sure.
I am a tourist, with friends and family far away. I was born here but my heart has always been elsewhere.
I am a traveller, my soul is restless. Just know that I’ll be back, but not for good.
Home is just where You are.
Credits: Gaia Saviotti
Doctor Europaeus
Verona, 5 Maggio 2014
De l’Afrique vers…
Some more Sierra Leone’s photos by Aldo 🙂
La mia Africa: Sierra Leone
Kabala, 10th – 26th January 2014
Un paese dove si conduce una vita semplice. Che non vuol dire senza significato.
Una terra rossa di bauxite che si fonde con il cielo al tramonto.
La povertà ti rende egoista. La ricchezza ipocritamente altruista. Nel primo caso hai bisogno di nutrire il tuo stomaco, nel secondo il tuo amor proprio.
La pace ha sei dimensioni. Pace con il tuo passato. Pace con il tuo futuro. Pace con il tuo presente. Pace con i tuoi vicini. Pace con la tua famiglia. Pace con Dio. Non puoi avere pace se una di queste sei dimensioni ti manca.
Questa è stata la mia Africa.
Soutenance Part I
Green as Ireland, Green as Hope
Cork, 13th-19th October 2013
I’ve taken this time for me. An entire week on my own, working hard and trying to restore all my thoughts.
Things have to change and they have already changed a bit.
It’s time to be the person I want to be. It is time to be the protagonist of my life, as one of my closest friends has been suggesting me…
I’ve not been alone in this green cold Irish days. I’ve been with all the people I’ve met walking in the gorgeous campus of the UCC or just buying my light dinner in the corner shop. I’ve seen their hearts through their welcoming smiles and deep blue eyes.
Ordinary people making the simplest things appear unique.
I want to be like I am if I just throw my rationality away, if I just let my belly speak for me. I feel I am like the sun. I shine, I’m full light. I’m happy and serene, not needing anything or anyone more.
I’m just like this song:
So pass me by, I’ll be fine
Just give me time
Time, there’s always time
On my mind
Pass me by, I’ll be fine
Just give me time
IM: what a communication expert ! :-D
The website of my second PhD project is online.
Communication is what I like: sharing, using new media, writing, just be in contact with others.
The web is such a powerful resource! But it can be dangerous (I think social networks like Facebook can really falsify human relationships).
Especially for me that I live abroad, the Internet is essential to keep in touch with my friends and family, but eye contact, touching, hanging out together is much more better!
You cannot communicate if you simply do not love 🙂
A professional appearance for a creative soul
International Conference in honor of Prof. Tansella, 2nd October 2013
Pictures by Agostino Scaglia
A bigger heart to become more mature
Paris, 29th September 2013
This is a really rough draft of a song which just came up to my mind half an hour ago. I needed to sing it and record it immediately. Just to erase all bad thoughts from my head. Singing purifies my mind. And music is my instrument to share and truly perceive life and its beauty. When I’m sad, music heals my wounds. I do not know where I’m heading to, but music will be there, that is for sure.
Sorry, it’s not a beautiful recording, my voice is not always on tune and I cannot play guitar that well. But I sing with my heart and try to open it up to all people surrounding me.
Ilaria Montagni 