"Would you allow Shakespeare and Company to have the honor of publishing Ulysses? "
Sylvia Beach to James Joyce, Paris 1920
“Shakespeare and Company was a warm and cheerful place, with a big stove in winter, tables and bookcases, new books in the windows, and on the walls photos of writers both dead and alive. The photos all looked like snapshots and even the dead writers seemed to actually be alive. Sylvia had a lively face with angular modeling, brown eyes as lively as a beast's and as cheerful as a girl's, and wavy brown hair that was combed back from her beautiful forehead and cut flush with her ears and following the same curve of the neck of the velvet jackets he wore. She had nice legs and was kind and cheerful and was interested in conversation, and she liked to joke and tell jokes. No one has ever offered me more kindness than her. The first time I entered the bookstore I was very intimidated and didn't have enough money to subscribe to the circulating library. She told me that I would give her the deposit any day that was comfortable for me and she gave me a subscriber card and said that I could take the books I wanted. "
Paris was a party. Ernest Hemingway
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The poppy is a wild and delicate flower. It has been used for a long time as a symbol of peace, sleep and death. It is a special flower. It does not allow to be cut, it decomposes and falls apart quickly. The brilliant color and vibrancy that it presents in the field does not last even a few minutes in our hands. If we want to keep it, to make it remain, it will be necessary to elaborate it, work it in such a way that it does not spoil. The resulting, imperfect, nature will be much more complete and elegant… and will remain.
Love and beauty are the two fundamental challenges of the human being and it takes a lifetime to understand them.
Beauty repairs.
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Photograph on 100% cotton Hahnemühle paper with pigmented inks, natural walnut wood frame and museum glass (70% anti-reflective and 90% UVA protection). Red collection (51 pieces). White collection (32 pieces). Numbered and signed work (25 editions of each piece). Each piece comes in a black case, with "Jaime Sicilia" stamped on the cover, specially designed for this project.
"Would you allow Shakespeare and Company to have the honor of publishing Ulysses? "
Sylvia Beach to James Joyce, Paris 1920
“Shakespeare and Company was a warm and cheerful place, with a big stove in winter, tables and bookcases, new books in the windows, and on the walls photos of writers both dead and alive. The photos all looked like snapshots and even the dead writers seemed to actually be alive. Sylvia had a lively face with angular modeling, brown eyes as lively as a beast's and as cheerful as a girl's, and wavy brown hair that was combed back from her beautiful forehead and cut flush with her ears and following the same curve of the neck of the velvet jackets he wore. She had nice legs and was kind and cheerful and was interested in conversation, and she liked to joke and tell jokes. No one has ever offered me more kindness than her. The first time I entered the bookstore I was very intimidated and didn't have enough money to subscribe to the circulating library. She told me that I would give her the deposit any day that was comfortable for me and she gave me a subscriber card and said that I could take the books I wanted. "
Paris was a party. Ernest Hemingway
***
The poppy is a wild and delicate flower. It has been used for a long time as a symbol of peace, sleep and death. It is a special flower. It does not allow to be cut, it decomposes and falls apart quickly. The brilliant color and vibrancy that it presents in the field does not last even a few minutes in our hands. If we want to keep it, to make it remain, it will be necessary to elaborate it, work it in such a way that it does not spoil. The resulting, imperfect, nature will be much more complete and elegant… and will remain.
Love and beauty are the two fundamental challenges of the human being and it takes a lifetime to understand them.
Beauty repairs.
***
Photograph on 100% cotton Hahnemühle paper with pigmented inks, natural walnut wood frame and museum glass (70% anti-reflective and 90% UVA protection). Red collection (51 pieces). White collection (32 pieces). Numbered and signed work (25 editions of each piece). Each piece comes in a black case, with "Jaime Sicilia" stamped on the cover, specially designed for this project.
