#Natasha Johns Messenger

[melles1276]

Chapters: 2/24 Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Original Female Character(s), Steve Rogers/Original Female Character(s), James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes & Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes & Clint Barton Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Joaquín Torres, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Nick Fury, John Walker (Marvel), Lemar Hoskins, Alpine (Marvel), George Barnes (Marvel), Winifred Barnes Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Bucky Barnes Whump, Alternate Universe - Military, Developing Friendships, War, Afghanistan, Loyalty, Hurt Bucky Barnes, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst, This Is Not Going To Go The Way You Think, Major Character Injury, Character Death, Bucky Barnes has a family, Blood and Injury, Injury, Whump, There's a lot of dialogue, Brothers at least, War in Afghanistan, Soldiers, Sad Ending, Uncle Bucky Barnes, Comrades, Someone is going to die, But I won’t tell you who, Friendship, Teacher!Steve, Teacher Steve Rogers, Art teacher Steve Rogers, Goats, Steve Rogers Whump, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, References to Depression Summary:

Sergeant James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is stationed in Afghanistan in 2017 and is tasked with bringing employees of an NGO, including art and sports teacher Steve Rogers, to safety from a dangerous area. What begins as a normal mission ends in a nightmare. This is a story about friendship, loyalty and solidarity in a seemingly hopeless situation. Pairings: Bucky/OC, Steve/OC *Character death*

This story was partially inspired by animarvelita's pictures which can be found at https://www.tiktok.com/@animarvelita/photo/7294703498396978438?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7378547503304377888

Excerpt:

Chapter 2 - Uncertainties

The journey in the heavily armored military vehicles is anything but comfortable. The Humvees rumble along the unpaved country roads, past jagged rock formations, and the stuffy air builds up inside the cabin.

Bucky takes advantage of the ride to let his mind wander a bit in the passenger seat. They are still on safe ground in this part of the region, so he’s able to turn his attention briefly to continuing his plans for his return home to the States. After all his time in Afghanistan, it’s still hard for him to imagine spending Christmas with his family in snowy Brooklyn.

In just under three months he will be able to spend time with his family and hold his children and his youngest nephew in his arms. He'll be able to hold the kid the first time since he only knows of him from photos and video chats. His sister, Rebecca, had become a mother for the second time four months ago, and she has taken on the task within the Barnes family of keeping him up to date on all the developments at home via Messenger. That's how he knows that his father, George, is planning a fishing trip with him ever since he found out the date of Bucky’s return. In fact, he has already packed up all the equipment for it and is just waiting for his return.

Winifred, his mom, has already drawn up a menu for the Christmas holidays and wants to spoil him with home-cooked, delicious food and all kinds of scrumptious cakes. The idea makes his mouth water.

After two hours of driving around 100 kilometers, they take a short break. His commanding officer, Master Sergeant Daniel Miller, instructs Bucky and his partner, Travis Bell, to climb a small hill and get an overview of the situation.

While both are lying on the ground, Travis searches the area with his binoculars while Bucky, trained sniper that he is, secures the surrounding area with his weapon at the ready. Sergeant First Class Tom Jackson remains below and radios in their position.

“And?” Bucky wants to know.

Travis slowly lowers the binoculars and puts his sunglasses back on. “Nothing suspicious,” he reports thoughtfully. He doesn't have much experience as a so-called spotter and the fact that he is now being asked by the sergeant to give a situation report obviously makes him nervous.

Bucky narrows his eyes thoughtfully, and scans the horizon through the scope of his rifle. So far he's been able to confirm Travis' conclusion but with every mile they advance deeper into the interior, the risk of encountering enemy tribes and coming under fire increases drastically. They are only a few kilometers away from their destination. The quicker they get to the settlement to collect the civilians, the better.

Miller’s voice comes over the radio: “We’re leaving in 15 minutes.”

[valyrievancity]

Rules/Mini Masterlist.

Hello, I'm valyrievancity, you can call me Val if you want. I use all pronouns. This is a safe place I will block or delete any hate. I write fanfiction, all kinds of fandoms I will put them later on.

1. Don't be a dick

2. If there is an ask or question I don't wanna answer I won't answer it.

3. Please be patient with me I procrastinate a lot

4. Don't come on my blog and be homophobic or transphobic.

5. Don't ask any personal questions about my family.

6. Don't keep asking for something or repeat a request give me time as I am a human with their own life outside of social media.

-Rules are done- -Be mindful I might add some later on-

Fandoms

Slashers

Detroit: become human

Life is strange

Boku no Hero Academia

Marvel

Harry potter

Obey me!

Mystic Messenger

Mcyt

Sally face

DC

Supernatural

Resident Evil: Village

-I will add more if I get into another fandom-

Things I will write:

Smut

Fluff

Angst

Death

Some types of trauma (for comfort only)

Paranormal Activity

Gore

Ships

Things I won't write:

Mental Abuse (Sorry but I don't want to write about it due to experiences, hope you understand)

Sewer slide (hopefully you get what I'm saying)

¢u++!ng

Homophobic things and transphobic things

Things to deal with covid

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Characters I'll write for:

Marvel: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, Thor Odinson, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bruce banner.

Bucky Barnes, Loki, Carol Danvers, Valkyrie, Peter Parker, Dr. Strange.

Peter Quill, MJ, Sam Wilson, Wade Wilson, (I'll also write more, just send in requests and I'll tell you if I write for them or not)

Slashers:

Jason Vorhees, Brahms Heelshire, Micheal Myers (both versions), Hannibal, Ghostface (Stu and billy) Vincent, Bo, and Lester.

Bubba Sawyer, Thomas Hewitt.

Detroit: Become Human

Connor rk800 and rk900, Markus, Kara, Luther, Hank, Gavin, Kamski.

Life is strange: Max, Chloe

BNHA: Aizawa, Shigaraki, Dabi, Tenya, Izuku, Katsuki, Ochako, Momo, Shoto, Keigo.

Harry Potter: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, Cedric, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Ginny, Luna, Tom Riddle, Oliver Wood.

Obey me!: Lucifer, Mammon, Levi, Asmo, Satan, Beel, Belphie, Diavolo, Barbatos, Simeon, Solomon.

Mystic Messenger: Jumin, 707, Yoosung, Saeran, Zen, Jaehee, V.

Mcyt: Dream, George, Sapnap, Technoblade, Karl, Quackity.

Sally Face: Sal, Larry, Todd, Neil, Maple, Ashley, Chug.

DC: Superman, Superwoman, Wonderwoman, Flash, Batman.

Supernatural: Dean and Sam Winchester, Castiel, John Winchester.

Resident Evil: Village: Ethan Winters, Karl, Alcina, Mother Miranda.

[crazybutgood]

Book club tag game

Thank you for the tag @coffeedrgn87 and @goblinmatriarch 💕 My list is probably gonna disappoint jfhhjf I haven't been reading many non-academic books for a while. Mostly webcomics, graphic novels, plays, and some poetry nowadays. And because of my major and other modules I take, I'm actually reading a lot of books/book chapters/essays but they're purely for academics so, yeah. But anyway:

Last book I bought: Fieldnotes of a Psychiatrist by Chong Siow Ann

Borrowed: The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined by Steven Pinker. (I borrowed this last semester before I realised we are given access to everything, including books, online 🤦‍♀️)

Was gifted: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig

Gave/lent to someone: I am the messenger by Markus Zusak. It's my favourite book and I lend it out so much to whoever I manage to convince to read it lol

Started: The Last Sun by K. D. Edwards

Finished: is it counted if it's poetry hfhshhj: Pluto:Poems by Gulzar

Gave five stars: The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason

Didn't finish: too many failed attempts at getting back into reading books. English, Natasha Pulley's books,, latest was The Bedlam Stacks iirc. Hindi, श्रीकांत (Srikanth) by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Maybe I should restart Srikanth actually, it might help? I made significant progress with it, and I did finish Pluto, so maybe sticking to Hindi for now will help

No pressure tagging @curlyy-hair-dont-care @makeitp1nk @teacup-tai @whataboutmyfries @julcheninred @tenthousandyearsx @vukovich if you want to do this, and anyone else who would like to as well!

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Shows and Characters

I will likely be adding onto this list as time goes on! 

Criminal Minds

- Spencer Reid

- Aaron Hotchner

- Derek Morgan

- Penelope Garcia

- Jennifer Jareau

- Emily Prentiss

My Hero Academia

- All Might

- Hawks

- Dabi

- Eraserhead

-Present Mic

- Inko Midoriya

Howl’s Moving Castle

- Howl Pendragon

- Sophie

- Calcifer

Hannibal (TV Series)

- Hannibal Lecter

- Will Graham

- Jack Crawford

- Alana Bloom

- Margot

Stardew Valley

- Alex

- Hailey

- Sam

- Penny

- Maru

- Harvey

- Sebastian 

- Abigail

- Emily

- Shane

- Robin

- Demetrius

- Sandy

Marvel Cinematic Universe

- Steve Rogers

- Bucky Barnes

- Sam Wilson

- Natasha Romanof

- Wanda Maximoff

- Vision

- Tony Stark

- Rhodey (War Machine)

- Thor

- Loki

- Hela

- Valkyrie

- Carol Danvers

- Gamora

- Peter Quill

- Wade Wilson (Not technically MCU, but whatever)

The Adventure Zone: Balance (Will most likely contain spoilers)

Taako Taaco

Magnus Burnsides

Merle Highchurch

Lucretia

Barry Bluejeans

Davenport

Lup Taaco

Homestuck 

(Will be written as all characters being at least 18 years old/9 solar sweeps, unless specified to be platonic or familial)

-Dave Strider

- Dirk Strider

- Rose Lalonde

- Roxy Lalonde

- John Egbert

- June Egbert

- Jane Crocker

- Jade Harley

- Jake English

- Karkat Vantas

- Kankri Vantas

- Aradia Megido

- Damara Megido

- Tavros Nitram

- Rufioh Nitram

- Sollux Captor

- Mituna Captor

- Nepeta Leijon

- Meulin Leijon

- Kanaya Maryam

- Porrim Maryam

- Terezi Pyrope

- Latula Pyrope

- Vriska Serket

- Eridan Ampora

- Cronus Ampora

- Feferi Peixes

Mystic Messenger

- 707

- Jumin Han

- Yoosung Kim

- Zen

- Jaehee Kang

- Saeran

- V

Fullmetal Alchemist/ Brotherhood

- Edward Elric

- Winry Rockwell

- Roy Mustang

- Riza Hawkeye

- Greed

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[teachingmycattoread]

Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #13

Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing (1993) (trailer, wiki)

Anti-Stratfordian-ism - refers to the theory that William Shakespeare (The Man From Stratford) did not write The Plays of William Shakespeare. For our opinions on this may I refer you to Exhibit A, Exhibit B and this gif:

"Beatrice: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me", Act I Scene I

Kenneth Branagh (imdb)

Keanu Reeves (imdb)

Much Ado About Nothing (2011) - the David Tennant and Catherine Tate one (trailer)

Othello, William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Minions (wiki)

"Claudio:What man was he talk’d with you yesternight

Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?

Now, if you are a maid, answer to this." Act IV Scene I

Much Ado About Nothing, BBC ShakespeaRe Told (2005) - this is the adaptation where Hero doesn't take Claudio back (wiki)

The difference between comedy and tragedy is listening to the women - we're referring to this tumblr post

"Beatrice:In our last

conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and

now is the whole man governed with one", Act I Scene I

"Messenger: And a good soldier too, lady.

Beatrice: And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord?" Act I Scene I

"Don Pedro: Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of

Signior Benedick

Beatrice: Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave

him use for it, a double heart for his single one:

marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,

therefore your grace may well say I have lost it." Act II Scene I

"The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference"- Elie Wiesel (ref)

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Drift compatibility (fanwiki)

"Beatrice: You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old." Act I Scene I

Persuasion, Jane Austen

"Benedick: Come, bid me do any thing for thee.

Beatrice: Kill Claudio.

Benedick: Ha! Not for the wide world.

Beatrice: You kill me to deny it. Farewell." Act IV Scene I

"Benedick: Will your grace command me any service to the

world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now

to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on;

I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the

furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of

Prester John's foot, fetch you a hair off the great

Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pigmies,

rather than hold three words' conference with this

harpy. You have no employment for me?" Act II Scene I

Emma Thompson (imdb)

"Leonato: Well, then, go you into hell?

Beatrice: No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet

me like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and

say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to

heaven; here's no place for you maids" Act II Scene I

"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you." Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

There's only one bed trope (x)

Locked in an elevator trope (x)

"Claudio: When you went onward on this ended action,

I look’d upon her with a soldier’s eye,

That liked, but had a roughter task in hand

Than to drive liking to the name of love" Act I Scene I

"Don John:I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in

his grace" Act I Scene III

"Don John: ..I cannot hide

what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile

at no man’s jests, eat when I have stomach and wait

for no man’s leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and

tend on no man’s business, laugh when I am merry and

claw no man in his humour" Act I Scene III

"Don Pedro: Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best

becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in

a merry hour.

Beatrice: No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there

was a star danced, and under that was I born." Act II Scene I

"Leonato: Daughter, remember what I told you: if the prince

do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer." Act II Scene 1

"...it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made to you" - Mr Collins, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Kenneth Branagh falling through the deckchair (youtube)

The Paint Scene (youtube)

On the Road, Jack Kerouac - I couldn't find the gifset we mentioned, give us a shout if you find it!

"Beatrice:...O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart

in the marketplace" Act IV Scene I

RIP to X but I'm different (meme)

"Leonato: ...my brother hath a daughter,

Almost the copy of my child that’s dead." Act V Scene I

"Benedick: I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is

not that strange?" Act IV Scene I

What else are we reading/watching this week?

The Lord of the Rings films

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley

A Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying, Marie Kondo

Next Time On Teaching My Cat To Read

His Majesty’s Dragon (Temeraire), Naomi Novik

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H - P Fandoms & Characters Masterlist

H

Hades Game

Hadestown

Haikyuu

Click Me!

Hairspray

Half of It

Halloween

Hamefura

Hamilton

Hannibal

Harry Potter

Click Me!

Haunting of Bly Manor

Hazbin Hotel

Heathers

Hell Fest

Hellboy Series

Hellraiser

Hellsing

Helluva Boss

Hemlock Grove

High School Musical

His Dark Materials

Hobbit

Hobbs & Shaw

Hocus Pocus

Honey I'm Going On a Strike

Honkai Star Rail

House of the Dragon

House of Wax

House M.D.

How I Met Your Mother

How To Train Your Dragon

Howl's Moving Castle

HSMTMTS

Hunger Games

Hypnosis Microphone

H2O: Just Add Water

I

I Am Not Okay With This

I Am The Real One

I Became The Male Lead's Adopted Daughter

I Became the Wife of the Monstrous Crown Prince

I Shall Master this Family

I Still See You

iCarly

Ikemen Sengoku

Impractical Jokers

In The Heights

In Time

Inception

Indiana Jones Series

Inglourious Basterds

Inside Job

Internship

Interview with the Vampire

Into the Light Once Again

Inuyasha

Invincible

Invitation

It (Movie)

Iron Claw

J

Jackass

James Bond

Jaws

Jennifer’s Body

Jigokuraku

John Wick

Jujutsu Kaisen

Julie and the Phantoms

Jumanji

Jurassic Park

Jurassic World

K

Kaichou Wa Maid-sama

Kaiju No.8

Kakegurui

Katekyo Hitman Reborn

K.C. Undercover

Kekkaishi

Kick Ass

Kill The Hero

Killing Stalking

Kimetsu no Yaiba

Click Me!

King Arthur

Kingdom Hearts

Kingsman

Knives Out

Kong: Skull Island

Kuroko no Basket

Click Me!

K-12

L

Labyrinth

Lady K and the Sick Man

Last of Us

Law and Order

Legacies

Legend of Korra

Legend of Zelda

Les Miserables

Life Is Strange

Little Mermaid

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Women

Liv and Maddie

Lodge

Lore Olympus

Lost Boys

Love and Deepspace

Love and Monsters

Love Rosie

Love Witch

Lucifer (Fox)

Luxiem

M

Macgyver

Mad Max

Mad Men

Magic City

Magnificent Seven

Magnus Chase Series

Malcolm in the Middle

Mamma Mia

Man From Uncle

Mare of Easttown

Marry My Husband

Martian

Marvel

Click Me!

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Click Me!

M*A*S*H

Mashle

Maze Runner

Mean Girls

Mentalist

Midsommar

Miraculous Ladybug

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Mob Psycho 100

Monkey Man

Monster High

Monster Inc

Monster Prom

Moriarty the Patriot

Mork and Mindy

Mortal Kombat

Mr. Robot

My Babysitter’s a Vampire

My Cousin Vinny

My In-Laws are Obsessed with Me

My Writing

Mystic Messenger

Hyun Ryu

Jaehee Kang

Jihyun Kim

Jumin Han

Saeran Choi

Saeyoung Choi

Vanderwood

Yoosung

N

Nanbaka

Narcos

Narnia

Naruto

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

NCIS

Near Dark

Neighbors

Never Have I Ever

Nevermore

New Girl

Newsies

Nier Automata

Night at the Museum

Nightmare Before Christmas

Noctyx

Not Another Teen Movie

Now You See Me

O

Obey Me

Ocean’s Trilogy

Ocean’s 8

Office

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint

One Tree Hill

Once Upon A Broken Heart

Once Upon A Time

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

One Piece

Click Me!

One Piece Live Action

One Punch Man

Original Content

Orville

Osomatsu-san

Outsider

Outsiders

Ouran High School Host Club

Outer Banks

Outlast

Overlord

Overwatch

Owari no Seraph

Owl House

P

Pacific

Pacific Rim

Panic

Parks and Recreation

Patient

Peaky Blinders

Penny Dreadful

Percy Jackson

Persona 3

Persona 4

Persona 5

Phantom of the Opera

Pirates of the Caribbean

Pitch Perfect

Pixar

Planet of the Apes

Playchoices

Platoon

Please Give Me The Pacifier

Pokemon

Power Rangers

Preacher

Precious Daughter of the Greatest Martial Arts Villain

Predator

Pretty Little Liars

Pride and Prejudice

Princess Bride

Princess Mononoke

Prisoners

Prodigal Son

Promare

Prospect

Pushing Daisies

Psycho

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Let's burn it all down and rebuild.

My name is Chris and I'm a 29 year old roleplayer with 15 years experience writing! I'm an ICU RN in my free time with a beautiful wife  (She also uses this forum. Poe, if you're reading this, buzz off my post and I love your ass) and an even more beautiful cat and a handsome puppy. I write mainly over email and reply 2-3 times a week with anywhere from 5-16 paragraphs, depending on the characters and actions in the scene. I also communicate over various messengers if that is at all your jam for plotting purposes and the like. I write M/F and F/F lines. And, since I'm a ICU nurse, I can always promise *painfully* medically accurate roleplay. I put extra *s by the lines that I will literally lose my mind if you approach me about. Searching hard! Figured I'd start with original lines: -F/F True Detective/The Wire**************** Some sort of law enforcement partners trope that has two ladies deep in an investigation of some kind, preferably in a gritty ass city. I would prefer them to be homicide detectives but could also do police officers or FBI agents. The pairing could be platonic or romantic. I have an awesome character in mind and would love to spitball something. -Political Intrigue A southern congressman with a reputation as a family man begins a campaign for the US senate, hiring a young, cunning woman to be campaign manager. She becomes his mistress and his secret weapon in the campaign and eventually, his political career. Heavily inspired by House of Cards and that genre of show. Fandoms -Doctor Who** I started writing Yaz against the 13th Doctor recently and had a lot of fun with it before it fizzled out. If anyone is interested in writing 13, holler at me! -The Boys Would love to write Hughie against Starlight! Currently working my way through the season that just dropped. -Marvel Let me write the webhead. Peter Parker, college aged and not exactly the MCU version. I would love to find someone that was interested in writing Felicia Hardy/Black Cat but I'd be down with trying most romantic interests just because I want to write this so bad. Bring on bombshell MJ or an eternally doomed Gwen (OR SPIDERGWEN). If you have a different idea, hit me up. Open minded here.******* -Also, I would really love to find someone to write Black Widow. I've always wanted to bring MCU Matt Murdock and Natasha up against one another since they were always such a famous romance in the comics. **** -DC -I'd love to write Batman against Catwoman, please. I'm not too picky on the setting or the iteration.** -John Constantine against almost anyone. I'd kill for an Elsa Bloodstone but that's obscure as heck. A mage and a monster hunter that are both English taking on the supernatural underworld. Let's make it into an adventure like magic Indiana Jones and just go nuts with it. Seriously, this could be so fun.***************** Otherwise, for John, Zatanna (old flames), Jessica Jones (Two cynical alcoholics become barstool neighbors before one's business shows up at the bar as well), or Scarlet Witch (Instead of going to Stephen Strange, Wanda ends up as John's student)? -Resident Evil I'd like to write Leon against Claire Redfield or Jill Valentine in an original outbreak or a new one. I know this is an old school fandom but I'm a diehard fan. -The Matrix Another obscure fandom. Maybe just an original crew, set during the movies, after, or an AU where they're the only survivors of Zion? Im not sure but I could plot something out! -Uncharted I'd love to write Chloe Frazier against Nadine Ross, continuing their adventures. I'm pretty wide open on what we can do with this one. RANDOM CRACK SHIPS! Caught in a Web: I would love to write an iteration (Daniel Craig or an original) of James Bond/007 against a non superhero version of Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow. Spy vs spy shenanigans as two people working for different governments. Totally impossibly but putting it just in case: Did anyone see all that Wonder Woman/Lara Croft art that was floating around the internet earlier this year? I would love to dive into that. I'd prefer to write Lara but I'm definitely not picky. My email is Chrisx104@gmail.com. I'm on skype at Chrisx104 (Same for gmail) and Discord at NurseBatman#3674

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MEMORY PALACE

13 November 2017 - 6 January 2018 Campbell Arcade, Melbourne

This exhibition exists within a subterranean corridor and therefore echoes the subconscious mind. As you traverse this liminal space each window may become a vista to recall memory, whereat art becomes therapy. In Memory Palace you become a performer of walking-meditation, activating architecture as a mnemonic device, and allowing art to serve a transformative function. 

Curated by Jake Treacy Design by Jessica Pitcher

Noah Spivak installs a new atmosphere within the vitrine, wherein components of time and memory cloud and evaporate. The exterior tiles have been cast and their surfaces sensitised with photo chemicals, allowing a subterranean crystallisation to manifest in an otherwise lightless environment. The vitrine space becomes a fragile landscape of slow tectonic movements, of crystalline growth and microcosmic eruptions, demonstrating the shifting processes of material and therefore thought. The minimalism experienced in his work is meditative, as the work evolves over time, performing the measured nature of memory.

David Mutch illuminates ruminations in ruins. His work searches for authentic experiences and the sublime in contemporary urban spaces, and these daemon etches capture light to reveal repeated gestural markings inspired by the graffiti on nearby train windows. Like abstracted hieroglyphs or scratched phone screens, their messages are phosphorous and prophetic, opening up orphic doorways to psychological reverie. They haunt their subterranean location, suspended in time, stirring the subconscious and conjuring a liminal experience. Here, we are allowed to drift in and out of thought, presence and being, as the screen becomes a map for our own hauntology.  

James Murnane takes up the devotional object as means of encountering the ever ancient, ever new. The votive of an icon becomes transmuted through its materiality, attuning the spiritual. Through resplendent plumes, articulated intuitively through paint and carved wood, we are presented a moment to experience our inner life: the experience of a heart. This ethereal moment shimmers with the lustre of pearls and rainbows, reflecting evanescence upon iridescent surfaces - flashing, shining, and dispelling blindness. In an arcing choir, the panels sing a secular space into a sacred one through a universal language that is not necessarily understood, yet felt.

Aaron Christopher Rees presents a moment for a disembodied experience. Here the ghost in the machine is being conjured, summoned through glassy panels and channelled upon shinning black tablets. It’s psychic TV for optic apparitions, flickering in the basement of the city. In the underground seeing is not believing – it is a transient place, where the flow of energy is recorded and transmitted through two Orphic screens. We see the hauntings of this place and gaze back into the past. Reality, no longer concrete, slips and suddenly becomes fluid. Perception becomes otherworldly.

Darcy Smith performs memory through the boundaries of materiality and experience. In her installation, our eye dances across surfaces and into fields of colour, where a purple void is eclipsed by a pearlescent film, and an opaque obsidian glass hovers above a semi-circle. The generosity of these materials in combination with one other speaks to the composition of a healing space, articulating an overarching transformative construction to be experienced. The glass in particular is strong yet fragile and has the ability to change (through elemental contact), much like the body.

Angela Louise Powell channels energy through a monolithic sheet of brass. This metal is highly conductive, and carries the memory of the artist’s body in its newly contoured topography. Hammered and punctured, it presents a seductive reminiscence of actioning and transformation, becoming a conduit for liminality. Its mirrored surface demonstrates an emotional threshold, a physical boundary though accessible as a psychical veil, reflecting the psychological space constructed within this underground civic corridor – a place between platforms, and therefore states of mind.

Natasha Johns-Messenger reminds us that seeing can be an oracular action. In her site-specific installation, architecture becomes the new framework to experience the future and the past. It is a reflexive moment – a moment when we witness seeing ourselves see. In a way, it is like realising the stars we see in the night sky are no longer. It is beyond memory, it is present. And this is a high-tenor performance, wherein all the cosmologies of the world reverberate upon the glassy pane at once. Perception, then, is a clairvoyant distillation, and vision must be second-sight.  

Jake Treacy mythologises the history of place. Within this dilapidated vitrine, rests a monolithic soap block in hues of marbled pink alluding to the goddess Aphrodite. In the myth of her birth she washes upon the shore in a pearlescent carriage, emerging from the seafoam fully grown. Hers is a symbol of fertility, and similarly new thoughts may arise like pearls from the oceanic depths of our memory. As water washes through the vitrine the block becomes activated, cleansing the space and filling it with the scent of myrtle and rose – sacred attributes of Aphrodite.

ShengYang Zhu tracks the celestial dance of the sun above, and how its healing, floating trajectory through the sky nourishes the earth below. Employing traditional Chinese medicine, she has alchemically dyed silk swaths with vegetables and plants, allowing their natural colours to remedy and imbibe restorative attributes into the textiles. Individually they are the therapeutic tools to rebalance the body, and collectively serve as colour meditations, like a solar banner wavering between dawn and dusk.

Ben Taranto offers prismatic visions through the flames of a fire, where the majesty of light is refracted and reconfigured through a new jewel-encrusted topography. These fragments of glass translate light as the sun does when reflected upon the veins of rivers from an aerial vantage, creating a permeance through kaleidoscopic-geographic veneration. However this crystalline monolith also recalls a portal of modern technology, broadcasting a microcosmic vision of the altering effects waste portends upon the landscape. Like a screen it draws you in and keeps you there; it pushes and pulls; it is the endless dim of a setting sun upon the horizon of a slow burning ocean.

Ria Green romances our sensibilities through a hazy lens, allowing our senses of awe and wonder to take flight into a place amongst clouds. Ephemeral moments are remembered through glassy surfaces, vistas recalling the sublime often experienced in nature. Her painting explores an evocative landscape of the imagination and of experience, using abstraction as a field for feeling and photography as personal memory. Some moments are opaque and we find ourselves in a grove of blossoming colour; other times voids of transparency allow us to slip into other celestial realms, moving beyond the picture plane and the present.

Nanou Dupuis sweeps a fluid gesture across a transparent film; in one calligraphic motion, a single wave washes in poetic articulation, like a vaporous plume drifting across mountains, or a black dragon snaking through clouds. Her painting is an action and cascades the architecture of space, pushing interior and exterior worlds, pulsing duality between what is seen and unseen, light and shadow, tension and flow. Her materials are mixtures of organic minerals and synthetic pigments, providing a new language of alchemy that speaks the visual experience of transcendence, beyond consciousness.

Uri Auerbach makes a machine for mediation. The capsule space has been transformed into something of an incandescent Zen garden, cultivating mindfulness. Like a constellation of memories and thoughts, the lights glow and extinguish across an infinite mirror, singing a luminous chorus between dusk and dawn, east and west. In the darkness we enter into a new meditative headspace: like a spark in the night, a thought ignites, setting off a phosphorous chain reaction of reveries and ruminations. These tidal rhythms of electricity are on an infinite loop, an electric river of unpredictable sequences. To be enlightened, we must surrender to the twin processes of time and repetition – repetition as a symbol of circularity, continuity and acceptance.

Vivian Cooper Smith casts stones across time into ambiguous formations. In his site-specific paste-ups the imagery depicts his grandfather’s rock collection, collected from across Australia and demonstrating the passing of time and ultimately mortality. However, the wisdom of the stones resonate personal memories, collected and stored into their mineral veins. Stranded far from the landscape from where they were torn they hover between now and then, here and there, and between presence and absence.  The passing of time may wash over us all and like the stone, smooth out those rough surfaces into a more patient and resilient version of ourselves.

“Mnemosyne, said the Greeks, is the mother of the Muses; the Greeks, who invented many arts, invented an art of memory…the most fundamental and elusive of human powers that will plunge us into deep waters.”

-          Frances Yates, The Art of Memory (1966)

"There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness …I must intoxicate myself on magic perfumes in order to fathom the secrets that lie hidden in the abysses of the Unconscious."

-           Carl Jung, The Dionysian Self (1911)

Threading The glacier head Looking hard for Moments of shine From twilight To twilight Utter mundane

A mountain shade Suggests your shape I wish to melt Into you

Spark the sun off me

-          Björk, Vespertine (2001)

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Under the cut you will find a complete and updated list of my digital and physical bookshelf. I will try to include a free PDF version (both in Spanish and English if it’s possible), so any of the links are broken, let me know! (★: my favourites, E:PDF in English, S: PDF in Spanish, SS: short story). All links are safe (tried them all) and I’ll keep updating the original post! You can ask me for titles to add here.

★The song of Achilles, Madeline Miller (2011) E / S

★The secret history, Donna Tartt (1992) E / S

★All for the game, Nora Sakavic

The foxhole court (2013) E

The raven king (2013) E

The King’s men (2014) E

★Six of crows, Leigh Bardugo

Six of crows (2015) E / S

Crooked kingdom (2016) E / S

★Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2012) E / S

★The Iliad, Homer. E / S

★The raven cycle, Maggie Stiefvater

The raven boys (2012) E / S

The dream thieves (2013) E / S

Blue lily, lily blue (2014) E / S

The raven king (2016) E / S

[SS] Opal (2018) E

★Captive prince, CS Pacat

Captive prince (2012) E / S

Prince’s gambit (2012) E / S

Kings rising (2016) E / S

[SS] Green but for a season (2016) E

[SS] The summer palace (2017) E

[SS] The Adventures of Charls (2017) E

[SS] Pet (2018) E

★Vicious, VE Schwab (2013) E / S

★The gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue, Mackenzi Lee (2017) E / S

★The casual vacancy, J.K. Rowling (2012) E / S

★The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Mark Haddon (2003) E / S

★We are the ants, Shaun David Hutchinson (2016) E

★The hunger games, Suzanne Collins

The hunger games (2008) E / S

Catching fire (2009) E / S

Mockingjay (2010) E / S

★ Circe, Madeline Miller (2018) E

The inexplicable logic of my life, Benjamin Alire Saenz (2017) E / S

The goldfinch, Donna Tartt (2013) E / S

It devours!, Joseph Fink (2017) E

The art of being normal, Lisa Williamson (2015) E / S

The miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth (2012)

The perks of being a wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (1999) E / S

El cuaderno de Maya, Isabel Allende (2011) S

Every heart a doorway, Seanan McGuire (2016) E

All the crooked saints, Maggie Stiefvater (2017) E

The watchmaker of Filigree street, Natasha Pulley (2015) E

Maze runner, James Dashner

The maze runner (2009) E / S

The scorch trials (2010) E / S

The death cure (2011) E / S

The kill order (2012) E / S

The fever code (2016) E / S

Doctor death, Lene Kaaberbøl (2015)

Lord of the flies, William Golding (1954) E / S

The Odyssey, Homer. E / S

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, Edith Hamilton (1942) E

Alexander the Great, Mary Renault

Fire from heaven (1969) E

The persian boy (1972) E

Funeral games (1981) E

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (1953) E / S

El juego de Ripper, Isabel Allende (2013) E

Matilda, Roald Dahl (1988) E / S

Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A study in scarlet (1887) E / S

The sign of four  (1890) E / S

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) E / S

The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) E / S

The hounds of Baskervilles (1902) E / S

The return of Sherlock Holmes (1904) E / S

The valley of fear (1915) E / S

His last bow (1917) E / S

The case-book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) E / S

The girl on the train, Paula Hawkins (2015) E / S

Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children, Ransom Riggs

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children(2011) E / S

Hollow city (2014) E

Library of souls (2015) E

The universe in a nutshell, Stephen Hawking (2001) E / S

Dead poets society, N.H. Kleinbaum (1988) E / S

Robin Hood, E / S

The travelling cat chronicles, Hiro Arikawa (2013)

I am the messenger, Mark Zusak (2002) E

Robert Langdon, Dan Brown

Angels and demons (2000) E / S

The Da Vinci code (2003) E / S

The lost symbol (2009) E / S

Inferno (2013) E / S

By John Green

The fault in our stars (2012) E / S

Looking for Alaska (2005) E / S

Paper towns (2008) E / S

The land of stories, Chris Colfer

The wishing spell (2012) E

The enchantress returns (2013) E

A Grimm warning (2014) E

Beyond the kingdoms (2015)

An author’s odyssey (2016)

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (2002) S

Struck by lightning, Chris Colfer (2012) E / S

We were liars, E. Lockhart (2014) E / S

By William Shakespeare

★Troilus and Cressida (1602) E / S

The merchant of Venice (1596) E / S

A midsummer night’s dream (1595) E / S

★Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett (1952) E / S

The little prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943) E / S

Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte, Horacio Quiroga (1917) S

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Somewhere Other

John Wardle

How to teleport between the canals and former shipyards and armoires of the Venetian Arsenale, and the wiry, fragrant Australian bush? The two vastly different but equally storied environments have been poetically linked in Somewhere Other – John Wardle Architects’ (JWA) layered and captivating installation for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition.

The Melbourne-based practice was invited by curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara to exhibit at the Arsenale and to respond to this year’s biennale subject: ‘Freespace’. 

Somewhere Other is JWA’s interpretation of the curator’s Freespace manifesto – a work that celebrates “architecture’s capacity to find additional and unexpected generosity.” The concertina timber structure, framed in delicate steel work, is made up of passageways and corridors that become an eye-piece or telescope to peer between two worlds. Visitors are drawn in to gaze through five different portals designed to transfer them Down Under and back to Venice again.

 Each portal plays with perspective and reflection to extend the space of the installation, with ques and references that capture both Venice and Australia. 

The spotted gum structure evokes the true scent of the bush, while a ‘Venetian portal’ features embedded chrome cone tapering outward, and an enormous mouth-blown burnt orange Murano glass tube created by Venetian master glassblower Leonardo Cimolin. Another portal features masks that are culturally significant to each place: the classic hook-nosed Venetian mask, and the iron helmet of legendary bushranger Ned Kelley. 

Also included is Australian artist Natasha Johns-Messenger’s mirrors, and ethereal films by Melbourne-based creative studio, Coco and Maximilian. Joinery is by Jacaranda Industries, and steel by Derek John. 

“Somewhere Other is an elaborate instrument to bridge across distance, it invites the visitor to enter and experience ‘somewhere other’ spatially rather than simply as an object,” John Wardle explained. 

“Our intention is to connect the visitor with places beyond the immediate space.”

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Social media and cinema trailer for the exhibition Sitelines: Natasha Johns-Messenger

[actutrends]

4 reporters review the week of Trump’s impeachment

We asked our group of reporters covering the Trump presidency and impeachment to reflect on Wednesday’s vote and make forecasts for a looming Senate trial.

For the history books, what will you remember from this previous week?

Kyle Cheney, Congress press reporter: I’ll always keep in mind the dead sensation inside the Home chamber in the hours leading up to the impeachment vote. There was no suspense, no unexpected surprise on either side of the aisle– in brief, it was the polar opposite of the Clinton impeachment, which veterans of the age like John Bresnahan and Susan Glasser inform me included far more uncertainty and strength in its final moments.

Anita Kumar, White House press reporter: For me, it was that astounding split screen moment– the House begins voting on impeachment in Washington simply as Trump take the phase at a project rally in Michigan. He ended up being just the 3rd president to be impeached while headlining among his Make America Great Again rallies in front of countless adoring fans. Trump babbled on for 2 hours about whatever from the economy and trade to dim light bulbs and toilet water pressure. However he likewise addressed the historical minute TV networks were at the same time showing. “It doesn’t actually feel like we’re being impeached,” he told the crowd. “The country is doing better than ever before, we not did anything incorrect, and we have significant support in the Republican politician Celebration.”

Natasha Bertrand, national security correspondent: I believed Majority Leader Steny Hoyer gave a very unforgettable closing argument on Wednesday. And awakening to the IMPEACHED headings sprinkled throughout the country’s newspapers was clearly historical. However I concur with Anita– it was rather surreal to hear Trump discussing the Space Force, nuclear submarines, and a pilot that looked like Tom Cruise simply as your house protected the votes to impeach him.

Darren Samuelsohn, senior press reporter: I’ll remember the scene inside the House chamber too: The Republicans clustered throughout the day in a bunch of seats around Doug Collins while he handled the dispute and Nancy Pelosi sitting near the back for much of the proceedings, signing what seemed a stack of vacation cards. The argument itself was foreseeable as was the outcome of the vote. However there was still something to the energy in the space. It was still a presidential impeachment– something that had not happened in my 20 years covering Washington, and who knows if we will ever see another.

What should we make from the Pelosi strategy of holding back the impeachment short articles?

Kyle: This is uncharted constitutional surface, and Pelosi seems to be exploiting it to ratchet up pressure on the Senate to promise a fair trial. The easiest takeaway is that there are essentially no guidelines in impeachment since the Constitution prescribes extremely couple of and the 3 previous impeachment efforts were so noticeably distinct that it’s difficult to draw precedent from any of them.

Anita: Pelosi is most likely hanging on to the posts to promote McConnell for a trial more to Democrats taste in the Senate. Her delay has gotten under Trump’s skin, according to some Republicans close to him. He has been calling people to ask why Pelosi has actually delayed and what he can do about it. (Response: Not much.) That’s since he sees a Senate trial as a way he can vindicate himself and humiliate Democrats.He’s convinced if Americans hear from the whistleblower, to name a few, at the trial they will see he didn’t pressure Ukraine and he will be exonerated, not simply acquitted in a partisan treatment. Pelosi’s post ponement puts his attempt out of reach– a minimum of momentarily.

Natasha: Pelosi minimized the relocation in an interview with POLITICO on Thursday, but it’s difficult to anticipate how this will play out. A quick delay, while Pelosi decides who will be the impeachment managers as the Senate works out the rules for the procedures, would not be extraordinary (see: the Clinton impeachment trial). One leading Democrat, Rep. Jim Clyburn, told CNN on Thursday that he would support waiting “as long as it takes” to send the articles till Republican Senate leaders set terms that Democrats perceive as reasonable. Trump and his attorneys, meanwhile, are reportedly exploring whether the hold-up indicates Trump technically hasn’t been impeached at all.

Darren: I notice Pelosi is maximizing the banner heading impacts from the impeachment vote and letting it wash around a bit in the country’s mind– not to discuss tormenting Trump and his allies by leaving it hanging whether there will even be a Senate trial. There’s of course House-Senate power dynamics at play here. And there are all manner of outcomes when this is stated and done but Pelosi has now efficiently let the plot of Wednesday’s vote stick around through the vacation break. Trump obviously understands how to alter a story and I can’t even begin to count the ways he may do that through the early part of January. Congress will be back in town soon enough after a welcome break there are still lots of more chapters to be composed on this story.

Who do you think will be the most efficient House impeachment manager( s)?

Kyle: Adam Schiff has been Democrats’ best impeachment messenger from the outset.

Darren: Presuming there is a Senate trial (and that now is an ‘if’ provided the newest brinkmanship), I imagine we’ll be seeing a great bit not simply of Schiff but also some of the faces from the Judiciary Committee beyond Chairman Jerry Nadler. Florida Rep. Ted Deutch struck me as somebody throughout the House hearings who articulated the impeachment case well. Eric Swalwell’s rounds of witness questioning have gone viral more than when, and the former prosecutor has actually stated he approached the impeachment procedure like a trial. He’s likewise one of the few members who sits on both the Intelligence and Judiciary committees, so would be one sensible option for an impeachment manager.

There will be a lot of effective individuals on the Senate flooring during the trial. Who are you most anticipating speaking with?

Darren: Hard to know who exactly the Trump group sets up however this effectively might be the first time we hear anything out of the mouth in public from White House Counsel Pat Cipollone. Does he embody the political spirit of his employer and utilize the kind of firey language we’ve seen in a few of his letters to Congress? Or does he take a more lawyerly approach to the trial and work to beat back conviction on the benefits of the case? We reported previously today the president was seeking to have some Home GOP members help make his case on the flooring too. If that happens we’ll probably get the benefit of seeing Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan– not really an attorney, however still a very effective supporter– wearing a fit jacket again.

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5 reporters review the week of Trump's impeachment

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5 reporters review the week of Trump's impeachment

We asked our team of reporters covering the Trump presidency and impeachment to reflect on Wednesday’s vote and make predictions for a looming Senate trial.

For the history books, what will you remember from this past week?

Kyle Cheney, Congress reporter:I’ll always remember the dead feeling inside the House chamber in the hours leading up to the impeachment vote. There was a lifeless, checking-the-box feeling to the six-hour debate. Not only did we know the outcome, we knew the precise vote count with the exception of the lone “present” vote. There was no suspense, no sudden epiphany on either side of the aisle — in short, it was the polar opposite of the Clinton impeachment, which veterans of the era like John Bresnahan and Susan Glasser tell me included far more uncertainty and intensity in its final moments.

Anita Kumar, White House reporter:For me, it was that unbelievable split screen moment — the House begins voting on impeachment in Washington just as Trump take the stage at a campaign rally in Michigan. He became only the third president to be impeached while headlining one of his Make America Great Again rallies in front of thousands of adoring fans. Trump rambled on for two hours about everything from the economy and trade to dim light bulbs and toilet water pressure. But he also addressed the historic moment TV networks were simultaneously showing. “It doesn’t really feel like we’re being impeached,” he told the crowd. “The country is doing better than ever before, we did nothing wrong, and we have tremendous support in the Republican Party.”

Natasha Bertrand, national security correspondent:I thought Majority Leader Steny Hoyer gave a very memorable closing argument on Wednesday. And waking up to the IMPEACHED headlines splashed across the country’s newspapers was obviously historic. But I agree with Anita — it was somewhat surreal to hear Trump talking about the Space Force, nuclear submarines, and a pilot that looked like Tom Cruise just as the House secured the votes to impeach him.

Darren Samuelsohn, senior reporter:I’ll remember the scene inside the House chamber too: The Republicans clustered throughout the day in a bunch of seats around Doug Collins while he managed the debate and Nancy Pelosi sitting near the back for much of the proceedings, signing what looked to be a stack of holiday cards. The debate itself was predictable as was the outcome of the vote. But there was still something to the energy in the room. It was still a presidential impeachment — something that hadn’t happened in my 20 years covering Washington, and who knows if we will ever see another.

What should we make of the Pelosi strategy of holding back the impeachment articles?

Kyle:This is uncharted constitutional terrain, and Pelosi seems to be exploiting it to ratchet up pressure on the Senate to promise a fair trial. The simplest takeaway is that there are virtually no rules in impeachment because the Constitution prescribes very few and the three previous impeachment efforts were so markedly distinct that it’s hard to draw precedent from any of them. Pelosi knows this, and Democrats think they’re about to be railroaded in the Senate without even the opportunity to present a case worthy of a courtroom, so the sense seems to be why not play hardball in this constitutional gray area?

Anita:Pelosi is presumably holding on to the articles to push for McConnell for a trial more to Democrats liking in the Senate. But her delay has gotten under Trump’s skin, according to some Republicans close to him. He has been calling people to ask why Pelosi has postponed and what he can do about it. (Answer: Not much.) That’s because he sees a Senate trial as a way he can vindicate himself and embarrass Democrats.He’s convinced if Americans hear from the whistleblower, among others, at the trial they will see he didn’t pressure Ukraine and he will be exonerated, not just acquitted in a partisan procedure. Pelosi’s postponement puts his attempt out of reach — at least temporarily..

Natasha: Pelosi downplayed the move in an interview with POLITICO on Thursday, but it’s hard to predict how this will play out. A brief delay, while Pelosi decides who will be the impeachment managers as the Senate works out the rules for the proceedings, would not be unprecedented (see: the Clinton impeachment trial). But one top Democrat, Rep. Jim Clyburn, told CNN on Thursday that he would support waiting “as long as it takes” to send the articles until Republican Senate leaders set terms that Democrats perceive as fair. Trump and his lawyers, meanwhile, are reportedly exploring whether the delay means Trump technically hasn’t been impeached at all.

Darren:I sense Pelosi is maximizing the banner headline effects from the impeachment vote and letting it wash around a bit in the country’s psyche — not to mention tormenting Trump and his allies by leaving it hanging whether there will even be a Senate trial. There’s of course House-Senate power dynamics at play here. And there are all manner of outcomes when this is said and done but Pelosi has now effectively let the story line of Wednesday’s vote linger through the holiday break. Trump of course knows how to change a narrative and I can’t even begin to count the ways he might do that through the early part of January. But Congress will be back in town soon enough after a welcome break there are still many more chapters to be written on this story.

Who do you think will be the most effective House impeachment manager(s)?

Kyle:Adam Schiff has been Democrats’ best impeachment messenger from the outset. However the House constructs its team of managers, he’ll be at the center making the case on the facts of the Ukraine investigation. The one drawback is he’s become such a reviled figure to Republicans, whose disdain for him often seems more personal than political, that no matter the points he makes, he’ll be viewed through a sharply partisan prism.

Darren:Assuming there is a Senate trial (and that now is an ‘if’ given the latest brinkmanship), I imagine we’ll be seeing a good bit not just of Schiff but also some of the faces from the Judiciary Committee beyond Chairman Jerry Nadler. Florida Rep. Ted Deutch struck me as someone during the House hearings who articulated the impeachment case well. Another Floridian to watch (Ok, maybe I’m showing my native Sunshine State bias here), is Rep. Val Demings, who leaned on her own law enforcement background during the hearings as a former Orlando police chief.

Natasha:Rep.Eric Swalwell’s rounds of witness questioning have gone viral more than once, and the former prosecutor has said he approached the impeachment process like a trial. He’s also one of the few members who sits on both the Intelligence and Judiciary committees, so would be one logical choice for an impeachment manager.

There will be a lot of powerful people on the Senate floor during the trial. Who are you most looking forward to hearing from?

Darren:Hard to know who exactly the Trump team puts up but this very well could be the first time we hear anything out of the mouth in public from White House Counsel Pat Cipollone. Does he embody the political spirit of his boss and use the kind of firey language we’ve seen in some of his letters to Congress? Or does he take a more lawyerly approach to the trial and work to beat back conviction on the merits of the case? We reported earlier this week the president was looking to have some House GOP members help make his case on the floor too. If that happens we’ll probably get the bonus of seeing Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan — not actually a lawyer, but still a very effective advocate — wearing a suit jacket again.

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A First For Australian Architects At The 2018 Venice Biennale

A First For Australian Architects At The 2018 Venice Biennale

Architecture

by Elle Murrell

The John Wardle Architects team and assistants preparing their installation for Venice. Photo – courtesy of John Wardle Architects.

‘Somewhere Other’ installation. Photo – courtesy of John Wardle Architects.

The eponymous architecture firm lead by John Wardle (pictured centre) was one of only who Australian firms invited to create an exhibition for the Biennale Architettura 2018 main showcase, Freespace.Photo – courtesy of John Wardle Architects.

The Melbourne-based architecture firm collaborated with Murano glassblower Leonardo Cimolin. Photo – courtesy of John Wardle Architects.

Installation concept sketch. Photo – courtesy of John Wardle Architects.

The installation is clad in spotted gum, featuring joinery by Jacaranda Industries. Photo – courtesy of John Wardle Architects.

Its series of portals and thresholds that orchestrate various forms of engagement, from the most intimate to the most social. Photo – courtesy of John Wardle Architects.

‘Venetian Portal’ detail. Photo – courtesy of John Wardle Architects.

All the components traveled from Australia to Venice in two shipping containers. Photo – courtesy of John Wardle Architects.

The dynamic and immersive installation incorporated the work of artist Natasha Johns-Messenger, as well as filmmakers Coco and Maximilian. Photo – courtesy of John Wardle Architects.

Two massive shipping containers left Australian shores bound for Venice. There, there were met by the team of specialist contractors, who had constructed the contents back in OZ. Next, the team from John Wardle Architects, along with collaborators: artist Natasha Johns-Messenger, filmmakers Coco and Maximilian, and Murano glassblower Leonardo Cimolin, set about the monumental task of assembling their elements into Somewhere Other, a vast installation worthy of La Biennale di Venezia.

‘It’s an idea formed around the theme of translation, and working between two distinctly different places: Australia and Venice,’ explains founding principal John Wardle. ‘To make this connection between “somewhere” and “other” we determined our exhibition to be a series of portals and thresholds that orchestrate various forms of engagement, from the most intimate to the most social, with opportunities for entering within, or standing back and observing.’

The result is a meticulously constructed installation, which joiners Jacaranda Industries have clad in spotted gum, an Australian native hardwood. Integrated throughout the structure’s viewing points and thresholds are a series of screen-like mirrors and films – by artist Natasha Johns-Messenger and filmmakers Coco and Maximilian, respectively – as well as an intriguing optical device created in collaboration with Venetian glass master Leonardo Cimolin.

‘The capacity of Natasha’s work to confound perception and challenge what and how we see things led us to invite her into our project for Venice,’ details John. Meanwhile, Coco and Maximilian’s six short films cover John Wardle Architects projects. But rather than merely document, they creatively explore emotional engagement with architectural space.

One end of the Somewhere Other installation tapers to a viewing portal, inspired by both Venetian carnival masks and the horizontal eye slit in legendary bushranger Ned Kelly’s iron helmet. ‘It’s suggestive of the way we engage with interior space,’ explains John of the view.

At the other end, is a U-shaped passageway where a film, presenting a journey through passages, windows and door openings, is projected at human scale. At the same time, two of Natasha’s angled mirrors create an engaging illusion, enfolding viewers in the projection.

A final ‘Venetian Portal’ can be viewed from that same U-shaped passageway. This polished chrome cone extends through funnel-shaped Venetian glass by master craftsman Leonardo Cimolin. Uniquely, this viewpoint has an opposite function to the other two, focusing a viewer’s attention inward on the architectural pavilion space before them, rather than elsewhere… somewhere other!

Curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, Freespace, runs from May 26th to November 25th.

To accompany the exhibition, John Wardle Architects has commissioned a monograph, Somewhere Other: John Wardle Architects, by Uro Publications.