Irina Writes

Month: March 2017

  • The design lesson.

    The design lesson.

    Design flows with the purpose it meets and changes colour, material and shape to become a part of its environment every time it is created. It flows with the age it is created in and progresses with time. It renews for existing circumstances, though its past forms are regarded as important milestones on the timeline…

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  • The Hunger & The Iris.

    I wonder what God makes of the iris, the part of the human eye that controls how much light and information we perceive and process. It seems to me that the entire world enters our existence through this small part of our eye. What a pressure it must be under. For instance, my dark brown…

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  • The Argyll Arms.

    The Argyll Arms.

    I started Sunday in a seemingly British fashion and went to the pub for breakfast. Alas, this is no ordinary pub as The Argyll Arms near Oxford Circus has been around since the 1800s. As a listed building, it will probably be around for many more years. Inside, I found mahogany partitions, chandeliers, lilies adorning…

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  • The Soup Kitchen Sanctuary.

    The Soup Kitchen Sanctuary.

    Some line up as early as six o’clock in the morning no matter what time of the year it is, even though the doors open at same time every week and there is always more than enough food to be had. Still, they come – little old ladies with grocery carts, middle aged men. Black,…

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