121.9 x 101.6 cm (48 x 40 in)
Price: $18,000
Davide Balliano s luscious paintings defy simple categorisation. Layers of plaster, gesso and varnish build up to create an illusion of three dimensions that suggest never ending space. There is something animated about his work the repetitive loops and optical play of black and white are dizzying and make for truly happy yet sophisticated paintings.
Courtesy of the artist and Cardi Gallery
UNTITLED 0174, 2020
60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Price: $24,000
In his use of a carefully constructed visual language of minimalist forms and repeating patterns, Davide Balliano’s paintings are at once both visually dynamic and unexpectedly vulnerable. What at first glance appears to be a restricted precise rendering of bold black and white forms, on closer look reveals subtle surfaces on which the artist scrapes back the apparent perfection. The combination of gently worked surfaces and weighty
Breath work, if done right, can reduce the knot in your stomach
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It might seem counterintuitive to take a breathing course – after all, can’t we all just do it? Isn’t breathing the one thing we’re all naturally excellent at? Yet in the last year or so, particularly with the cruel nature of Covid-19 sending stress levels through the roof, “breath work” has become big talk among the harbingers of health and fitness. People are even writing entire books about it.
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A state agency’s bid to protect water levels at Clay County’s shrunken Keystone Heights lakes is getting pushback from utilities including JEA, which on Monday could challenge plans that depend on pumping water through a 17-mile pipeline.
JEA likes the St. Johns River Water Management District’s plan to build the pipeline from Black Creek but worries it could be stuck paying an “inequitable” bill for $13 million.
“While we support the project … we have to do that with the customers in mind and what the financial impact might be,” CEO Jay Stowe told his board before it gave him a free hand last week to challenge the water agency (if needed) over a proposed rule to safeguard water levels in Lake Brooklyn and Lake Geneva.
But are the titans of testing standards being ushered out of existence by the pandemic?
Lauren Hawkins The Board of Regents for Louisiana, which governs minimum admission requirements for all public schools, have put emergency rules in place that allow all public institutions to potentially admit students who have not taken an ACT or an SAT, said Tre e George, Louisiana Tech University undergrad admissions director.
But it s not just public colleges and universities like LSU that have made changes. Private institutions like Centenary College in Shreveport are too.
Jeremy Johnston Students can choose to apply either test considered or test optional when submitting there application for Centenary, said Lauren Hawkins, Centenary College admissions associate director.
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