UK. Make the Cake: 1. Preheat the oven to 350»F. Butter three 9-inch round or 8-inch square cake pans. Line with parchment or waxed paper and butter the paper.
UK. “I have these obsessions I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, the ruptured surface, with scars and traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment … it is metaphysical.” Sophie Ristelhueber
UK.
I said to myself: three days
and you’ll be seven years old.
I was saying it to stop
the sensation of falling off
the round, turning world.
into cold, blue-black space.
But I felt: you are an I,
you are an Elizabeth,
you are one of them.
-Elizabeth Bishop, The Waiting Room
UK. A lie is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement, especially with the intention to deceive others, often with the further intention to maintain a secret or reputation, protect someone’s feelings or to avoid a punishment or repercussion for one’s actions. To lie is to state something that one knows to be false or that one does not honestly believe to be true with the intention that a person will take it for the truth.
UK A distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation. Distortion is usually unwanted, and often many methods are employed to minimize it in practice. In some fields, however, distortion is actually desirable.
UK. A ritual is a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value. It may be prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community. The term usually excludes actions which are arbitrarily chosen by the performers, or dictated purely by logic, chance, necessity, etc.
UK. Venue: SPACE Gallery, University of Portsmouth, Eldon Building, Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth, PO1 2DJ Opening hours: Monday – Friday 10-4pm only Dates: 15th February – 5th March 2010 Public talk: Wednesday 17th February at 2pm www.katayoundowlatshahi.com
