Maria Sofronie

Pi Weapon is a weapon born not of brute force, but of transformation. The spiral carves through illusion, unraveling the veils that shroud truth. It is both ward and blade, a guardian of the gate. Its curves echo the movement of the psyche—never linear, always in motion, seeking the hidden center. To wield it is to walk the path of individuation,

Quest: The Silent Gate—Spirit Ashes

Spirit Ashes are summonable companions that aid the player in combat. After receiving the Spirit Calling Bell, the player may summon any acquired Spirit Ash by paying its cost when in range of a Rebirth Monument.

Location: In the valley of the ether, beneath the columns of the cloud temple

Summoned creature(s):

Lurking on the margins of our space-time continuum, this merry crew of Outer Gods and Great Old Ones are now attempting to invade our world through science and dream and horrid rites.

The word “fan” comes from fanaticus, an ancient term for a temple devotee, and Lovecraft fans exhibit the unflagging devotion, fetishism and sectarian debates that

The document analyzes the First Sanayeh Plastic Arts Meeting, held October 5-8, 1995, in Beirut’s Ren Mouawad Sanayeh Garden, organized by Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for the Plastic Arts.​

Background and Context

• The event was the first of several public art interventions in postwar Beirut and marked a turning point in Lebanese art

Systems of values imposed by morphology

Atmospheres. We cannot not live in atmospheres. We living beings, we critters. We animated matter. We buzzing particles. Right from the start, when breathing, when metabolizing, in pain, in joy, in motion, when dancing, communicating, when we love, read, dream, when we are creating artistically; at the moment of death, as long as we live—now.

Phenomenological Reduction-

1. I've always enjoyed envisioning and designing the objects and scenes around me, it became a way of comforting myself. I started imagining different worlds afterwards and characters and it felt like home.

2. The stories that I accumulated over the years really influence the worldbuilding of my fantasy worlds that lay within me, in my art they mostly

be born

grow

and die

become a flower

that nourishes everything around

from visual to tangible

and with her body

feeds the soil

in silence