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anima
ama

-PREAMBLE

To the sensitive side.
To the intimate.

To the intangible threshold.

To the limit.
To the discreet opulence.
To the detail.

To the ornament.
To the collective imagination.

To its archetypes.
To the silent symmetry.

To the curvature of a light.
To the immutable matter.

To tellurism.
To the wonderment.
To words.


To memory.

ARCHITECTURE

INTERIOR DECORATION

FURNITURE DESIGN

ama: (Japanese) sky, firmament.

anima: (Latin) breath, soul.

"[...]To the anima belongs the reverie which experiences the present of happy images. In happy hours, we know a reverie which feeds on itself, which maintains itself as life maintains itself. Tranquil images, gifts of that great insouciance which is the essence of the feminine, support each other, balance each other in the peace of the anima… Pure daydreaming, filled with images is a manifestation of the anima… In any case , it is in the realm of images that, pensive philosophers, we seek the benefits of the anima. The images of water give any dreamer the intoxication of femininity…[...]"

Gaston Bachelard,Poetics of Reverie, 1984.

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