Ale Olivieri

June 3, 2024

Overheard on Safari II

I have been collecting sayings for a while, there is magic and wisdom in half-overheard conversations or in great one-liners delivered in wild spaces. We seem to be able to breathe more freely in the wild and that’s when real life advice or just very odd phrases come out. Either way, they have all been…
March 31, 2024

The Wishing Tree

Airports have been a strange but soothing constant in my life. From a young age, dragged by my mother’s insatiable thirst for seeing new places I remember airports. I remember smells, I remember feelings, I bathrooms, I remember meals, I remember lounges, I remember much happiness, I remember much sorrow. I find a strange comfort…
October 8, 2023

Overhead on Safari I

Since as far as I can remember I have been a collector of people’s sayings. My grandmother used to have a book where she would write down famous quotes and sayings, and we would always be fascinated by the content. True to the way she was, she collected mostly insightful sayings with some sort of…
June 11, 2023

Mery

By Venezuelan standards, I have always been defined as an “intense” person. Not quite the same meaning as the English word carries I would imagine, but it gives an idea of a person constantly looking for something spiritual or emotional. Being an “intense” person in our slang just means you are one of those people…
October 9, 2022

Al agua.

Durante mucho tiempo me hizo falta el agua. Dicen que el agua son muchas dualidades: curación y sufrimiento, protección y vulnerabilidad, cambio y constancia, silencio y rabia. El agua en todo su esplendor es considerada purificadora del alma. Y así como el vaivén del agua, así a la deriva yo. De nadar a hundirme, de flotar…