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Nuria Belastegui

Nuria Belastegui

Tracing Paths

No one can trace the path of the eels (Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us)

2 min readOct 21, 2022

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Tracing Paths

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Darkness Visible: Writing’s Permanent Impermanence. Tim Youd’s “100 Novels” Project

A typewriter. Inside the carriage, two sheets of paper, a top layer and its backing sheet. The top one is soaked in ink and heavily…

6 min readMay 20, 2022

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Darkness Visible: Writing’s Permanent Impermanence. Tim Youd’s “100 Novels” Project

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On the longing to connect

“The natural world thinks by transforming itself as a subject,” Andreas Weber explains in his book Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology…

2 min readJan 12, 2022

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On the longing to connect

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On Presence

“The photographer’s ardor for the subject … is, above all, an affirmation of the subject’s thereness.” (Susan Sontag, On Photography)

2 min readOct 14, 2021

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On Presence

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On Canada’s First Day for Truth and Reconciliation …

… I’d like to encourage everyone to read this book:

1 min readOct 1, 2021

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On Canada’s First Day for Truth and Reconciliation …

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Nuria Belastegui

Time and the poetry of the moment

“The photographer should allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment” Robert Doisneau

1 min readSep 11, 2021

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Time and the poetry of the moment

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Nuria Belastegui

Light and Shadow

Peaches. I love their taste, their velvety feel. How they look when they’re arranged in a bowl. Sensual in a way that is simple…

1 min readAug 12, 2021

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Light and Shadow

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A Beautiful Emptiness

“We are hypnotized by solitude, by the gaze of the solitary house.” Gaston Bachelard, “The Poetics of Space” (1958)

2 min readAug 7, 2021

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A Beautiful Emptiness

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Shadows

I took a picture of myself sitting down and contemplating the imprint my body had left on the floor. I’d had the idea of scattering…

2 min readJul 7, 2021

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Shadows

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Medusa’s Wrath?

[…] One day Neptune/ Found her and raped her, in Minerva’s temple/And the goddess turned away, and hid her eyes/Behind her shield, and…

3 min readMay 7, 2021

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Medusa’s Wrath?

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Nuria Belastegui

Nuria Belastegui

I’m a teacher and independent researcher living on the West Coast of Canada. I’m interested in the intersections between art and literature.

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