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“I think what we have achieved is only

Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:19 am
by sharminsultana
Like Agha, another participant of the show, Safaa Erruas, chose needles to perform her art. her two Parallel paths, with metallic thread and ink on cotton paper, suggest maps of the human body as well as of the earth. Holes drilled in perpetual lines with protruding metal ends divided into two halves allude to the human diaphragm with a gap in the middle. Whatever the reading, the works of Erruas plunge into the pain of human experience, of a territory, of a body, since it surprisingly associates hair and rough vegetation on a desert plane. The white of his favorite surfaces transmits light, but it is the light of the soul to which we relate like all other artists, because being at this extraordinary exhibition we experience The Unbearable Lightness of Being – again and again.Inside Melbourne commune where members must disagree with each other
“We argue… most of the time we agree and disagree,” says Sandy Kouroupidis, a multi-faith resident of the Faith Communities Council of Victoria.

“It gets vocal… but in the end we laugh… and Father John, you like fighting.”

Father John, who is retired but still says mass in various parishes phone number library around Melbourne, pauses before conceding that his comrade might be right.

“Sometimes I would have a more definitive point of view than sometimes I feel [is] a little less flexible than Sandy’s… so I wish I got upset, ”he said.

the tip of the iceberg… but it requires extraordinary sensitivity.”

Curious grouping is the antithesis of much of what happens in the modern world, where everyone has an opinion but it seems that many have lost the ability to tolerate opposing opinions.

Father John Dupuche in one of the ashram’s meditation huts.Credit:Jason South

“It’s a fellowship, a caring fellowship,” says Father John, who teaches spirituality, meditation, and interfaith relations at the Theological University.