The residency couldn’t have come at a better time for me. I was at a point where my practice as an artist was evolving in other paths, and I felt the need to be away from home for a period of time to begin the initial research. Also, after the year 2020 which...
Circling the tower at sunrise with the swallows, Civitella was a place of stillness, where movement slipped into words and words spilled into music....
Quando sono in tour, mangio molto poco. Eppure qui, per la prima volta in tanti anni, mi veniva sempre fame alle sette di sera, quasi me la prendevo con me stessa. Come potevo permettermi di avere fame? Questa è stata una grande rivelazione per me: mi sono resa conto...
Civitella was life changing in a structural way. The time there brought on a kind of rewiring of priorities. As if the things that were stewing on back burners were allowed their time to flourish, to come into being and the results were unexpected and will continue to...
My time at Civitella has been one of the most productive and nurturing periods of my life as a writer. I was able to find a deep and sustained focus that has been neary impossible lin the year of the pandemic, a year that has marked all of us, and the world, forever....
