by celeste | Jan 21, 2026 | THE ITCH
Patti Smith’s “Bread of Angels” stands as a quiet yet resonant meditation on spiritual hunger, human fragility, and the enduring search for grace. Like much of Smith’s work across poetry, music, and memoir, the piece resists easy categorisation. It is neither sermon...
by itchysilk | Mar 8, 2018 | PHOTOGRAPHY
In this week’s #IntoTheDarkRoom our writer Alessia Scacchi looks at the controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. While he was known by and large for his agitating visual images, Alessia Scacchi considers a work that seeks to agitate thought processes...
