Alcôve

Alcôve

By Alisa Carroll

Society & CultureArtsReligion & SpiritualitySpiritualityVisual ArtsPlaces & Travel

What's Alcôve about?

In sacred space—a temple, an artist’s room, a scholar’s library—we feel atmosphere: the presence of the devotion and art, study and ritual, that have taken place within it over decades or centuries. On Alcôve, we enter into auratic places to explore aesthetics, spirituality, history, magic— those qualities we perceive in sacred space, and which open up that space within us. By talking with their keepers, descending into their foundations, and researching their objects and texts, we try to understand what is in the atmosphere of these extraordinary places.


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