Sabrina Dalla Valle Publications

This is not a fatal cancer story about grief and loss It is a spiritual mass for those who never fully depart—just transcend. Part cinéma vérité, part ancient wisdom written in direct, sparse language with fragments of old diaries and letters, this mixed-genre lyrical journal documents an uncanny relationship between illness and the symbolic world. It follows two years of observations about a woman inhabiting psychic places where the dying go to transform a body and a history into a pure ideal.Please see Bottle Cap Press for reviews and purchase.

The Night House is both a hospice and a maternity ward for the death and rebirth of suns, where, in the midst of corporeal and cosmic collapse, a redeeming mystery remains: ‘My mother finds new centers’.
—Aaron Cheak, Rubedo Press

Edited by Aaron Cheak, PhD &

Sabrina Dalla Valle, MFA

DIAPHANY is an international peer-reviewed volume dedicated to the living confluence of poetic, phenomenological and empirical perceptions of reality. The concept of diaphany is drawn from the work of German poet and Kulturphilosoph, Jean Gebser. For Gebser, transparency (Durchsichtigkeit) is that which renders both darkness and light present. Diaphany is designed accordingly as both a journal (from French jour, ‘day’) and a nocturne—a hymn to the night. Drawing from both the arts and sciences, and then dissolving their boundaries, Diaphany weds the vital, experiential dimension of reality to rigorous, source-based research. Diaphany seeks work that makes the invisible visible and the eternal tangible according to a Kandinskian ‘inner necessity’ (innere Notwendigkeit).

Curated by Sabrina Dalla Valle

The Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida used to say "one should not forget that future and past are contemporary." How do writers in 2018 see through a century?

We are a group of Tampa Bay and San Francisco Bay authors investigating how our current realities play on our interpretation of one-hundred-year-old photographs from these 2 port town sites of immigration and industry.

Ching-In Chen, Amber Di Pietra, Sabrina Dalla Valle, Eleanor Eichenbaum, Charles F. (Fred) Hearns, Tenea D. Johnson, Gloria Muñoz,

Paul Wilborn

To be a philosopher, a lover of wisdom, is to fall in love with fragments of unity, like the great Heraclitus who millennia ago said all things are one, no in and out, no I and Thou, no honey and venom. For the Greeks the bee was spirit and Dalla Valle has given us this vision of Unity, the humble bee as emissary to know tiny bits of energy as infinity. It is a perfect contemplation to know that in our gathering we and the bee are one.

- Richard G. Geldard, PhD, author of Emerson and Universal Mind and Remembering Heraclitus

Edited by Lawrence Rinder, contributions by: Nicholas Dirks, Sabrina Dalla Valle, Padma Maitland, Spyros Papapetros, Lisa Robertson and Rebecca Solnit.

Published in conjunction with BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition in its new building designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, "Architecture of Life" explores the ways that architecture—as concept, metaphor, and practice—illuminates various aspects of life experience: the nature of the self and psyche, the fundamental structures of reality, and the power of the imagination to reshape our world.