Incense dreams Journal - ISSUE 2nd - DREAM

Oscar Luparia (Vercelli, 1956) is a trade union leader.
Haiku, mountains (trekking), and the history of engraving are his main
passions.
Other interests and vices (in no particular order): cinema, tea, pipes, cheese,
cats, motorcycling. Without forgetting photography, through which, as it
happens when writing a haiku, he can satisfy his desire to "discover" and to
stop the moment. With only one good photo, it‘s sometimes possible to tell
many different stories ...
He approached the classical Japanese poetry about fifteen years ago; since
then he got several awards in the most important Italian haiku contests.
His first anthology of haiku, ―The Moment that remains‖, was published in
2010, followed by a second printed book in 2012, ―Turn the Page‖, and by
the eBooks ―Haiku‘s high Route‖ (2014), ―In the Teacup‖ (2015).
Since 2011 he is a member in the jury of the International Haiku Contest
annually promoted by the Italian cultural association ―Cascina Macondo‖.
Sergio Giannotta was born in 1965 in Catania, Italy where he studied
(Artistic High School and Academy of Fine Arts) and still lives.
After initial experiences in the field of painting he approached photography:
since 2005 he began to deal it steadily, with coherence, by participating in
qualified exhibitions and a variety of contests.
Speaking of himself, he claims not be a photographer but a creator of
images, small visions, intimate fragments. He thinks that through the
language of art it‘s possible to find clarity within yourself by talking with
your unconscious part to start a genuine introspective path.
"I believe that art can simplify thought and lighten the bonds of matter" –
he says – ―thus allowing the crucial passage from dark to light, whose
ultimate purpose is to understand not only ourselves but humanity and the
universe in their entirety.
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