Bøger af Tina Ridlon

I used to believe in love. I believed that the innate good of people could be more powerful than the evil represented in the world. I believed that a mother's love for a child was the purest love that existed.I don't believe in anything now.No freedom. No autonomy. No identity. Two years after a single, vengeful act ripped everything away, all prisoner 35879-045 has is her own mind. Only her memories of the time before to combat the utter isolation of solitary confinement. So many others have had their sanity wrenched from them in the crushing solitude of their cells, their psyches snapped beyond repair. But she isn't like them. She knows who she is. She will not lose herself.A creeping, claustrophobic dive into the effects of isolation on the human mind, Solitary is a story of love, loss and, above all, the art of survival.

In Spirit Cooking, Tina provides her personal musings on the change of perspective, on fireflies, on scars, on ceremonies and on rituals. Contemplations on interconnectedness of human and nature. The urge to dive deep into the roots of mother earth but at the same time the want to remain rootless. Because life is movement. The book provides a concatenation of events that reflects the author's perception of life as a whole.Her observations are keys to present issues of wars and conflicts. The strength of numbers. Vandalism of sacred ruins. Significance of Roots of one's origin. A harmony in the amalgamation of opposites. Lost innocence. Lost children.The author observes Marina Abramovi¿ through several performances. As an observer of the time that is passed now. She tries to find the answers to these individual and social emotions in the art performances of Abramovi¿.