While we’ve been sending letters, conversations, and findings into your inbox for over a year, it’s feeling like the right moment to slow down and check in; to return to the root system.
This newsletter is an outpost of Beauty School: an incubator for creative exploration dedicated to uncovering the universal principles that connect all forms of making. Beauty School comes from the collective brains, and hands, and conversations at Antica Terra, sparked by the greater ideas that illuminate the work that we do in this place.
But from the beginning, it’s been about making. About what it means to show up for life with purpose. To build something. To let it mark you. To pay attention. To keep going.
Making, for us, is the path back to beauty as a way of being, a kind of curriculum for treating it as a daily act of curiosity, and challenge…and of choosing the most beautiful answer in each moment, however small.
It’s also about redefining who gets to make. “Making” is not reserved for artists, winemakers, or those with a creative career. It’s a way of being in the world: of seeing more clearly, connecting more deeply, and moving through time with greater care.
To make something is to say: I was here. I tried. I felt. I asked the hardest questions I knew how to ask. And I left behind a mark.
Lately, that fire has been burning even brighter for us.
This summer, we’re beginning a new rhythm that will unfold across our newly-expanded property in Amity, Oregon—an evolving program that will begin with a site-specific installation from Los Angeles artist Lily Clark, and the first of many gestures toward something larger.
We’re creating a space: For artists. For conversations. For meals and music and questions. For the kind of beauty that is wild, specific, strange, and true. For work that leaves a trace.
We hope you’ll keep walking with us. There’s much to come.
All photos by Making Dept.