Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Photography

Mira Mobile Prize at Mira Forum

© Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Raquel Pinheiro

It’s no secret I like photography and to take photos. Photography is one of my favourite visual arts. The other being architecture.

I took some photos of the 21st Mira Mobile Prize exhibition. They are on a photo gallery on Mondo’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mondobizarremagazine/

21st Mira Mobile Prize runs until August 1 at Mira Forum, Porto. Wednesday to Saturday,3-7pm. Free entry.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Raquel Pinheiro, The Polymath

Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane at The Polymath

Olga Dashkevich – Old Apple Tree, 2023

Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane my new post on The Polymath talks of a late afternoon walk I took through old lanes and modern pavements reveals layers of architecture, class and memory. Abandoned houses, workers’ housing, porcelain swallows, hidden exhibitions and a clearing carpeted with fallen apples beneath a waxing Moon. Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane can be read here.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Essays, Raquel Pinheiro, The Listening Room HQ

The Smiths, Seneca, and the Corrosion of the Soul

15th-century illuminated manuscript,  Seneca Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

The Smiths, Seneca, and the Corrosion of the Soul is my new essay is at The Listening Room HQ The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice – site

In Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius) Seneca warned Lucilius that busyness, ambition and external success can quietly erode the inner life.

The Smiths, Seneca, and the Corrosion of the Soul starts from a line in The Smiths’ Frankly, Mr. Shankly: “It pays my way, and it corrodes my soul”.

The post explores Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius, the modern cult of busyness, creativity, masculinity, and the hidden cost of lives lived in perpetual motion.

Through The Smiths, Seneca, Stoicism, Mal Evans, creativity, grief and modern life, this essay explores the hidden cost of endless activity asking if the things that pay our way may also corrode our souls.

What happens when productivity, success and endless projects begin to erode the very instrument through which we experience life: the soul?

Read The Smiths, Seneca, and the Corrosion of the Soul: https://www.thelisteningroomhq.com/2026/07/the-smiths-seneca-and-corrosion-of-soul.html