This spring, induced by Jan Nemeček's masterful probing into the nature of harmony and distortion, as well as Chef & Huntress Nina Marisa's culinary highlights, we explored the notion of Lightness from various vantage points.

Yep, Lightless is readily conceived as the subtraction of weight.

While persuasive, how about something radical — Lightness as a game of seduction. Al final, the overcoming of gravity?

Lightness in wine, music, artworks, life, hell even in a Pavlova, hints at a wonderful underlying duality: a suspension between dissonance and resolve, fluctuation and stability, the stillness of the turning world and reality's messy ambiguity.

Lightness does not negate gravity, it seduces it. Lightness fosters vitality. Lightness lived is akin to a dance. Not Waltz exactly, but maybe freestyle?

IN BOCACCIO’S DECAMERON

The poet Guido Cavalcanti is strolling meditatively through a graveyard. Suddenly he is charged by a group of Noble Florentines on their horses. They are resentful towards him for not joining their Clique, despite his wealthy family background, so they start a quarrel.

Guido, seeing himself surrounded by them, responds to their provocations quickly:

“Gentlemen, you may say anything you wish to me in your own home.”

Then, while resting his hand on one of the great marble tombs and being very nimble, he leaps over it.

Landing on the other side, he makes off and rids himself of them.

LIGHTNESS — The sudden agile leap of the poet philosopher, who raises himself above the weight of the world, showing that with all his gravity, he has the secret of Lightness and that what many consider to be the vitality of our times: noise, aggression, and assertion, belong to the realm of the dead, like a cemetery for old corked wines.