Nuria Belastegui
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Nuria Belastegui
@belasten.bsky.social
Bilbao, Liverpool, Canada’s West Coast. Educator, reader, walker, occasional writer of art and literature pieces on Medium. Still finding my voice.
Some images can really lodge in your mind. This is my latest post on substack: open.substack.com/pub/belasteg...
In the Eye of the Dragon Master
Beyond fixity and flux
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March 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This evocative photo got me thinking about nostalgia and the way narrative can help us give shape to memory, real or imagined.

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What An Image Can Evoke
The Shape of What We Leave Behind
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February 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
My first post on Substack. I like to make connections between art and literature, or, like here, the intersections between art and lived experience. It’s my little project. 📚

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Standing. Dissolving: On Chaotic Bodies
Once, at a Giacometti exhibition, I found myself drawn to a tangle of lines, a squiggly mess titled “Standing Nude.” I spent a long time staring at the image behind the glass, following the movements ...
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February 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
January 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
What a beautifully poetic, insightful, gorgeously-written novel! I don’t want it to end. #orbital
January 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Papá Noel knew, of course 📚🎄✨
December 25, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Reposted by Nuria Belastegui
The real person of the year.
December 11, 2024 at 2:18 PM
So many “unrecorded lives.” And yet, everybody has a story to tell. What are we, in the end, but our (mostly untold) life stories?
December 10, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Reposted by Nuria Belastegui
Premiada una reportera afgana que trabaja de incógnito para preservar su vida y la de sus fuentes: “Mi objetivo es extender la voz de las mujeres. Esto no es solo un trabajo, es una responsabilidad. Y por esa razón, no tengo miedo de hacerlo”

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Meet the Anonymous Woman Journalist Reporting Inside Taliban-Run Afghanistan
The winner of this year’s Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award.
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November 26, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Mood today 📚
November 26, 2024 at 5:30 PM
November 22, 2024 at 5:42 PM