· Green Books II
The Helpful Ones
A reading of Cassandra L. Quave and Andrea Pieroni’s “Ritual Healing in Lucania, Southern Italy” (2005) and Ernesto de Martino’s Magic: A Theory from the South (1959; English translation 2015).
About me
Peter Marc Farrugia is a psychotherapist, theological researcher and writer from Malta.
This archive gathers essays, images and working instruments concerned with how attention is formed, how harm is remembered, and how presence is kept.
Writings
· Green Books I
Neighbours of the Uncanny
A reading of Devoted (2008).
Publications
Selected academic papers, conference presentations and published articles.
“I Will Diminish”: Renunciation and Moral Power in Lórien
Tolkien’s Elvish Mirror: Language, Myth, and Europe’s Search for Self, Faculty of Theology and Department of English, University of Malta.
Presence in the Sealed Place: Holy Saturday and the Limits of Completion
Festival of Theology Research, School of Theology, St Mary’s University, London.
Julian of Norwich: Containment and Mediation of the Body of Christ in the Anchorhold
Melita Theologica 66, no. 2, pp. 59–72.
Projects
· Ongoing project
English Cantillation for the Little Office
A practical system for singing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary in clear English, with movable-do guidance and fretted dulcimer tablature.
· Interactive icon
The Face and the Mother
A synoptic icon placing the Holy Mandylion at the centre and four Marian types around it: reception, direction, embrace and abiding. Open the doors, enlarge the images and read the accompanying theological rationale.
– · Solo exhibition
Record of Nighttime
Selected drawings in graphite, ink and silverpoint, curated by Melanie Erixon at il-Kamra ta’ Fuq, Mqabba. Exhibited as Pietru Farrugia.
· Arts and mental-health project
Forma Mentis
A Gabriel Caruana Foundation project developed with the Richmond Foundation, exploring arts-based practices for emotional resilience and personal and communal wellbeing. Pietru Farrugia devised and led three of its nine recorded exercises alongside Gabriel Buttigieg and Denise Scicluna.