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Writer & translator. Art, music, the natural world, the state of the world. "So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“ ~ Slavoj Žižek
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#Drawing & silver vitrine #furniture #design (detail) by Carl Otto Czeschka (1878–1960). The latter originally owned by the Wittgenstein family of #Vienna #art

‘Landing,’ ‘Smoking warrior, ‘Normandy curve’ & ‘Sampans at Hon Thien.’ #Photography by Ly Hoang Long #art

#Streetart by Lionel David in #Konstanz, Germany #art

‘Mykonos.’ #Photography by Theo Frey (1961). From ‘Greece’ by Johannes Gaitanides #art #Greece

‘Torso of a princess from Tell el-Amarna.’ #Sculpture (1345 BC) #sculpture #art #Egypt #Louvre

‘Anemones’ & ‘Spring.’ #Painting by Leon Wyczółkowski (1852-1936) #art

“Laissez-vous être-déterminé selon le futur immanent et vous serez forcé d'assister la vie humaine.” ~ L'ultime honneur des intellectuels by F. Laruelle (1937-2024) Let yourself be determined according to the immanent future & you will be forced to assist human life. #Photography by Giacomelli.

“Consider your origins:.... Follow virtue and knowledge.” ~ Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) #Photography by Saul Leiter.

‘The Choice’ by W.B. Yeats (1933)... #Painting by Edward Ridley.

#Streetart by Banksy in #London #art

“There is no one who does not blame fate.” Monostichoi 621 by Menander (c. 342 – c. 290 BC) #Sculpture, Perseus by Antonio Canova.

Lamassu figure from Dur-Sharrukin (near present-day #Mosul), carved in the 8th century BC & documented in 1852. Lamassu figures held an important place in Assyrian culture. They were guardian spirits. Placed at city gates & palace entrances, they reinforced a sense of protection. #Sculpture #art

“When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.” ~ From ‘Poems New & Collected’ by Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012) #Photography

‘Le Courrier français’ : illustré paraissant tous les samedis : littérature, beaux arts, théâtre, médecine, finances (1885). [Illustration from Le Courrier français: illustrated, published every Saturday: literature, fine arts, theatre, medicine, finance] #art #illustration

#Photography, Guanyin Bodhisattva with a thousand arms, #Sichuan, China. The thousand-armed Guanyin is a representation of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who is a Buddhist figure of compassion and mercy. #Sculpture #art Author and date unknown.

“Rings on her fingers bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes...” #Photography, silver ankle & toe ornaments worn by a Lambadi woman, Andhra Pradesh #art From ‘Ethnic Jewellery from Africa, Asia & Pacific Islands" by René Van Der Star (2002).

‘Até sempre’ by Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025) "What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures.” #Photography #Sudan, 1985.

‘Einfuehrung Metaphysik’ by Martin Heidegger (1935)... #Painting, ‘The Mysteries of the Horizon’ by René Magritte, 1955.

Accordingly, when we read, the work of thinking is for the most part taken away from us. Hence the noticeable relief when from preoccupation with our thoughts we pass to reading. 'On Reading and Books’ by Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena (1851) #Painting by by Ramon Casas.

“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) #Photography

“Keep a green branch in your heart and the singing bird will come.” ~ Ancient Chinese proverb #Photography, alder bud.

Untitled (Picasso's Face). #Sculpture by Pablo Picasso [1946) #art #Photography by Brassaï.

Egyptian men watch as the Graf Zeppelin floats over the Great Pyramids of Giza, #Egypt, while atop the Great Pyramid of Khufu. #Photography by George Lewis (1931) #art

#Streetart by Sojo in #Spain #art

“Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.” ~ Stephen Covey (1932-2012) #Painting by Margaret Dyer.

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.” ~ Lao Tzu (5th c. BC) #Painting, ‘Kinkakuji Temple’ by Katsuda Yukio, b. 1941.

#Illustration, ‘Rising sun (cropped) by Artist unknown, #Japan [c. 1904-1905] #art

19th century Storm Chasers took the first Tornado photographs. Oklahoma City (1896) ‘Oklahoma Cyclone’ (1898) Wallingford, Connecticut (1878) #Photography by Thomas Craft #art

‘Dirge in Woods’ by George Meredith (1870)... #Photography by Ishikoro Koroishi.

Our only chance, in this world, of a complete happiness, lies in the measure of our success in shutting the eyes of the mind, & deadening its sense of hearing, & dulling the keenness of its apprehension of the unknown. ~ The Symbolist Movement in Literature, A. Symons (1919) #Painting, H. Simberg

#Sculpture & #painting by Hib Sabin (b. 1935) #art

'Fruit in a Bowl II.' #Painting by Ithell Colquhoun (1937) #art

‘Bikini’ (1947) ‘Tern chick’ (1950) & ‘Ornithologist & Penguin’ (1952) #art #Photography by Fritz Goro, inventor of macrophotography, specialising in science. Goro was described by the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould as "the most influential photographer that science has ever known."

Mordechai Geldman (1946-2021)... #Painting, René Magritte, ‘The Postcard,’ 1960.