Black & White - Masks, Rites and Transformations I

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks
in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity

Friedrich Nietzsche



Irving Penn, Three Asaro Mud Men, New Guinea, 1970

Animals in Art - Doug Aitken

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Gerhard Richter - September

Gerhard Richter, September, 2005, 52 cm x 72 cm, Oil on canvas

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

A mesmerizing portrait of the artist Anselm Kiefer ...

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Black & White - Horses

The New York that I had come back to was not my old New York. I used to wander around the streets disconsolately, until one night during a blizzard, I happened to see a man watering a couple of steaming horse-car horses, and I thought, “Well, there at any rate is the human touch.” That made me feel much better.

Alfred Stieglitz



Alfred Stieglitz, “The Terminal, New York” (1892)

Raúl Ruiz

Raúl Ruiz, a Chilean director who presented a labyrinthine, cryptic picture of individual psychology and social relations in “Mysteries of Lisbon” and more than 100 other films, died on Friday in Paris.
He was 70.

source


Filmstill from: The Three Crowns of A Sailor, 1982

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Rain - Japanese Woodcuts

Not even a hat --
and cold rain falling on me?
Tut-tut! Think of that!

Matsuo Bashô



Shiro KASAMATSU, Spring Rain at Yushima Tenjin Shrine
, 1935

Black & White - The Poetry of Rain

Robert Doisneau, M. Barre’s Carousel, 1955

Movie Moments - Joris Ivens, Rain, 1929

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Black & White - Mirrors

Man is a mirror for man.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Brassaï, Juan-les-Pins, aux Folies-Bergères, 1932

Animals in Art - Nadine Rüfenacht

from the series "Le Curée de Lilith"

Time Lapse - Milky Way

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

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Visible - Invisible IV

Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.

Martin Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? 1929



Ed Ruscha, Your Space #1, 2006

Snake-Calligraphy

No sooner had the Snake beheld this reverend figure, than the King began to speak, and asked: "Whence comest thou?" "From the chasms where the gold dwells," said the Snake. "What is grander than gold?" inquired the King. "Light," replied the Snake. "What is more refreshing than light?" said he. "Speech," answered she.

Björk/Michel Gondry

Kim Keever - Imaginary Landscapes

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Britta Jaschinski - Zoo

We need animals. Animals don't need us, but we need them.
We constantly look for any kind of connection we can possibly get to them.

Britta Jaschinski

Gábor Kerekes

The scientists of the old times had tried to cath the unknown in its base, they had been sure it could be defined using their own subjective systems of symbols.

Gábor Kerekes, 1995

from the series "Orientation"

Agnes Martin - Beauty is the Mystery of Life

Composition is an absolute mystery. It is dictated by the mind. The artist searches for certain sounds or lines that are acceptable to mind and finally an arrangement of them that is acceptable.

Agnes Martin, Beauty is the Mystery of Life, 1969

This Rain, 1960

The very deep and the very small

I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things ...

... that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient stone idols and carving their own detestable likenesses on submarine obelisks of water-soaked granite. I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind —of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium.

H.P. Lovecraft