Black & White - Shadows

To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light

C.G. Jung



Lee Friedlander, New York City, 1966

Sunday Favorites - The Pulse of Nature

In short I am convinced it is a most
ridiculous thing to go round the world,
when by staying quietly, the world
will go round with you

Charles Darwin



Yunfun Tan

Animals in Art - Levi Fisher Ames

Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.

Athanasius Kircher

 

Wood carver Levi Fisher Ames (1840-1923) was originally a carpenter when he began working on his menagerie of small wooden animal figures, some of which were based on real animals, some were purely imaginary. Ames created a very personal cabinet of curiosities: several hundred fabulous creatures housed in glassfronted shadowboxes, completed with hand written labels.

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry X

The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful
are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the
appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.

Sol LeWitt

John Latham, Full Stop, 1961, Acrylic on canvas

Animals in Art - Jane Edden - Ornithomorph

Jupiter announced that he intended to appoint a king over the birds and named a day on which they were to appear before his throne, when he would select the most beautiful of them all to be their ruler...

Jane Edden - Bird feathers and resin in perspex case
32 Glenny & Henderson HSF.2 Gadfly 2012

R.I.P. Chris Marker

I write to you from a far-off country ...

Chris Marker died on his 91st birthday (29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012)

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Movie Moments - Ten Minutes Older, 1978

Explanation separates us from astonishment,
which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible

Eugene Ionesco

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Black & White - Transportation

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Pablo Neruda



Louis Stettner, 1958

Black & White - Doppelganger

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do
is to suppose that they are like himself

John Steinbeck



Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967

Heavenly Bodies - Robert Longo

When I draw, I take it into me. I look at it,
it goes into every part of my body; it comes out of me.

Robert Longo



Robert Longo, Untitled (Saturn), 2007