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shoutout to the >2,000 year-old 120ft-long Nazca Lines cat geoglyph

Everyday Poetry - "Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand." Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

cardboard cd sleeve for professional widow (it’s got to be big) by tori amos, december 1996

We're right in the path of totality, but all we'll get out of this will be a gradual darkening of the sky starting a quarter past noon, then 1 minute 40 seconds of darkness at ~1:37 pm, followed by a gradual return to normal by 3 pm.

Source: NASA / Maxar

These solar eclipse shadows form due to the distance between the sun and the leaves on the trees. The distance and the proximity of the leaves to one another cause for a "lensing" type effect, making the eclipse shadow clearer to the human eye.

Azuma Makoto: X-Ray Flowers (2023)

'Untitled (Door)'. From the series, A Shadow at the Edge of Every Moment of the Day. Ida Pimenoff. 2010.

My Bloody Valentine: ‘Loveless’ Japanese Release (1991)

Mushroom rock near the coast, Norway, 2013 - by Killian Schönberger (1985), German

Basking in the Surreal Summer of ‘01 ¥ - from Egg Magazine

John Kitching’s ‘A Dangerous Idea’

The eye of a marble statue from Herculaneum, with surviving paint. Roman before 79 AD.  

大丈夫、強くなれるだけだ。

El Anatsui, National Identity Card, (painted wood), 2021 [Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. © El Anatsui]