ph. Danko Maksimovic - Wuppertal, Germany (2026)

The Release from Deception,”

Carved from a single block of marble, it depicts a

fisherman being released from netting by an angel,

allegorical to the man being liberated from his sins.

So intricate was the work that 18th-century

philosopher Giangiuseppe Origlia described it as “the

last and most trying test to which sculpture in marble

can aspire.”

Queirolo worked alone on his magnum opus, without

an assistant or even a workshop. Even other sculptors

refused to touch the delicate net in case it broke into

pieces in their hands.

The masterpiece is housed at the Sansevero Chapel in

Naples, with several other miracles of marble. Namely,

“The Veiled Christ" (1753) by Giuseppe Sanmartino

and "The Veiled Truth" (1750) by Antonio Corradini.

Francesco Queirolo (1752-1759)

imma start

there is a place called Hell

there is a public transport stop called Crematorium, it is named after the nearby crematorium

it is oddly easy to take the wrong tram and accidentally end up at the Crematorium

the crematorium looks like this

- all the tourist atractions are super creepy. 1) the ossuary. 2) the monk mummies under a church. 3) the city catacombs. 4) the medieval prison exposition at the castle. 5) the best city museum is probably Anthropos, the archeological museum. Full of bones.

- magic mushrooms grow wild all around the city

- there is a massive underground former strip club that got turned into a tea room. It's absolutely massive and cavernous. They didn't get rid of the pool tables and erotic art but they serve 50 types of green tea and desserts.

- the nudist lake in the old quarry

- Timo, the Banksy of Brno

- numbers 44 and 84, the circular route buses which arrive in random intervals and sometimes make you get out and then get back in. All of this makes sense to us locals.

- the smoking traffic signs and other random poles

- Kamenná kolonie: the village in the middle of a massive fuckn city

- One of the biggest prides of the Moravian Gallery is the Head of Medusa by Rubens. A very creepy painting which is plastered around the city and gave me nightmares in the kindergarten

- you can buy wine from the barrel in basically every shop

Tokyo’s subway system is arguably one of the most complex in the world. The map itself can be an immediate turn-off for any unfamiliarized straphangar. But exactly how do all these lines run underground, overlapping as they carry hundreds of thousands of passengers each day?