Kiss the stars

The Shortest Day Carson Ellis

Nan Goldin Levanzo, Sicily, 1999

David Alan Harvey, Zamora Province, Spain National Geographic, March, 1978

Frederic Edwin Church. Detail from Aurora Borealis, 1865.

Waves

James Joyce, from a letter to Nora Barnacle Joyce, featured in The Selected Letters of James Joyce

Meteor Shower, oil on panel by Mia Bergeron

Musings from Anna Fusco

(by Carl Burton)

Corfe Castle, England (by RWhalley)

With a diameter exceeding 1 kilometer and a depth of approximately 300 meters, the Ijen volcano crater has formed the Ijen Volcano Lake due to the presence of abundant sulfur salts and volcanic magma activity at the bottom. The lakebed is rich in sulfur deposits. Every year, local residents and workers climb the volcano and then collect sulfur from the lakebed. This is a strenuous and hazardous occupation, as workers labor in an environment saturated with toxic gases, traversing the steep slopes. The sulfur mined by them is primarily used in the production of fertilizers and industrial products such as chemicals.

Peter Garritano

Sticks and stalks pushed into muddy lake bottom, Andy Goldsworthy, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (1987)

butterflies sucking fresh blood from a sock

Grit: A Poetry Collection, Silas Denver Melvin