Hands clutch a bag of oranges and pass a bundle of bananas across a table. They cup a round, pregnant belly, grasp a fleshy pear with two bright green leaves still attached, hold a smoking cigarette above a newspaper, and rest upon a lounging body, warmed by the midday sun. The hands in Livien Yin’s paintings frame their subjects in these moments of rest and repose—on a bed, in front of an orchard, by the beach—illuminated by the gauzy hazes of a golden light. (source)

Los Jardines Boboli — Florence, Italy

Ph. Deborah Turbeville

Phenakistoscope by Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau, 1887; art printed or painted on a spinning plate and seen in a slit.

Panoramic view of Yerevan and our Mount Ararat

2005