goodbye to all that

This 300-500,000 year old handaxe from Chelles, France was deliberately knapped to highlight an embedded fossil shell. An early display of aesthetic awareness beyond pure function, among the earliest hints of artistic intent in human history.

In medias res, translates from Latin as “in the middle of things”, a literary device used to suggest a crucial point where transformation is made. 

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[image ID: three photos of an art book, open to three different page spreads. the pages are made out of pieces of textile, each stained or torn or worn through in a different way. one has the neckline of a tshirt at the top. the pages are bound into stiff endboards. end image ID.]

2012

Alice Mason (1904 - 1971)

by Lothar Quinte, 1975

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