Materia gris

John Little (Canadian, 1928-2024), Rue O'Connell Angle St-Simon, in Disappearing Quebec, 1968. Oil on canvas, 12 x 16 in.

Robot from Björk’s “All Is Full of Love” music video (1997) designed by: Chris Cunningham

Sebastiane (1976) // dir. Derek Jarman, Paul Humfress

Superbly crafted in the shape of a serpent ready to strike, this labret—a type of plug inserted through a piercing below the lower lip—is a rare survival of what was once a thriving tradition of gold-working in the Aztec Empire. Gold, in Aztec belief, was teocuitlatl, a godly excrement, closely associated with the sun’s power, and ornaments made of it were worn by Aztec rulers and nobles. Historical sources describe a variety of objects made of gold, including a serpent labret sent by Hernán Cortés as a gift to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, yet nearly all of these objects were melted down at the time of the Conquest and shortly thereafter, converted to gold ingots for ease of transport and trade.

Medium: Andesite

Ramiro Sanchez - 25 Piazzale Donatello (2007)

Internet Archive

Egyptian Textile from the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18–20 1550–1070 B.C.

https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.204

by Stelarc

@maschiio

Salman Toor Three Friends in a Cab 16 x 20 inches, 2021

Michael Armitage (Kenyan, b. 1984), The Dispute, 2015. Oil on lubugo bark cloth, 170.2 x 149.9 cm

"Bathing Soldiers", 1959 by Dmitry Zhilinsky. USSR