wax and wane

De-Na-Zin wilderness (aka Bisti Badlands) formation in New Mexico, USA

Edward Hopper, Room by the Sea, 1951

"If I could say it in words, there would be

no reason to paint."

" So absurd and fleeting is our passage through this world that the only thing that reassures me is the awareness of having been authentic of being the person most similar to myself that I could have imagined. "

A glum boy takes a ride on a cat. De nieuwe rijschool. The new driving school. 1856.

A page from the first Dutch movable picture book, consisting of text pages and color lithographs of riders and animals to ride. Interchangeable parts allow the figures to be recombined and moved, transformers for the mid-19th century.