O city, your name exists but you have been destroyed

Photo, Gianluca Gianferrari

Fedra Yazdi - Missing Homeland #18, 2025 - Acrylic, Gouache, Acrylic Gouache, Ink on linen

Andrew Wyeth - Dusk

The blast furnace & hearth at Redcar Steel Works. Went for a look before it's all gone. The scale is quite mind boggling!

Maxwell Doig - Winter Pennine Farm - acrylic on canvas on panel

Alexander Bourganov (*1935) - La Naissance de Pégase, 1987.

United Kingdom

Ivan Aivazovsky - The Birth of Aphrodite (1887)

東京渋谷駅から散歩５分位宮益坂上

A pair of corvids are observed perched silently atop a street light during a misty morning in coastal California. ♡

Pia Valentinis, Autostrada

“My condition was verging on madness…” Munch in winter

source: Paris, Bibl. de l'Arsenal, Ms-5070 réserve, fol. 229v

"You know that, the ancienter men are, the nobler they are; […] Now the Cadgers are more ancient than anyone else, so that they are nobler; and showing you how they are the most ancient, I shall undoubtedly have won the wager. You must know, then, that the Cadgers were made by God the Lord in the days when He first began to learn to draw; but the rest of mankind were made after He knew how to draw. And to assure yourselves that in this I say sooth, do but consider the Cadgers in comparison with other folk; whereas you see all the rest of mankind with faces well composed and duly proportioned, you may see the Cadgers, this with a visnomy very long and strait and with a face out of all measure broad; one hath too long and another too short a nose and a third hath a chin jutting out and turned upward and huge jawbones that show as they were those of an ass […], like the faces that children used to make, whenas they first begin to learn to draw. Wherefore, as I have already said, it is abundantly apparent that God the Lord made them, what time He was learning to draw; so that they are more ancient and consequently nobler than the rest of mankind." [source]

Fisherman’s Bastion, Budapest, 1960. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.