Love the unloved.

balance scientific and ethical concerns to achieve a nuanced perspective on ‘blood amber’

― Hildegard of Bingen

Fossil diatoms retain their intricately patterned glassy silica shell cases. Called frustules, these may be either rounded or elongated. Living diatoms are single-celled, algae-like protists. They make up much of the plankton in the marine and freshwater food chains. Their shells accumulate by the millions on the seafloor, eventually fossilizing to form a siliceous sedimentary rock called diatomite.

ʜɪʟᴍᴀ ᴀғ ᴋʟɪɴᴛ The Ten Largest. 1907. Each piece is tempera on paper (later glued to canvas): 328 × 240 cm (129 × 94 in). The paintings depict ten stages of human life: Nos. 1 & 2/Childhood; Nos. 3 & 4/Youth; Nos. 5-8/Adulthood; Nos. 9 & 10/Old Age. Klint created all ten paintings in 40 days.

My house is too small!

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jennifer tifft in the costume-maker's art: cloaks of fantasy, masks of revelation - thom boswell (1992)

Anything to walk on land 🔪 2021

spigne designs

Images and text information courtesy The Met.

Bruce Pennington

Ryan Driscoll, UK

Cinemas.

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

'close-up views of various kinds of pathology affecting the tissues of the heart' in the sick rose: disease + the art of medical illustration - richard barnett (2014)