EPHEMERA

Nuntio quid futurum fuerit quod eventurum esset, si fuisset ut mores tuos mutaturus non esses.”

this random facebook comment just summed up my political alignment 

Plums

“And in my best behavior I am really just like him Look beneath the floorboards For the secrets I have hid”

god, GOD Freddie Mercury was such a fucking badass

Olivia Hansson (@blackbirdandgoose)

Eyes as Big as Plates is the ongoing collaborative project between the Finnish-Norwegian artist duo Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth. Starting out as a play on characters from Nordic folklore, Eyes as Big as Plates has evolved into a continual search for modern human’s belonging to nature. The series is produced in collaboration with retired farmers, fishermen, zoologists, plumbers, opera singers, housewives, artists, academics and ninety year old parachutists. Since 2011 the artist duo has portrayed seniors in Norway, Finland, France, US, UK, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Sweden, Japan and Greenland. Each image in the series presents a solitary figure in a landscape, dressed in elements from surroundings that indicate neither time nor place. Here nature acts as both content and context: characters literally inhabit the landscape wearing sculptures they create in collaboration with the artists.

Freddie Mercury at his 40th birthday party, 1986 by Richard Young via @historycoolkids 

Fang Lijun (Chinese, b. 1963), 1997.10.1, 1997. Acrylic on canvas, 46 × 51 cm.

Cosmos (2015), dir. Andrzej Zulawski