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Memory & Loss. André Schmucki (1967-) is a contemporary Swiss artist who seems to be interested in the subconscious, in collective memories and historical amnesia. Passing moments & forgetting.
Minor White (1908-76) was an American photographer, theoretician & educator. One of his students who became a Zen monk said "I didn't realize that Minor was teaching us not only to see images, but to feel them, smell them, taste them. He was teaching us how to BE photography"
The somnambulistic imagery of Aron Weisenfeld.
You can find him on twitter @aronwiesenfeld
Between 1962 - 2009, the British Government’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) had a UFO desk & hotline that collected 11,000 cryptic sightings from across the UK. Among the reports on flying saucers & inexplicable lights in the night sky are drawings that attempt to describe the UFOs.
After reading the novel that Tarkovsky based Stalker on - Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky (1972) - I have to marvel at how Tarkovsky turned this simple Soviet era sci-fi story into a metaphysical masterpiece.
The Moon Worshipper. Remedios Varo (1908 –1963) was a surrealist who was a devotee of Gurdjieff & was fascinated with Mme Blavatsky, Meister Eckhart, "the Holy Grail, sacred geometry, witchcraft, alchemy & the I Ching." In her lifetime her work was little known outside Mexico.
The origins of "The Scream". Over his life Edvard Munch (1863-1944) filled 180 sketchbooks. The Scream (1893), began life as simple observational sketches of people on a bridge. The sketches led to 3 paintings - Despair, Anxiety and The Scream.
@BlackHoleMovies such an amazing image - derived from the Gustave Dore
Don't lose your head over it, but the last death by the Guillotine in France was on September 10, 1977. That's 1977 (a mere 42 years ago), not 1897! Also - the last person publicly beheaded (in the street) by the Guillotine in France was in 1939 (picture 3).