Cleora Clark Wheeler (1882-1980), Evening, Atmospheric Studies, California. Gelatin Silver with hand-coloring, 1922. With thanks to les-sources-du-nil.
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Yokoyama Taikan (Japanese, 1868-1958), “Autumn,” from Four Seasons of the Sea, 1940. Ink and color on silk, Adachi Museum of Art, Yasugi, Shimane.
From arsvitaest.
“Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and for people. The naming of the world, which is an act of creation and re-creation, is not possible if it is not infused with love. Love is at the same time the foundation of dialogue and dialogue itself. It is thus necessarily the task of responsible Subjects and cannot exist in a relation of domination. Domination reveals the pathology of love: sadism in the dominator and masochism in the dominated. Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause—the cause of liberation. And this commitment, because it is loving, is dialogical. As an act of bravery, love cannot be sentimental; as an act of freedom, it must not serve as a pretext for manipulation. It must generate other acts of freedom; otherwise, it is not love. Only by abolishing the situation of oppression is it possible to restore the love which that situation made impossible. If I do not love the world—if I do not love life—if I do not love people—I cannot enter into dialogue.
- Paulo Friere, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (via deepchocolate)
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The wave.
William T. Horton, from A book of images, introduced by W. B. Yeats, London, 1898.
London-based artist Zadok Ben David created this incredible installation using 12,000 cut steel botanical specimens modeled from old textbook illustrations, each embedded in a thin layer of sand. On first encountering the sprawling array of plants they appear completely black, thus the installation’s title: Blackfield. However when viewed from the opposite side, a field of black turns into a wall of color.
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