Black & White - Beautiful Decay

Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

William Butler Yeats



Keith Carter, Hummingbirds, 1989
(more Keith Carter)

Warning:
This post contains pictures of dead people and/or animals which some viewers may find disturbing

Animals in Art - Martin Usborne

the difference in mind between man and the higher animals,
great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind

Darwin


Buzz, from the series The Silence of Dogs in Cars

Movie Moments - Derek Jarman, Marianne Faithful, 1979

At the age of thirty-seven she realised she'd never
Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair.
So she let the phone keep ringing and she sat there softly singing
Little nursery rhymes she'd memorised in her daddy's easy chair.

watch the video below

skin - hair - fur - feathers II

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced
before any theorizing about them can occur

Edmund Husserl



Vija Celmins, House #1

Visible - Invisible V

Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible

Paul Klee


Agnes Martin, Untitled #9, 2003
(more Agnes Martin)

Time Lapse - Karst Country

Easy to know that diamonds are precious
good to learn that rubies have depth
but more to see that pebbles are miraculous

Josef Albers



I haven't posted a time lapse video for a while - until this one caught my eye.

watch the video below

Animals in Art - Early Photographs

I stumbled across this mysterious daguerreotype of a bird from 1851.
It is one of the first photographic images taken of an animal...

Animals in Art - Yamamoto Masao

I photograph to capture existing phenomena.
Thinking about this day by day, the mountain ceases to be a mountain,
the cloud is no cloud, things left behind are not left behind. . .
maybe I begin to see what only I can see.

Yamamoto Masao



#1315, 2005

Black & White - Masks, Rites and Transformations III

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another

William Shakespeare.



Elliot Erwitt, Kent, England, 1968

Joseph Cornell - Rorschach Drawings

The world is a harmless enigma made terrible by our own mad attempt
to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth

Umberto Eco



"They Say the Owl is a Baker's Daughter" Ophelia, 1971