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Earth, from heart
World documenting eruption of volcano in Geldingadalur, in Iceland, 2021…
Octopus Dreaming: A Colorful Affair
So here she’s asleep, she sees a crab and her color starts to change a little bit. Then she turns all dark. Octopuses will do that when they leave the bottom. This is a camouflage, like she’s just subdued a crab and now she’s going to sit there and eat it and she doesn’t want…
“… in the material, there is already the spirit”
Artist does not create ex nihilo . Artist, I feel, is in a stream he sits there but things go through him. He is pierced by thoughts and by movements. Anselm Kiefer I am interested in fluidity. And for me, the interesting thing is that it changes. It has always to change. […] I was always…
Trees: intelligent life hiding in plain sight
The average tree grows its branches out until it encounters the branch tips of a neighboring tree of the same height. It doesn’t grow any wider because the air and better light in this space are already taken. However, it heavily reinforces the branches it has extended, so you get the impression that there’s quite…
magic and fantasy and labour of creating the first animated movement
Charlotte Lotte Reiniger was a German film director and the pioneer of animation. Her film “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” that she begun making in 1923 and released in 1926 was the first and the oldest surviving feature-length animated film. Reiniger made more than 70 films over her career. Reiniger fled Germany to England in…
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. Frida Kahlo
Preisser and LaVelle: moving the 30’s and 40’s
June Preisser warming up and “getting the kinks out” in Babes in Arms (1939). Miriam LaVelle, acrobatic tap dancer routine in Seven Days Ashore (1944)
while we live, we’ll remember.
“You have to invent life.” Agnès Varda “In my mirrors I met others.” Agnès Varda “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. If we opened me up, we’d find beaches.” Agnès Varda [in interview with Richard Williams/The Guardian, 2009] “While I Live, I Remember.” Agnès Varda