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The Nostalgia of the Infinite, Giorgio de Chirico
Medium: oil,canvas
https://www.wikiart.org/en/giorgio-de-chirico/the-nostalgia-of-the-infinite-1913
Medium: oil,canvas
I’ve just realised what de Chirico’s cityscapes remind me of: Cittàgazze in Philip Pullman’s The Subtle Knife. The same eerie, sundrenched not-quite-emptiness.
Usually this sort if design unsettles or creeps me out, but there’s something about these that seen so… I don’t know. Benevolent, I suppose. Like the face of the Moon in the night sky. It makes me want to call upon them to protect me and mine.
They remind me a little of No-Face from Spirited Away:
out of boredom i decided to scan a stuffed shark. here are the results.
your work is appreciated
op i spent entirely too long on this and im sorry
It’s 1:30 am and I’m cackling like a deranged witch
@utilitarianarchitecture Bełchatów Power Station and Osiedle Dolnośląskie Subdivision, Poland #brutgroup Photo via #utilitarianarchitecture
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsbNpO7Fgp_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1333fuspezfrn
Striking photo.
Wilhelm-Busch-Schule (1956-57) in Hannover-Ricklingen, by Dieter Oesterlen. Photo by Heinrich Heidersberger
Waterfall amidst a mountain covered in ash after a volcano eruption.
Taken in Iceland. One of the most unique landscape photos I’ve ever seen.
I know those who have taken a course in American history will think this merger of Christian pretensions and bullyboy economics has its origins in Calvinism and in Puritanism. Well, Calvin and the Puritans both left huge literatures. Go, find a place where they are guilty of this vulgarization. Or, a much easier task, find a hundred or a thousand places where they denounce it, taking inspiration, always, from the Bible, which it was their quaint custom to read with a certain seriousness and attention.
Marilynne Robinson, “Family” (The Death of Adam, pp.102f.)
What if, in important numbers, we believe there is a God who is mysterious and demanding, with whom one is not easily at peace? What if we believe there will be a reckoning? I find no evidence that such beliefs were felt to be discredited or that they were consciously abandoned. They simply dropped out of the cultural conversation. And, at the same time, we adopted this very small view of ourselves as consumers and patients and members of interest groups, creatures too minor, we may somehow hope, for great death to pause over us.
Marilynne Robinson, Facing Reality (The Death of Adam, pp.85f.)
Oh for pity’s sake.