“… so… when I saw this instrument, I intuitively knew that I can be… independent…” – Suzanne Ciani
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Earth, from heart
World documenting eruption of volcano in Geldingadalur, in Iceland, 2021…
ah, to be a bee…
If we could see the flowers as bees see them they would be even more beautiful and varied! Richard Feynman [The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I, Chap. 36, “Mechanisms of Seeing.”] “Colour is what we perceive after our brains have processed visual information and represents the wavelength of light coming from objects. This is an…
when the canvas sounds
It is one of a kind feeling when you are surrounded by the silence that is filled and trembling with music living inside it! This is exactly how it feels being around these giants. Giants in the physical and metaphysical sense. I’ve seen these before. On a paper… on a screen.. in a ‘coffee-table-book’ size……
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…