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Photographers Unknown, Beguiling the Senses and Enchanting the Mind: Photo Set Four
“We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.”
– Denis Diderot
Photographer Unknown, (The Entry Greeting)
Mike Fudge, “Kuba Dunny”, Dark Version, New Release by KidRobot
“I think of Kuba as a sculpted figure created by a member of this imaginary tribe”, says Fudge of his totemically styled Dunnydecoration. Noting that the piece’s title “comes from the human-like bear characters I often name Kub”, Fudge explains that the “story of Kuba relays that the figure has been uncovered in ancient sites all over the world, suggesting there is a connection and contact [between these cultures] that we knew nothing of previously”. And if “all these cultures had previous contact amongst each other”, the artist ponders of his piece’s fictional backstory, “then maybe there is something we have yet to find out about their ability to communicate or travel”.
As a potential answer to his own hypothetical question, Fudge muses that maybe “it was Kuba who allowed these ancients to transcend the laws of the universe and spread what seemed like impossible knowledge to every corner of the earth”. But the powers accredited to Kuba don’t end there, according to its creator. The “dark version of Kuba“, which is limited to 1300 pieces worldwide, “can bring upon its owner the ability to see into the future and peer into the past”, says the artist.
Ten from the Black and White Collection
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
Anselm Kiefer: Paintings from the “Walhalla” Series
Anselm Kiefer, a German painter and sculptor, was born in 1945 and grew up playing in the rubble of postwar Germany, a childhood that has had a huge effect on his life and art. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. He works incorporating materials into his work, such as straw, ash, clay, lead and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan, whose works were also affected by the horrors of the war, played a role in developing Kiefer’s themes of German history and the horror of the Holocaust.
Monday Evening: Ten Daydream Images for the Short Work Week
“Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Photographers Unknown, The Clock is Ticking, The Hours are Going By
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
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Photographer Unknown, (Tin Rockets: Seeking Out New Worlds)
Collection: Ten form the Camera’s Eye
“A camera is a save button for the mind’s eye” – Roger Kingston
Photographers Unknown, Ten Black and White Moments
“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.”
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Photographer Unknown, “Ricardo”, Photo Shoots
Images reblogged with thanks to the artist’s site: http://marsimagecapture.tumblr.com
Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Three
“I’m going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Satre, No Exit
Photographers Unknown, A Collection of Images Formed in the Ether
“But what was excruciating at first turned cathartic the more he talked. In telling his story, he discovered that he had developed definite ideas about his own motives and decisions. These ideas seemed to have formed in the ether of emotions and dreams, that wooly fog that lay outside the footlights of the conscious mind. They were not large revelations, but were rather like the little epiphanies one suffers and enjoys over a morning cup of tea.”
—Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx
Collection: Men and Non-Men
“No doubt as long as man and all other animals are viewed as independent creations, an effectual stop is put to our natural desire to investigate as far as possible the causes of Expression.”
― Charles Darwin
Photographers Unknown, Beguiling the Senses and Enchanting the Mind: Photo Set Three
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.… That is all.”
-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray