An underwater sculpture off the shore of Grenada, West Indies. In Honor of the African Ancestors at the Bottom of the Atlantic.
the brain on love
Every great love affair begins with a scream. At birth, the brain starts blazing new neural pathways based on its odyssey in an alien world. An infant is steeped in bright, buzzing, bristling sensations, raw emotions and the curious feelings they unleash, weird objects, a flux of faces, shadowy images and dreams — but most of all a powerfully magnetic primary caregiver whose wizardry astounds.
Upside Down Jesuit Painting
雙溪圖鑑(一)：月下猿戲圖 林鉅, 油彩、畫布 245×164 cm, 2007
A mysterious painting reinterpreting Giuseppe Castiglione’s [Lang Shining (郎世寧)]Chinese painting from the 1800s. The artist has inverted the composition of the painting so the ape-like creatures appear to defy gravity, leaving the viewer with a very unsettling feeling. Just as it was unexpected for an Italian Jesuit to enter the Chinese court and take up Chinese painting, this Taiwanese painter turns the old painting on its head, literally.
getting a little horse
(c) Philip Aldrup
“He’s like a child in the family … no, the enfant terrible. He’s a cross you don’t wear because it’s already under your skin. ” – Someone on Pushkin
VII
Not having the inspiring passion
To lose his life for tunes and hums,
To all our struggle and agitation,
He couldn’t tell trochees from iambs.
For ancient Greeks he claimed some hatred,
But Adam Smith was high-respected:
Being a learned economist,
Evgeny could discourse, at least,
How can country get more richness,
What is its basis, then, and why
It need not any gold supply,
While having just a product simplest.
His father couldn’t him understand,
And used to mortgage all his land.
- Pushkin