Burn the Maps - Mn Artists. It is significant that the common image of the country is now an image of the past, and the common image of the city an image of the future.
That leaves, if we isolate them, an undefined present. — Raymond Williams, The Country and The City I think about Theocritus a lot these days. Working from the Library of Alexandria in the third century BCE, this Sicilian-born poet was part of a collective effort to build the largest storehouse of knowledge his civilization had yet known. In the midst of this pre-modern, pre-Internet project of information aggregation, Theocritus harnessed those texts towards the creation of an enduring kind of cultural and political ars poetica. Theocritus sat in the halls of the Library and wrote poems — intricately metrical, densely referential — that utilized everyday dialogue to express a complex, national mythos. Bakken oil fields outside Williston, North Dakota; Matthew Fluharty, Rural Environments Field School and Archive Plow Flag, Chris Sauter, 2006.
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Almanac of the Dead Summary. Almanac of the Dead is a sprawling, nontraditional novel set amid geopolitical changes and apocalyptic visions of the future.
While Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko was writing it, she told an interviewer that it was a “long and complex novel” with “five or six distinct narrative lines” that was “hard to even tell about [it].” The completed novel is still hard to “tell about.” Silko did not set out to write a traditional western novel, which is inadequate for telling the stories that her ancestors have handed down through oral tradition.
Silko instead chose the structure of ancient Mayan almanacs because they would free her to employ multiple narratives. The almanacs were compiled long ago by Mayans watching their culture slowly disappear through Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the Americas. Almanac of the Dead is ultimately a metanarrative, an attempt to comprehensively explain historical experience and knowledge through stories.
The Carved Photographs Of Michel Lamoller Reveal What Lies Beneath. In his series “tautochronos”, German artist Michel Lamoller takes multiple photographs of the same place at different times, then prints and layers them, physically carving them into one image, sculpting two-dimensional space into three-dimensions.
By then photographing the transformed image Lamoller returns the work to two-dimensions, playing with space and volume, echoing the compression of time and place in his work. The deconstructed figures in the resulting photographs are a visual reminder that people are always changing and never fully revealed. People often speak of ghosts, and that’s what these photographs bring to mind—the pieces left behind when time passes and things change. It’s almost archeological, the parts covered, the parts revealed. The remains remain, an artifact of time passed. The photos that are mainly figural express the changes in an individual over time. The images that integrate a figure into the environment are more evocative.
Meet the Russian collective making nightmare fuel. Half Male, Half Female, Total Animal - Issue 13: Symmetry. As they often do after a rainstorm, butterflies had gathered around puddles on Pigeon Mountain in northwest Georgia.
Nets in hand, James Adams and his friend Irving Finkelstein watched the insects lapping up salts and proteins dissolved in the muddy water, their folded wings yawning apart now and then. There were silvery-blue Celastrinas and Skippers the color of cinnamon and ash. Largest of all were the Tiger Swallowtails—pastel lemon males with black dagger-like stripes and midnight-dark females with a dusting of evening cerulean.
Suddenly a very odd creature flitted past Adams and Finkelstein—a swallowtail unlike any they had ever seen. Its left half was yellow; its right, black. Butterfly collectors love gynandromorphs for their rarity as much as their peculiarity. For hundreds of years, naturalists have been documenting gynandromorphs among insects, spiders, lobsters, and birds. Arnold and his team now want to know whether what they discovered in birds applies to mammals, too. 1.
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