100 Abandoned Houses. C/o Ward 81: additional info « BILL DIODATO. In anticipation of Bill’s first monograph we’ve received a lot of interest, along with many questions regarding “c/o Ward 81″. “c/o Ward 81” is the first of a series of two monographs by Bill Diodato. Located in Salem – The Oregon State Insane Asylum – as it was then known and which was also the location for the classic film “One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest” – had a ward set up at the end of the 19th Century to help women with psychiatric needs and provide them with isolation: Ward 81. During 2005, the entire site was being redeveloped… the Oregon State Legislature authorized Bill Diodato to photograph and thus document the cremated remains of some of 3,500 deceased patients of the “Asylum” which, in one final act of inhumanity, had been exhumed.
During this very moving project – Warden Marvin Fickle also granted Bill access to the infamous closed-off Ward 81. Black and WTF. Sistine Chapel. Welcome to THE HAKONE OPEN-AIR MUSEUM. Galerie de Soffia Gisladottir. Galerie de Jean-Michel Priaux. Isfahanian Art !
Islamic Art2. Damascus, Sayida Zainab Mosque. Temple Architecture â Devalaya Vastu - Part six continued (second half of 6 of 7) : sreenivasarao s blogs on sulekha, Temple architecture; blogs, sreenivasarao s blog from india. The ancient Indian art of sculpture, Shilpa Shastra, developed its own norms of measures and proportions. It is a complex system of iconometry that defies rigid definitions .It is called Talamana paddathi, the system of measurements by Tala, the palm of hand (from the tip of the middle finger to the wrist). It plays a central role in the creation of temple icons and images. Iconometry (the doctrine about proportions) was an integral part of the Murti shilpa, creation of the idols.
As explained in the earlier part of this post, the Dhyana shlokas, the contemplative hymns, delineate the spiritual quality of each deity and its forms and attributes, the lakshanas. The Dhyana Slokas also provide the details of the flexions - slight, triple, or extreme bends; the details of the number of arms and faces that endow a super-human quality to the idol; and also the descriptions of its ayudhas the weapons, the ornaments etc. The standards of iconometry are of immense use for other reasons, as well.