Hi, come on in! The party is about to begin. Old souls welcome…!
Somewhere in Upper West Side Manhattan.
October 16th, 2016
Category: Chrono
Good Heavens
The weight of heaven on his shoulders for eternity: such was the punishment of Titan Atlas by Zeus for leading the Titans (elder gods) against the Olympians (young generation of deities) in what was essentially a power struggle between generations.
Carry Uranus (the sky) on his shoulders to prevent him from reuniting with Gaia (the earth) which would lead back to chaos, Atlas was essentially ”condemned” to be the keeper of the Balance of our Cosmos.
Atlas.
Bronze statue by Lee Lawrie and Rene Paul Chambellan, installed in front of Rockefeller Center in 1937.
24th September, 2016
The time is nigh…
… and so it has been since end of August. It was then that some gorgeous, huge, perfectly rounded pumpkins made their annual front raw appearance in their thousands, taking position on shelves in- and outside grocery shops and supermarkets. Although they are supposed to be picked up in October, they couldn’t wait to mark the beginning of Halloween Season and start the countdown to every child’s favourite spooky night. No matter the sweltering heat of the last days of August, the magic ”pompions” were there to remind that the time is nigh.
Will and Fred went to the barn.
They got a pumpkin.
The pumpkin was large.
The pumpkin was yellow.
The boys cut the top off.
They cut the seeds out.
They cut four holes in the pumpkin.
They put a candle in the pumpkin.
The light shone out.
The boys said, “See our Jack-o’-Lantern.”
Narrative from a turn-of-the-century schoolbook, Victoire and Perdue’s The New Century First Reader via urbanlegends.
October 22nd, 2016
Happy Fall
A merry party of cute little spookies on Columbus Avenue, Upper West Side
October 16th, 2016
nude sunbathers
Yeah, wouldn’t that be nice…!
High Line Art, Kathryn Andrews, Sunbathers I
August 28th, 2016
On the bright side
Walking the High Line can be a real challenge with endless rows of tourists obstructing annoyed New Yorkers obstructing desperate joggers realising only too late that their choice of running track couldn’t have been worse (actually it could but I’ll come back on that later).
But step aside, look left or right away from this nuisance and a broader – brighter – perspective will lay ahead.
The High Line, Chelsea, Aug 28th 2016
M x M – The Neon Suit
Hand-embroidered with optical fluorescent stripes, this suit was made to love the paparazzi. The more it is photographed, the more it glows.
From the ”Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology” exhibition, at The Met.
August 27th, 2016
Odalisque in Grisaille
This painting is an unfinished repetition, reduced in size and much simplified, of the celebrated Grande Odalisque of 1814 (Musée du Louvre, Paris), a work that was central to Ingres’s conception of ideal beauty. Ingres cited it in a list of works he executed in Paris between 1824 and 1834, a period bracketed by lengthy sojourns in Italy. Paintings in shades of gray—en grisaille—were often made to establish variations in tone as a guide to engravers of black and white reproductive prints. As this work has not been linked definitively to known reproductions of the Grande Odalisque, its intended purpose remains uncertain.
Description: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The simplicity, minimalism and cool monochromatic palette of this study, void of all embellishment and focussing on the model`s brilliantly lit-up body, fascinates me even more than the celebrated finished work.
August 27th, 2016
Woman in White
Picasso’s Woman in White is a masterpiece of his Neoclassical Period, which lasted from 1918 to 1925. Here, the artist depicts a seated figure as a dreamlike vision of fragile perfection and refinement. He achieves this effect through the application of several layers of white wash and superimposed contours in soft shades of brown and gray. As in many of his other figures of the period, the idealized treatment of her facial features reflects Picasso’s study of classical art. Her informal pose, along with the loose-fitting, almost diaphanous dress, gives the figure a gentle and relaxed air. The muted color scheme adds a romantic and pensive tone.
On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
It is such exquisite examples of his work that remind me what a superb artist Picasso really was.
August 27th, 2016
M x M – The Threasome
The ”New” looking towards the Future
A touch of kinkiness
Generations of timeless elegance
From the ”Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology” exhibition, at The Met.
August 27th, 2016
The Humble Fabulist 