Open Thread Wednesday 22 JAN 24 ~ Visuals


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Life in Deep Time

"the tenderness between natural architecture, ecological thought, human fantasy, and
celestial forms of light and visibility"

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“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
-- Anais Nin

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The White Heat of Cold Water” oil on canvas by Sholto Blissett
78 3/4 x 118 inches

He “calls attention to our manufactured and shifting relationship between social constructions
of ‘nature’ and ‘culture’—their cosmically entwined, spectral, and thorny coexistence,”

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/01/sholto-blissett-life-in-deep-time/

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Just a starting place. Additions encouraged below the fold.

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A cold 14F this AM, but we're finally going to warm over the next week. There was a huge snow storm south of us along the coast with historic accumulation 6"-8".

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We've been below freezing for three days, but are headed toward 35F today. A heat wave!

How about illusions?

Thanks for the OT!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”