Category: landscape

around which a vast edifice of human responses has arisen

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‘… where pleasure and beauty and hours with no quantifiable practical result fit into the life of someone, […], who also cared about justice and truth and human rights and how to change the world.”

“… a particular kind of flower around which a vast edifice of human responses has arisen”

“Even as ornament, flowers represent life itself, as fertility, mortality, transience, extravagance, and as such they enter our art, rites, and language.” – Rebecca Solnit, Orwell’s Roses.

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Poetics of Relation

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Exhibition at Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2015, curated Tumelo Mosaka and Tobias Ostrander.

“Over the past several decades, many artistic investigations of identity have engaged the human figure as the site for negotiating these historical and contemporary dynamics. Representations of the body have often propagated these binary positions by specifically looking to structure, for the viewer, an experience of inclusion or exclusion from the cultural identities depicted.
Our attraction as curators to the writings of Glissant and his theory of Relation derives from the richly nonbinary character of his articulation of identity. His interest in multiplicity and the stress he places on seeking encounters with an other-or with many others as an integral part of our own understanding of self feels congruent with our contemporary moment. His emphasis on our “mutual mutations by this interplay of relations,” resonates in a globalized world defined by migrations that merge our varied homelands with one another and with foreign, often conflicting contexts. Landscape, as a subject and form through which to address identity, offers unique and perhaps more open-ended aesthetic options for artists to pursue currently. Compared with figuration, landscape can offer greater points of entry today and multiple layers of signification to both artists and viewers. As the artworks in this exhibition demonstrate, the form can subtly generate the experience of both beauty and trauma simultaneously, of histories negotiated and lived in the present and understood as representations of identities in continual flux and formation.” – Tobias Ostrander.

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… site for the lyrical arrangement of forms.

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miséricorde (larousse.fr) misericord (wordsense.eu) or mercy

nom féminin

(latin misericordia, de misereri, avoir pitié, et cor, cordis, cœur)

  • 1. Pitié qui pousse à pardonner à un coupable, à un vaincu ; pardon accordé par pure bonté : Implorer miséricorde.
  • 2. Sorte de console placée sous le siège relevable d’une stalle d’église et servant, quand ce siège est relevé, à s’appuyer tout en ayant l’air d’être debout. (Les menuisiers des xve et xvie s. les ont sculptées de mascarons ou de petites scènes d’une grande fantaisie.) Synonyme : patience
  • 3. Disposition à venir en aide à celui qui est dans le besoin.

via wordnik – [Middle English, pity, from Old French, from Latin misericordia, from misericors, misericord-, merciful : miser?r?, to feel pity; see miserere + cor, cord-, heart; see kerd- in Indo-European roots.]

grace –

  • That element or quality of form, manner, movement, carriage, deportment, language, etc., which renders it pleasing or agreeable; elegance or beauty of form, outline, manner, motion, or act; pleasing harmony or appropriateness; that quality in a thing or an act which charms or delights: as, to move with easy grace.
  • Favor; good will; friendship; favorable disposition to another; favorable regard: as, to be in one? s good graces; to reign by the grace of God.

Arp 282

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https://birdbird.tumblr.com/post/675901677386252288/hubble-views-a-cosmic-interaction-via-nasa

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 169 (bottom) and the galaxy IC 1559 (top). Interestingly, both galaxies have monumentally energetic cores known as active galactic nuclei (AGN), although that is difficult to tell from this image, which is fortunate. If the image revealed the full emission of both AGNs, their brilliance would obscure the beautifully detailed tidal interactions we see in this image. Tidal forces occur when an object’s gravity causes another object to distort or stretch. The direction of tidal forces is away from the lower-mass object and toward the higher mass object. When two galaxies tidally interact, gas, dust, and even entire star systems can move toward one galaxy and away from the other. The image reveals this process in action as delicate streams of matter visibly link the two galaxies.

Astronomers now accept that an important aspect of how galaxies evolve is the way they interact with one another. Galaxies can merge, collide, or brush past one another – each interaction significantly affecting their shapes and structures. As common as such interactions may be, it is rare to capture an image of two galaxies interacting in such a visibly dynamic way.

Text credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, Department of Energy (DOE), Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory/NoirLab/National Science Foundation/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS); Acknowledgment: J. Schmidt