The ‘Celestial Harp’- a theory that the movement of the stars and planets was related to music- a Medieval manuscript on exhibit at the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center
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rigor samsa
n. a kind of psychological exoskeleton that can protect you from pain and contain your anxieties, but always ends up cracking under pressure or hollowed out by time—and will keep growing back again and again, until you develop a more sophisticated emotional structure, held up by a strong and flexible spine, built less like a fortress than a cluster of treehouses.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty, unfamiliar and perilous.
Paul Strand (American, 1890-1976)
Tree Stump and Vine, Colorado 1926
platinum print
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The first ever photographs of lightning shot by amateur photographer William N. Jennings between 1885 and 1890
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