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A space for exploring the convergence of art, spirituality, and in the words of Huxley, the 'Mind at Large'. Visionary art, sacred geometry, cymatics, meditation, energy practices, spiritual technologies, altered states, metaphysics & more!
Organum Mathematicum, late C17, maker unknown
A portable encyclopedia devised by Athanasius Kircher, with compartments for arithmetic, geometry, chronology, horography, astronomy, astrology, steganography and music.
At the @museogalileo on X
A portable encyclopedia devised by Athanasius Kircher, with compartments for arithmetic, geometry, chronology, horography, astronomy, astrology, steganography and music.
At the @museogalileo on X
*comparison is the thief of joy
from the beautifully curated
Al Thani collection at the
Hôtel de la Marine in Paris
Egyptian art (1400 to 1200 BC)
Al Thani collection at the
Hôtel de la Marine in Paris
Egyptian art (1400 to 1200 BC)
my face as i walked
through the labyrinth at
the *Surréalisme* exhibition
at Pompidou yesterday, and
tasted the myriad flavors of our
collective unconscious...
(also a 1949 piece by Grete Stern)
through the labyrinth at
the *Surréalisme* exhibition
at Pompidou yesterday, and
tasted the myriad flavors of our
collective unconscious...
(also a 1949 piece by Grete Stern)
'Life Is So Complex' (1966)
by Martial Raysse
by Martial Raysse
'Cerium, from the Periodic Table' (1994)
by Bill Woodrow
by Bill Woodrow
In life, we must die and be reborn many times. If not, we risk living in exhaustion, clinging to an outdated version of oneself, even defending it, carrying that cadaver unable to move.
The fear of dying, of letting go, keeps us stuck.
Let that old self die. Forget that persona you've outgrown. Don't be afraid to release it. In that space, you can be reborn and reinvent yourself.
Keep what makes you grow beautiful wiser, to face a new version of you. Look at yourself in the mirror so deep until you don't recognise who you are anymore. Like a blank page ready to reshape in any way you desire.
Get new passions, learn new forms of love and a different way of being.
You learn to die and be reborn again and again. If not, you'll repeat yourself endlessly, becoming so much a version of who you were! It takes wisdom and generosity to know when to die when to let go of that old self, knowing only true love and beauty will always be by your side.
As the Navajos said
- Just jump, the ground will rise to meet you-🪄
The fear of dying, of letting go, keeps us stuck.
Let that old self die. Forget that persona you've outgrown. Don't be afraid to release it. In that space, you can be reborn and reinvent yourself.
Keep what makes you grow beautiful wiser, to face a new version of you. Look at yourself in the mirror so deep until you don't recognise who you are anymore. Like a blank page ready to reshape in any way you desire.
Get new passions, learn new forms of love and a different way of being.
You learn to die and be reborn again and again. If not, you'll repeat yourself endlessly, becoming so much a version of who you were! It takes wisdom and generosity to know when to die when to let go of that old self, knowing only true love and beauty will always be by your side.
As the Navajos said
- Just jump, the ground will rise to meet you-🪄
arctic antarctic engraving (1634)
'La mesure du rythme' (1970's)
by Aurélie Nemours
by Aurélie Nemours
'Time Transfixed' (1938)
by René Magritte
by René Magritte
Voici les mots
L’âme et le sang
Rien n’arrache le nom
Ce rouge essentiel
Où brûle
par syllabes
la vie
Qu’il soit lu
Janine Mitaud (1921-2011) France
L’âme et le sang
Rien n’arrache le nom
Ce rouge essentiel
Où brûle
par syllabes
la vie
Qu’il soit lu
Janine Mitaud (1921-2011) France
'In the late 1920s, the Japanese physicist Masanao Abe built an observatory with a view of Mount Fuji. From it, over the course of fifteen years, he recorded the clouds that surrounded the mountain'
via dpr-barcelon
https://dprbcn.wordpress.com/2018/08/02/clouds/
via dpr-barcelon
https://dprbcn.wordpress.com/2018/08/02/clouds/
L'Immensité (1869)
by Gustave Courbet
by Gustave Courbet
'The best of science doesn't consist of mathematical models and experiments..... it springs fresh from a more primitive mode of thought, wherein the hunter's mind weaves ideas from old facts and fresh metaphors...' The Diversity of Life - E.O Wilson (2001)
A meditation matrix...
The Letters of the Sanskrit Alphabet from Magic Markings: Tantra, Jain & Ritual Art from India - Joost van den Bergh, 2016
The Letters of the Sanskrit Alphabet from Magic Markings: Tantra, Jain & Ritual Art from India - Joost van den Bergh, 2016
signing off with
'Kiss' (1963) by Andy Warhol 💋
'Kiss' (1963) by Andy Warhol 💋
𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖 𝙈𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙞
𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦
https://rodeo.club/post/0x3E52A0ed2Bff3D85be8b9d86EF7bbb457550Dbb3/27
𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦
https://rodeo.club/post/0x3E52A0ed2Bff3D85be8b9d86EF7bbb457550Dbb3/27
from 'The Tale Of Genji'
interpreted by Yoshitaka Amano,
contemporary Japanese visual artist
Written by the novelist, poet, and court lady Murasaki Shikibu at the height of the Heian period, around the early 11th century, the erotically charged work portrays the lifestyles of the Japanese aristocracy during this era. 'The Tale of Genji' focuses on the life of Hikaru Genji, the son of Emperor Kiritsubo, and a low-ranking concubine.
interpreted by Yoshitaka Amano,
contemporary Japanese visual artist
Written by the novelist, poet, and court lady Murasaki Shikibu at the height of the Heian period, around the early 11th century, the erotically charged work portrays the lifestyles of the Japanese aristocracy during this era. 'The Tale of Genji' focuses on the life of Hikaru Genji, the son of Emperor Kiritsubo, and a low-ranking concubine.
Revolve and evolve, minds align through time....
Left: Variae figurae ad explicationem sphaerae et motuum coelestium accommodatae, Latin manuscript, 1501-1600. @GallicaBnF
Right: Duchamp, Rotorelief (Disques Optiques), 1935.
Left: Variae figurae ad explicationem sphaerae et motuum coelestium accommodatae, Latin manuscript, 1501-1600. @GallicaBnF
Right: Duchamp, Rotorelief (Disques Optiques), 1935.
'La tribuna degli Uffizi' (1774)
by J.Zoffany
(detail)
Teeming with painted illusions, this mirrors Shakespeare's playful mise en abyme. Art like life, is a stage within a stage...
by J.Zoffany
(detail)
Teeming with painted illusions, this mirrors Shakespeare's playful mise en abyme. Art like life, is a stage within a stage...
in other news from 1665, there be giants i.e. gigantis skeletons
Illustration from a 15th-century version of ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars.
Behold the Nebulous Smear >
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fixed-stars/
Behold the Nebulous Smear >
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fixed-stars/
illustration to 'A Week of Kindness' (1934)
by Max Ernst
i initially discovered this work laden with
allegories & symbols thanks to @aempatia
by Max Ernst
i initially discovered this work laden with
allegories & symbols thanks to @aempatia