Friday, September 27, 2019

Sign of Becom.i..n...g

Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde creates clouds. Nimbus clouds that last only a few seconds. Just long enough to be photographed. Cool!
 

For Smilde those clouds are a "sign of loss or becoming", "just a fragment" or "something that happened on a specific location and is now gone".

Source: here and here.

Monday, September 23, 2019

Box with Butterflies

In 1925 it was found like this near the Great Pyramid of Giza, Cairo, Egypt:

After reconstruction of the jewel box:
In color:

These objects are silver bracelets from Queen Hetepheres I (around  2600 BC) inlaid with turquoise, lapis lazuli and carnelian in the form of a butterfly. More details of  'G 7000X' at Digital Giza: here and here.

Wondering:
  • Are all bracelets identical? 
  • Why does someone want to have 20 identical bracelets? (Assuming that all two rows are full.)
  • Did the bracelets belong to one person? For her use only?
  • Did Hetepheres I - her mummie is missing - wear the four missing bracelets?
  • What did the Ancient Egyptians "read" when they "saw" - mark that we have more senses - an butterfly? According to Haynes in 'The Symbolism and Significance of the Butterfly in Ancient Egypt' (Stellenbosch University 2013): freedom, re-birth and safe passage to the after-life. Source: here.
I found these on The Internet. They don't look like the originals. Copies? 

Friday, September 13, 2019

I Will


"You know I think your skin is the perfect color
But it's always your eyes that pull me under"

Song: here.

Friday, September 6, 2019

Room With a View


"From the start they didn't know exactly why, why
Winter came and made it so all look alike, look alike
Underneath the grass would grow, aiming at the sky
(...)
Tell me now of the very souls that look alike, look alike"

Song: here

Tuesday, September 3, 2019