Posts tagged mysteries
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“The king’s bath made with the blood of the innocents”, from The Vessels of Hermes
ca. 1700
(via publicdomainreview.org)
Piety Arch*, 3.27
*Part of the Reinventing the Crescent project, which really needs to update its website.
Arthur Tress
Untitled (Aquatic Park)
1964
(in Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964 @ the de Young Museum, SF; see previously)
Francesca Woodman
From Several Cloudy Days
1977-78
(via “Sharing A Guarded Legacy” @ NYT; see previously)
A Geopsychic Tour of New Orleans: ”New Orleans is a city that dwells within its own aura, and that aura is one of mystery and uniqueness … These phenomena, these wonders of New Orleans, are for the most part simply not explainable in terms of history and culture alone. There is obviously another force at work here, another system, a world of secret realities which is continuously and quietly in confrontation with our own.” (hyperallergic.com)
Belmont Ave. 4.01 (see also)
“Photographs of commitment” (1912-1964) from the Sydney Justice & Police Museum archive @ laboiteverte.fr, via coilhouse
