By the Stars, Jason de Graaf (Canadian, b. 1971) acrylic on panel
John F. Carlson (Swedish-American, 1875–1947) - Brooding Silence
“Untitled” (2014) by Nguyễn Hoàng Nam ☀ Child in purple áo dài claims her persimmon kingdom
Plaza de mercado Santurce, Puerto Rico. 2009. By flick user: cogito ergo imago.
Phil Davies
"The Egret was in shadow and the background was in full sun"
Downloadable Friends, Kevin Rejtö Lowry
Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.
"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.
“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."
More here.
Kichen