gentlyepigrams

Green and gold always look beautiful in tandem, this pair of c1918 shoes sit like jewels. That period of post war transition is evident in the style, the vestige of earlier styles but with the hint of flappers to come. LACMA.

dozydawn

Ceramic shoes by Kate Hopkins-Searle.

memories-of-ancients

Earthenware amulet of a cute little hedgehog, Egypt, 22nd-23rd Dynasty, 943-716 BC

from The Louvre

nateconnolly

40,000 years ago, early humans painted hands on the wall of a cave. This morning, my baby cousin began finger painting. All of recorded history happened between these two paintings of human hands. The Nazca Lines and the Mona Lisa. The first TransAtlantic flight and the first voyage to the Moon. Humanity invented the wheel, the telescope, and the nuclear bomb. We eradicated wild poliovirus types 2 and 3. We discovered radio waves, dinosaurs, and the laws of thermodynamics. Freedom Riders crossed the South. Hippies burned their draft cards. Countless genocides, scientific advancements, migrations, and rebellions. More than a hundred billion humans lived and died between these two paintings—one on a sheet of paper, and one on the inside of a cave. At the dawn of time, ancient humans stretched out their hands. And this morning, a child reached back. 

nateconnolly

A Timeline of Humanity:

bookpdf

there's a hole in your soul (and something's trying to get out)

cuties-in-codices

armour and intimacy

illustrations in a "gladiatoria" manuscript, bavaria/austria, ca. 1450

source: Krakow, Bibl. Jagiellońska, Berol. mgq 16, fol. 46v, 16r, 47r, and 57v

ba1laur

todays yesterday

riverberumen

"Bliss by Palette Knife" by River Berumen