A Quiet Search
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The Life and Death of Edmonia Lewis, Spinster and Sculptor - The Toast Lewis in her lifetime was an enigmatic, singular figure, a maker of art in pristine marble. Though highly educated, she allowed the contemporary press to portray her as a naïf savant; though black and female, she succeeded in exhibiting her sculpture alongside the upper crust on both sides of the Atlantic.
Never lost, just hidden in plain sight
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“The earth and the flowers
Are forever above me
The bell tolled for me
And the wind whispered, “Never!””— Gloomy Sunday, Diamanda Galas -
Self-taught artist Ben Young creates stunning sculptures of ocean waves and watery landscapes by carefully layering multiple sheets of hand-cut glass.
Things of beauty, a fascination with objects: Ben Young
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“Now the past is untrue, and this breath is a lie
And the sun is an emptiness that burns through the sky
And this ground, it will slide down, down into the sea”— Swans, Songs for Dead Time -
“If this belief from heaven be sent, if such be Nature’s holy plan, have I not reason to lament what man has made of man?” — William Wordsworth -
Crepuscular Light
We bled the nights like we bled our youths
We drowned the pain in what solace was true
We smeared the sky with fury and soot
Defiant we searched
To silence we kept
We gave ourselves to the hunger
An oath to never forget
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Attempt #2
We live and we die
We speak and we lie
We search for things
That won’t be found
Forgetful and lost
We hope through it all
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A completely 3D-printed sofa
The Finish designer Janne Kyttanen is playing around with 3D-printing technology a lot. His latest creation is the Sofa So Good. It has a lattice structure of copper and chrom. Despite its metal structure it weighs only 2.5 Kilogram (around 5.5 pounds) and it is printed in a single run.
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Things of beauty, a fascination with objects: 3D Printed Sofa
(via parametricworld)