Her latest series of photographs titled "Birds for Tata Christiane" are as striking as her older photographic works.
Birds for Tata Christiane
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Showing posts with label Birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birds. Show all posts
Who is Madame Peripetie, part two
Madame Peripetie aka Sylwana Zybura is a polish photographer based in Germany. Unfortunately there is very little info about her, except for the details I provided on an earlier post. The conceptual photographer is greatly influenced by surrealism, dadaism as well as the new wave era of the 80s, British post punk scene and the avant-garde theater of Robert Wilson.
Her latest series of photographs titled "Birds for Tata Christiane" are as striking as her older photographic works.
Her latest series of photographs titled "Birds for Tata Christiane" are as striking as her older photographic works.
Brimfield Blues
I have to believe that at some point during the Brimfield antique show's 50-year history, some dejected dealer, picking away at an unsold Gibson, came up with the Brimfield Blues. I’m imagining that it was in the 95-degree heat of July, or a solid week of rain. One thing I can say for sure, though, is that it was not written nor sung this year. I’ve never seen a happier bunch of dealers than the vendors at Brimfield last week. I’d say the report on sales ranged from happy to delirious. That’s how good business was—even after one day. I’m sure there’s a economic indicator in there somewhere …
But back to blue. My first treat of the day was waiting for me in the bushes right outside the front door. Four exquisite robin’s eggs, in an expertly crafted nest. Consummate perfection is definitely a good way to start the day.
We stopped at the Sturbridge Coffee House for refueling, and were greeted by this fabulous Plymouth Fury parked right in front. By the way they have very delicious muffin tops and a sign at the counter poses the question, "What's Your Cup Size?"
It was when I watched Terry get out of the car in her cerulean parka, that I realized there was a definite blue thing going on. 
Here’s how the theme played out the rest of the day…
Roof level of a multistory toy parking garage
Aren’t these incredible? They were rescued from an old house in Massachusetts and were at the same Antique Therapy booth I wrote about the other day. So far, I haven’t been able to find anything about the Armand Art Studio of Detroit. 
Blue eyeshadow--just the right accent for a pink cat. Don't you think?
Artist, Terry Rosen, was scouring Brimfield for vintage New England ephemera. When she hunts, she doesn’t just look on the tables, she looks under the tables. Which is a good thing because her eagle eye spotted this flea market equivalent of “today’s news, tomorrow’s fish wrap.”
Birds Head Revisited
Tonight is the first night of Passover and Jews worldwide, will be participating in a Seder. There are basically three components to a Seder—a story, wine (you are supposed to drink four glasses), and food. The ratio of storytelling, drinking, and eating, varies greatly from household to household.
For those not familiar with the Haggadah, it is the book that contains the story of how the Jews, after being enslaved in Egypt were liberated by God. Traditional Jewish law has it that it is incumbent upon parents to convey that story to their children as if they themselves experienced God taking them from slavery to freedom. There are numerous interactive components to the Seder in order to keep the children’s attention until the food is served.
I’m guessing that keeping children involved is what prompted illustration of the Haggadah. On account of the commandment forbidding graven images, traditional Jewish texts contain no images whatsoever. In fact, it seems that first illustrated Haggadah c. 1300, was from Germany and didn’t even show human faces. It was called the Birds' Head Haggadah since the characters where shown with heads of birds and other animals. The angels had blank faces.
The actual book resides in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
winged spring
“There shall be wings!
If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other.”
da Vinci
edward burne jones
“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her,
still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”
victor hugo
image from the Corinthian Column
“The reason birds can fly
and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith,
for to have faith is to have wings”
j m barrie
albrecht durer
longfellow
“The day is done, and the darkness,
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward,
From an eagle in his flight”
longfellow
da Vinci
“There is nothing holier in this life of ours
than the first consciousness of love,
the first fluttering of its silken wings.”
longfellow
burne jones image from here
durer image here
da vinci image here
birth of a Dame
In honor of a favorite English Eccentric: EDITH SITWELL
September 7 1886- December 9 1964
anaglyph image from Kathy Fernleigh- here"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
Dame Edith Sitwell
from Sitwell's autobiography, Taken Care Of, the Dame talks about her childhood pet, Peaky, a ravishing Peacock nonetheless. Her childhood was an unhappy one- the first child and a girl at that- She was a disappointment to her parents, especially her mother who bemoaned the child's strange appearance. An augur of the woman Edith became, her bond with the peacock continued until a female bird was purchased for Edith's pet. Jilted. For a while though, the peacock would await Edith's appearance and shriek at her with delight and accompany her for a stroll in the gardens. Edith wrapped her arm around the peacock's neck-
"I would go to the garden and we would walk, you might say, arm in arm. When asked why I loved him so, I answered, 'Because he's beautiful, and be cause he wears a crown!' "
"If it had not been for his crown, which made him slightly larger than me, we would have been the same height." es
An Indian Tale for Little Edith
the Princess & the Peacock
the Princess & the Peacock
image (here)Read more about Dame Edith Sitwell:
Genius in a Wimple TIME magazine 1955
Strictly old skool! guardian.co.uk
september 7 is also the Birthday of friend Sanford Peele-
who died December 15th, 2008
happy birthday SP
september 7 is also the Birthday of my grandfather George Joseph Cushwa
who died september 10, 1944
Dorothy- birds of a feather...& books, & wisdom & friendship
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.
They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs,
they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.
That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs,
they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.
That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Harper Lee
Today is the last of my book posts from new friends and old, this one with a just slight change in the questions.
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Yes to my mind, I've saved the best for last. Dorothy is the dearest, and most elegant of my friends- on this they would all agree.
She grew up on Park Avenue, went to finishing school at Finch, later- married and moved to Boston, summered in West Hyannisport with her family, then returned to New York to work and through all these adventures she read and she continues to...This among many other things we share a passion for, and do we ever talk it. The time we spend together could be more frequent-but I know where she is -She is reading & that connects me to her.
Dorothy what are your first memories of reading?
The OZ books and then of course "The Little Princess" .
I never had my mother read in bed to me...
Winslow Homer " the new novel"
I think my love of books came much later in life when all of a sudden I realized that I was missing a big slice of living so I started to take courses...
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Jose de Almada Negreiros, 1930
and finally got to "Alice in Wonderland" and "Gulliver's Travels" and in retrospect, I really don't think that either of these are children's books.
Alice illustrated by Arthur Rackham 
Dorothy in her own creation What is your favorite book?
I think Wallace Stegner's "Angle of Repose.
Well- I don't know if she knows- but this is my favorite too- I think- but a very hard decision. I have read Angle twice since Dorothy introduced me to the book. It calls me back and I could sit down to it, drop all others , and read it again with pleasure, bitter-sweet , & melancholy.
Wallace Stegner
the author 
"It's perfectly clear that if every writer is born to write one story, that's my story." Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction is based on the correspondence of the little known 19th writer, Mary Hallock Foote written to her husband and family during the explosion of migration to the West. The main characters are a part of this migration and their lives are altered by way of it.
Some of Mary Hallock Foote's Illustrations:
Right now I am reading" Out Stealing Horses" by Per Petterson a beloved Norwegian writer who also has gotten awards for his book.
( thoughtful, good writing)
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"Olive Kittridge": by Elizabeth
Dorothy,What about the Classics? You know I love to read these and as the genre suggests-we can gain new insights each time we read the beloved books.
I think we do need to occasionally return to the Classics . So I suggest:
"Middlemarch "by George Eliot.. 
"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."
George Eliot
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Maybe a return to "To Kill a Mocking Bird" by Harper Lee.
"In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism." -Joseph Crespino
Two books that are not novels that came out recently that are really good reading.
"The Nine " Jeffrey Toobin (Obviously about the Supreme Court)
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the other "Indian Summer" by Alex Von Tunzelmann-about the era of Ghandi, Montbatten and the take over by India from the British Empire .
In spite of the subjects both these books are chatty and even , at times, gossipy- so they are far from heavy.
Do you have an ongoing LIST?
I do have books that are piled up for future reading...
the American Lion
The Given Day (because it's about Boston
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"Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jaime Ford because a friend liked it.
Yes, books are next to the bed..also on the table opposite that I tell myself I will get to ( one is the Encyclopedia of Music and another jokes with asides by Socrates or something like that.... and I could go on and ...
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
& for me-I could go on listening.
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
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Socrates
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