In 1843, Anna Atkins made a book of sea algae. Floating, like a ‘foam of daisies’ washed in from swelling folds of the ocean, the algae are fragments of short stories carried by the sea. The etymology of algae, which is Latin for seaweed, is obscure. Perhaps the word comes from alliga, which means ‘binding and intertwining’, which sounds like letters on a page, only the blue ink is white and the white page is blue.
— Carol Mavor on Anna Atkins cyanotypes, Blue Mythologies
— Carol Mavor on Anna Atkins cyanotypes, Blue Mythologies
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And yet nothing is more necessary than this wisdom. It is ethics itself: to learn to live—alone, from oneself, by oneself. Life does not know how to live otherwise. And does one ever do anything else but learn to live, alone, from oneself, by oneself? This is, therefore, a strange commitment, both impossible and necessary, for a living being supposed to be alive: "I would like to learn to live." It has no sense and cannot he just unless it comes to terms with death. Mine as (well as) that of the other. Between life and death, then, this is indeed the place of a sententious injunction that always feigns to speak like the just.
— Jacques Derrida from Exordium, in Specters of Marx
— Jacques Derrida from Exordium, in Specters of Marx
Pablo Picasso, André Villers, Diurnes. Découpages et Photographies, 1962.
Picasso made some cut-outs of heads and silhouettes of men, women and animals. Villers mounted the cut-outs on different photographs - thirty in all - thus varying their effect and quality.
Picasso made some cut-outs of heads and silhouettes of men, women and animals. Villers mounted the cut-outs on different photographs - thirty in all - thus varying their effect and quality.
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Couro de Gato ("Cat Skin") 1962, dir. Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
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