Tuija Sonkkila

date inscribed Presented by Robert and James Scott, the artist's sons 1991

William Scott, Permutations Ochre, 1978
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1127843

Character and Bird in the Night

Character and Bird in the Night https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/not_detected_227947

A forest under a full, smiling moon. Two small children play on a seesaw with several fairies, who are light, ethereal beings. They are being watched by two more children, some rabbits and a frog. The children wear red caps with white spots, resembling mushrooms.

'Sometimes they found forest fairies dancing and singing in the moonlight and joined in their games.'

'Children of the Forest' by Elsa Beskow
#WyrdWednesday

Etusivu - Luontoylänkö 2030 Etelä-Hämeen luonnonsuojelupiirin työryhmä edistää luonnonsuojelua, ennallistamista ja ekologisia yhteyksiä Hämeen järviylängöllä.

Uusi jännittävältä vaikuttava luonnosuojeluhanke "Luontoylänkö 2030" edistää luonnonsuojelua, ennallistamista ja ekologisia yhteyksiä Hämeen järviylängöllä.

Hankkeella on vasta avatut nettisivut, joilta sen kuulumisia ja edistymistä voi seurata.

Linkki sivuille:

www.luontoylanko2030.fi

Gerhard Richter, abstract AND photorealist artist #HappyBirthday!

born on this day in February 9 1932.

'#Art is the highest form of hope'

contactlight.de

I'm sorry, but my poetic skills are not really up to describing these photos. It's all snowy landscapes with trees, some degree of sun, and ski tracks. The point is the detail of how it looks, but ... I don't know how to describe it.

Yesterday was one of those days in the mountains where you can't help but be sad for the people who missed it.

Laid out against a dark grey background are ten biscuits that resemble aged, chipped mudlarking finds. An oval biscuit in a rich, dark green looks like the seal of a glass bottle, and features a raised characterful face at its centre. Next to it is an unevenly shaped black biscuit with grey chips and the raised shape of a hare’s face, ears, and upper legs. There are two large biscuits with jagged edges, each decorated in blue and white to look like broken pieces of delftware plates. One features the shape of a small bird surrounded by swirling lines, the other has a series of concentric circles and curved shapes. A small biscuit with a multifaceted texture replicates a knapped flint arrowhead. Next to it are a tiny hammer-shaped biscuit in pewter with delicate cross markings, and a very small gold biscuit button etched with lines, circles, and a rough star shape. The smallest biscuit is made to look like a yellow glass cufflink with decorative circles in blue, white, and red. Another small biscuit has the appearance of an aged metal button edged with decorative white and turquoise dots. Finally, there is a small angular biscuit in a terracotta colour with raised lines roughly in the shape of two intwined figures.

Some mudlarking finds survived for centuries in the muddy banks of the River Thames. Others are freshly baked tasty snacks. 🍪

This biscuit (cookie) set recreates ten of the 350+ mudlarked objects in London Museum's Secrets of the Thames exhibition.

The exhibition closes on 1 March. Don’t miss it!

Inter-American Fund

Gonzalo Ariza, Savanna, 1942
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135726

Gift of Silvia Pizitz

Burgoyne Diller, First Theme, 1942
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134535

Se onkin huippuääni!

Resistance is futile.

Näin minäkin ajattelin, mutta pari kokemusta puhui toista. Saariston rengastien ajelulla yövyttiin Iniössä. Iltaa oli pakko siirtyä viettämään sisälle, koska hyttyset iskivät niin tehokkaasti. Vieläkin nopeampia lentäjiä oli Tvärminnessä. Teltan pystytys oli tuskallista. Hyttyslajeja riittää...

"Jag läser jämt och skulle inte vara jag utan böckerna, men Litteraturen som sådan bryr jag mig inte mycket om."
Gun-Britt Sundström i Skrivliv 17 januari 1972

Gun-Britt Sundström – kultförfattare i en annan värld - Söndagsintervjun Hon är författare till den klassiska relationsromanen Maken. Men vad spelar relationer för roll, när världen går under?

Sundström är en av mina idoler så att säga. En klarsynt och opretentiös människa. Den här intervjun var talande www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/gun-...

Löytymisen kolmas rintama—Sula pinta -podcastin erikoispläjäys Tiedon löytymisen kolme vaihetta – hakukoneet, algoritmit ja tekoäly – ovat muuttaneet perustavanlaatuisesti tapaamme suhtautua tietoon.

Ei oli vaan on. Huomasin, että ovat tehneet uusia jaksoja sulapinta.substack.com/p/loytymisen...

Quynh Tran

Gift of Mrs. Joseph James Akston

Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Painting, 4, 1962
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134491

Ukranian photographer Olga Volianska
Water Flowers, 2022

Living pictures of carefully planned flower arrangements that have been photographed underwater with the addition of flowing paint.

#Photography

I had that dream again

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Purchased with funds contributed by Robert and Adrian Mnuchin, 1981 © 2016 Al Held / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Untitled Y by Al Held, 1960
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137598

A naked woman is giving birth to a baby. Right below here are skulls. Her face is being embraced by two other babies, all of it entwined in very thick hair. Her face is contorted in ecstasy or pain.

So there you're sitting in the dark, and the cold (10-12C), wrapped in a blanket, listening to this atavistic echoing chanting about a dream journey to the land of the dead, while visions of birthing women and skeletons from the murals seem to swirl in front of your face.

Purchased using funds provided by the 2004 Outset / Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection 2005

Scott Myles, After the Mountains, More Mountains, 2004
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133310

The Illuminated Path Revisited Tagged with monochrome

The Illuminated Path Revisited
#photography #multipleexposure #pni3xp #bnw
flic.kr/p/2rPzZPC

Stinn av föresatser står jag här vid grinden och ångrar allt jag brutit under årets lopp. 1. Jag skall aldrig mera hänga mig på vinden, då denna akt är skadlig för min kropp. 2. Skall jag nästa år ej tömma flera glas cyankalium än jag kan stå. 3. Jag skall aldrig bära elefanter mera, om än jag längtar därtill aldrig så. 4. Aldrig mer jag skall i tigergapen låta mitt huvud göra artighetsvisit, då jag till dato haft den dumma egenskapen att underskatta tigrarnas aptit.

Jag lånar mina nyårslöften från Stig Dagerman

Italian painter and sculptor Roberto Crippa, a member of the Italian Spazialismo group and an associate of Max Ernst, Victor Brauner and Yves Tanguy. His works are characterized by signs and forms: ellipses and spirals emanating a certain deep energy.

Spirali, 1953

#AbstractArt #Painting

Polttoa odottavia jätepaaleja Vantaan jätteenpolttolaitoksella.

Joulun kääntöpuoli.

"What people will - or will not - laugh at is mainly determined by their social conditioning."

#SteveAllen

Frank Zappa makes his television debut on The Steve Allen Show playing music on a bicycle.

Fra' Filippo Lippi ~ The Adoration of the Infant Jesus, 1465
#Christmas

Cover for Atlantic Records single shows Thomas lounging in a Pucci style kaftan

Carla Thomas - Gee Whiz, It's Christmas (1963) youtu.be/A9bYYHm4E4k?...

macro of gold eye lichen (Teloschistes chrysophthalmus). tiny little orange circles and synapse like strands 📷📸

did some modifications to my macro setup and man I can get a lot closer now. anyway lichen looks extremely alien when you get up in them guts.