Dr Caitlin Noakes

Illustration from 1859 of a wildflower branch with slender green leaves and delicate pink blossoms. The flowers include five-petaled star-shaped blooms and small bell-shaped buds and flowers hanging from thin stems. The drawing is finely detailed with soft watercolor shading, set against a beige background with some aging marks. No badger or animal is depicted, focusing solely on the botanical subject.

🦡 Wild flowers drawn and colored from nature..
New York, 1859..

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YouTube video by Jazz Emu The True Meaning Of The Season // Jazz Emu

Can’t even say ᚷᛟᚦ ᛃᛟᛚ anymore. Because of woke

Spooky weather = spooky book 👻

A poem! He visits my town once a year, by Amir Khusro He visits my town once a year. He fills my mouth with kisses and nectar. I spend all my money on him. ‘Who, girl, your man?’ No, a mango.

An absolutely demolished mango on a white, ceramic plate on white countertop. The mango skin and seed are arranged like a smiley face with the seed as the nose, a strip of skin as the smile, and two big yellow cups of skin as the eyes.

How that first mango of the season got me feeling 💛🥭

Why is Physical: Asia hosted by the Eye of Sauron

von Bingen’s egg-shaped model of the universe. Inside layered frames (red, blue, and yellow, the second-most outer frame decorated with a pattern that looks like the serrated edge of a seashell), is a shape like an egg bisected. The shell of the egg is yellow, red-tipped fire. At the peak of the shell is a red flower, presumably the sun. The next layer is black, with clusters of white dots erupting into red tendrils. They look a bit like red sea anemones. The next layer is a blue sky with red and yellow stars, with a red crescent moon at the top. Then rolling, green hills; brown, streaky sand dunes; and rolling blue waves. Then egg’s centre has a blue tongue shape licking what looks like green scales, like a wave licking rows and rows of hills.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

12. From Scivias, Hildegard von Bingen (c 1165)

So: what might the river teach you? 🐢

A woman sits in contemplation before a PowerPoint slide that reads, ‘Every step towards it is a continuation of a longer story’.

A messy table too mid-game. A game sheet is surrounded by playing cards and Freddo frogs.

We talked water #futures: rights, transnational governance, water governance led by artists, & what to do for water governance when volcanoes erupt. We imagined underground oceans, artificial glaciers, & rivers as universities & teachers. Our dreams were disrupted in fantastically generative ways! 🌊

Sherman Cruz stands next to a PowerPoint slide that reads ‘Rivers of Tomorrow: A Dreams and Disruptions Game’. He holds up a red box, the aforementioned game, smiling. Seated in front of him, a player writes notes.

The top half of my noggin snapped in front of a PowerPoint slide that reads, ‘Rivers of Tomorrow: A Dreams and Disruptions Foresight Game’.

We launched the Sunshine Coast Futures Hub with guest Sherman Cruz, CEO of the Center for Engaged Foresight and UNESCO Chair on Anticipatory Governance and Regenerative Cites! He guided small groups through playing his game Dreams and Disruptions. 🔮

Literature is not about how language succeeds, but how it fails 💘

Three white cups on three white saucers are queued on a white surface. Behind them is a glass of water containing half a lemon, a glass of white cubes (perhaps ice or sugar), and a silver pitcher reflecting distorted light. Behind the glasses and pitcher there are two sets of black and white parallel lines, which meet at a right angle in the upper right corner, suggesting a window sill or the edge of a table. Sunlight shines from behind the crockery and each piece casts a defined, dark, circular shadow. The colours are desaturated, and the shadows sharp and deep, suggesting bright light and emphasising form.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

11. Implement blue, Margaret Preston (1927)

Man goes to doctor. Says his ego is out of control. Doctor says "Look on works of Ozymandias and despair". Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor, my name is Ozymandias, King of Kings".

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my Works, ye mighty, and this pear

Ozymandias
Time destroyed his statue
Yes
YES
The statue is just feet

I heard there was a statue tall
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias

Nobody will remember:
Your salary
Your promotion
How busy you were
Your Works

People will remember:
Your shattered visage, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things #Ozymandias

Last Christmas, you gave me your Works
But the very next day, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stood in the desert #Ozymandias

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a traveller from an antique land, must be in want of a colossal Wreck #Ozymandias

My #cats enthralled!! by my first trick-or-treater 🎃

Against a backdrop of wooden slats, on rocky ground, a pair of bare feet transform at the arch into a pair of black ankle boots.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

10. The red model, René Magritte (1935)

YES!! Joe can’t even hit it anymore. Because of broke

A tessellation of orange and blue crabs with interlocking legs. Each crab is created by the negative space of surrounding crabs.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

9. Crab canon, MC Escher (1963)

The ABC’s Top 100 books poll lacks diversity. Here are my 10 First Nations ‘books of the 21st century’ theconversation.com/the-abcs-top...

Betoota Advocate headline - World braces for extreme instability as Florida man picks a fight with Queensland man. Trump in golf cart, Kevin Rudd with a footy scarf on and a can of XXXX in his hand talking to a player.

Sums it up nicely

Dental problems so perplexing my dentist referred me to the person who taught them how to be a dentist and now my dentist is a professor. But it’s all good because the man’s an artist and my mouth is his masterpiece

My personal hypothesis is that I dream about my teeth falling out when I’m grinding (I have these dreams a lot and bruxism has wrecked! my teeth)

A 3,200km tour of small Australian libraries taught me just how vital they are | Paul Daley In the sleepiest towns I found bustling, light-filled places eager for conversations about books and writing

In the sleepiest towns I found bustling, light-filled places eager for conversations about books and writing #libraries

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.