Emma Varley

Emma Varley

@emmavarley.bsky.social

(Eclectic) Anthropology #GlobalHealth #ShadowsideMedicine #Conflict #WW2 #WarArt #Archives #Spectrality #Paranormality #Ethnography #Visuality #Ekphrasis

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1 year ago
Digital art by E. Varley based on original archival image: "Dresden viewed from the city hall after the bombing."Image Source: Deutsche Fotothek‎, CC BY-SA 3.0 dehttps://www.loc.gov/item/92514920/

13 February 1945, 9.51 pm. Sirens blare out over the ancient city of Dresden. Flying above, RAF Wing Commander Maurice Smith issues an order to incoming 244 Lancaster Bombers ... ‘Come in and bomb…’."

Digital art based on archival image, "Dresden viewed from the city hall after the bombing" #WW2

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1 year ago
Map Caption: "A Soviet era map of the Vistuka-Oder operation, the rapid thrust across Poland to the border with Germany."

Text Source: "World War II Today" https://www.ww2today.com/

Image Source: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4df4c966-5825-4499-ab6c-9499c1ae3b38_1776x1470.heic

On this day, 80 years ago, mere days away from Auschwitz's liberation: "The Soviet Army was now making dramatic progress right across the remainder of occupied Poland ... [On] the 24th January they reached [the] modern day border between Poland and Germany ... only 60 miles from Berlin."

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Quote on gray with shadows. The gusta strike all sides of the house…but the foundation holds and will hold.  That’s all that matters.  General Ferdinand Foch June 1918

My hope and pray for the days ahead. A quote from a WWI general seen at the Imperial War Museum in London.

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1 year ago
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Paul Nash, We Are Making a New World, Imperial War Museum

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