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Keita Tatsuguchi.

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Jacek Jędral.

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Mel Chin.

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'Fresh from the greenhouse'. Jessica Hayllar. 1885.

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He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.

Baruch Spinoza

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Paul Laurenzi.

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Victorian Etruscan Style Bangle

A stunning Victorian gold & lapis lazuli hinged bangle beautifully made & attributed to John Brogden. The design has stylized hinges with locking post clasp, applied scrolled wirework and bead detail. Applied lettering to the band, the classical phrase reading 'SALVE AEI' (Welcome Always) the Greek letters alpha and omega (""the beginning and the end"") on either side of the lapis orbs.

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'Transit'. Frank Brunner.

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'Watering'. Guimi You. 2022.

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Terra Keck.

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This eight-century manuscript shows two dragons on the world tree. The swastikas on the trunk represent the movement of the heavens around the cosmic axis. The twelve circles on each dragon most probably represent the twelve months of the year. And the confrontation of the solar eagles with the dragons, emissaries of the nocturnal world, suggest the alternation of night and day. the perennial battle of the forces of light and darkness. (Miniature from ‘Litterae paulinae, Northumberland, 8th c. AD.)

Text and image are taken from Roger Cook: ’The tree of Life, Image for the Cosmos, Avon Books, 1974.

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'Looking Down Lake Chelan'. Abby Williams Hill. 1903.

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'Sensazioni musicali'. Lionello Balestrieri. 1923.