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Manuel Rivera (1927-1995) — Metamorphosis (Homage to Kafka) [metallic cloth, wire and paint, on wood, 1963]

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All life is a form of vanishing, all death another form. However, the intertwining of both lets us be a sign in the void.

Roberto Juarroz, “Eleventh.IV.45,” Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems

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H & F's Street, Tucson, 1975

Thomas Barrow

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Jiang Miao — Eyes in the Sky No. 57 (acrylic and oil on panel, carving, 2022)

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John Brosio - Dinosaurs Eating a CEO (2013)

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Betye Saar, Her Story, 2005, found object construction—plastic figurines, washboard, chain, lock, key, wood stand and toy objects assemblage, 36 ½ x 15 x 13 in (92.7 x 38.1 x 33 cm)

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Dead Guy - Roman, c. 300 BCE, terra cotta

Part of a tableau depicting a battle between the Greeks and the Amazons.  Photo by Charles Reeza at the Museum of Art and History, Geneva.

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LUCILLE CLIFTON "shadows"

in the latter days you will come to a place called memphis. there you will wait for awhile by the river mississippi until you can feel the shadow of another memphis and another river. nile.

wake up girl. you dreaming.

the sign may be water or fire or it may be the black earth or the black blood under the earth. or it may be the syllables themselves coded to you from your southern kin.

wake up girl. i swear you dreaming.

memphis. capital of the old kingdom of ancient egypt at the apex of the river across from the great pyramids. nile. born in the mountains of the moon.

wake up girl. this dont connect.

wait there. in the shadow of your room you may see another dusky woman weakened by too much loss. she will be dreaming a small boat through centuries of water into the white new world. she will be weaving garments of neglect.

wake up girl. this dont mean nothing.

meaning is the river of voices. meaning is the patience of the moon. meaning is the thread running forever in shadow.

girl girl wake up. somebody calling you.

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Viktor Shklovsky, Technique of Writing Craft (1927)

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Purple night - Dick Bengtsson.

Swedish , 1936-1989

Collage , 64 x 96 cm.

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'jaw-piece by shaun leane for alexander mcqueen, 1998' in jewelry: the body transformed - melanie holcomb (2018)

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Art by Virgil Finlay

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Virgil Finlay

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Martin Vest

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poet of an ordinary heartbreak by Chris Abani

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Before Cousteau, way before @Octonauts, explorer Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez was bringing images of the undersea world to the surface, from his artist’s sketch pad inside a glass and steel diving bell: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/underwater-landscapes-of-eugen-von-ransonnet-villez