James Randall

today’s forest / Teign glade

#surrealism #art

“Convergence of Consciousness” - Anne Faith Nicholls, c. 2016

Albert Bierstadt, German-American (1830-1902), Butterfly, 1890, watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board, 14 x 19.7 cm, private collection

A cool leafhopper I photographed a couple days ago in Perú. Anyone know what species or genus it is? Reminds me a bit of Molomea but leafhoppers are really diverse.

Japanese Paradise Flycatcher

Southeast Asia

Near Threatened

📷: Maepin Sensei

#birds

Max Ernst travaillant sur sa fresque 'Pétales et jardin de la nymphe Columbine' au théâtre Corso de Zurich, 1934 - Gotthard Schuh, photographe suisse (1897-1969), figure majeure de la photographie humaniste européenne, connu pour ses reportages sensibles et poétiques.
#MaxErnst
#GotthardSchuh

a letter from Matisse

Elements from Egyptian and Greek mythology are combined in this delicate figure. The view taken here is that Anubis is represented, wearing military costume and breastplate that signify his role as a fighter against the enemies of Osiris. He holds a staff topped by a cone-shaped object - the thyrsus carried by followers of Dionysus with whom the Greeks equated Osiris. In his other hand he carries a falcon. On the other hand, the snout and ears appear short for Anubis and more like those of a cat, and the short dress can be worn by Artemis who is associated with Bastet. The identity of the figure is, therefore, not certain. Roman, from Egypt, 2nd-3rd century CE. Height: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm) Met Museum, New York (67.190)

This l’il fella is a gold amulet from Roman Egypt, possibly representing the Egyptian god Anubis as a defender of Osiris-Dionysus. He wears a military tunic and breastplate, signifying him as a defender of Osiris; he also holds a thyrsus of Dionysus, equated with Osiris. 🏺 1/

📸 me #MetMuseum

Jamie Perry, American, 1962

Aim High, 2021

Acrylic on Canvas |c 24" x 20"

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Installation in a real location, image shows a yellow wall of a two storey building with a scupture of a white woman's face in one window and a hand in another

Art installation "Alice" by Spanish artist Cristina Lucas, 2013 #womensart

- The garnet pitta (Erythropitta granatina) is a species of bird in the family Pittidae.
- Photo courtesy of Ananth Ramasamy‎, Malaysia.

A wooded area, with trees and shrubs, in a sunny day.

#ForestFriday
#Scape

6.30pm, spring’s concealment: today’s late bus, Exeter - Moreton via Whiddon

In the increasingly convincing darkness
The words become palpable, like a fruit
That is too beautiful to eat.

— John Ashbery (“The Explanation”)

#pdx #slaptags #streetart

I love finding a poem for the exact feeling of a morning.

From Timothy Liu's book, Say Goodnight: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556590856

#poem #books #writing

Incredible perfectly banded Lake Superior agate.
#Photography #Agates #LakeSuperior

Mountain tarweed (Madia glomerata) smells like tar. Look at all those glandular hairs!

Tray (Pan) in the Form of a Plum Blossom with Birds and Flowers, China, Late Southern Song dynasty, about 1200-1279. Carved red lacquer on wood core; Height: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm), Diameter: 7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm). Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sam K. Lee.

Egyptian prince Thutmose was entombed with his companion cat Ta-Miu (aka “little mewer”). Here’s the cat’s sarcophagus ~ the inscription says “I myself am placed among the imperishable ones that are in the Sky / For I am Ta-Miu, the Triumphant” (1,500 BC)

this creature is in amzn.eu/d/05PUbzDd - out next Jan, wrote last year… #evolutions #skeletons

close up of a torso with a loaf of sliced bread laid out looking like a fin.

Sliced Bread
Brian Griffin, 1985

Auguste Herbin
Danseuse, 1919

b&w photo of the most beautiful cabbage leaf in the world -- at least it is that beautiful when Weston is looking at it through a lens

Cabbage Leaf - Edward Weston, 1931

Talamanca Hummingbird (Eugenes spectabilis)...Costa Rica and Panama...they typically stay at high altitudes (above 2,000 m./2187yds.).

Talamanca Hummingbird (Eugenes spectabilis)...Costa Rica and Panama...they typically stay at high altitudes (above 2,000 m./2187yds.). #birds #nature #wildlife #photo

Figure from Monte Albán, Oaxaca, the Zapotec capital (500 BCE–800 CE). The exposed ribs and internal organs are typical of funerary or ancestor imagery. It is a deified ancestor, a ruler, or a funerary effigy placed in a tomb. Large ceramic figures were sometimes discovered in elite burials.

Naum Gabo, influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde.

Head No.2 1916 (enlarged version 1964)

#Sculpture #Constructivism #ModernArt

Even though the eclipse yesterday didn't work out, I was still in the White Mountains for sunrise 🥰

#sunrise #landscape

Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Bird Perched on a Plum Tree (2021)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...