Afrodelic

The Black Aesthetic. Darkness is the womb of creation. Bask in its dark radiance

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Without A Care

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mosaic-glass with the falcon-head of the God Horus; dated to the Ptolemaic Period, 304–30 BCE. Now in the Cairo Museum

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The Swing of Uncertainty

(Pictured: Light Pendulum Oscillation by Peter Keetman.)

Certainty is a form of a bad faith.

Uncertainty helps keep our concepts open to constant refinement

Read more here.

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Papa Ibra Tall, 1965

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3D TYPEFACE - leotheartist

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[unangeapasse]

Stan Brakhage, The garden of earthly delights (1981) 

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MERIKOKEB BERHANU 

UNTITLED XXXVI, 2019 

Acrylic on canvas  59 7/8 x 48 1/8 in 152 x 122 cm

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Kerry James Marshall  Keeping the Culture 2010

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Between Relating and Use (Nazli Dinçel, 2018)

[raveneuse]

Edouard Duval-Carrié, Kongo Queen, 2015.

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A portrait of a little girl in the backseat of a car. Mali. ©Delphine Diallo

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Aurora Consurgens (att: St. Thomas Aquinas or “Pseudo-Aquinas”)

f. 34v: Black Female Angel

Germany (c. 1420s)

Parchment Codex with Watercolor Miniatures, 20.4 x 13.9 cm.

Zürich, Zentralbibliothek.

This is one of those manuscript miniatures that is so beautiful and strange, it’s hard to believe it’s really as old as it is. Aurora Consurgens is an alchemical treatise; a commentary on the Latin translation of Silvery Waters by Muhammed ibn Umail at-Tamîmî (Senior Zadith), attributed first to Saint Thomas Aquinas and later attributed to “Pseudo-Aquinas”.

The miniatures are unusual not only for their quality, but also for the fact that they’re tiny watercolor paintings on the parchment codex. The whole text has been digitized here, and you can read like you were holding it:

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The link has a photo with flash in which you can see the gilded portions a bit better, as well as the ability to zoom in to see the details. For those who were curious, inside the Angel’s body is a sheathed dagger and a coiled serpent:

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Thai Map of the Universe

via reddit

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Grace Bol by Txema Yeste for Numéro May 2017

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Sisqo’s Pepsi™ powered spaceship suffers a soda shortage (2000)