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Kirche Langenstein (Kirchhain)

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The Ghassulian star: a 6,000-year-old Chalcolithic wall mural from the the wall of an ancient mudbrick house at Teleilat el-Ghassul, an archaeological site in modern-day Jordan.

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Byrhtferth's Diagram of the Microcosm and Macrocosm. Makers of science. 1923.

An 11th century monk attempted to show a correspondence between everything in the universe. That a fourfold structure underlies nature, time, the human body, and the cosmos.

The four elements — Earth, Fire, Water, Air

The four cardinal directions — East, North, South, West

The four seasons — Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring

The four solstices and equinoxes

The four qualities — hot, cold, wet, dry

The four winds

Various zodiac signs and months along the outer rings

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A tunic with sleeves, An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology, 1883

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‘He was a wretched baby - he screamed the whole time. And then, as soon as he learned to hold a pen and could create and draw, which was at about eighteen months, he was fine. He changed. He turned the corner. My mother always used to say that he just needed that, to get it down on paper. I think a lot of people do, don’t they, if that’s in their make-up?’

- Rosemary, Syd’s sister.