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Creative Image of the Day: Jodie Griggs rediscovers childhood memories and summer adventures.

Discover more the her collection here: http://bitly.com/1BIq56O

#photography #childhood

apresfanon

(just another side project that cross-fertilizes Truong and Derrida)

In the delineation of Binh everything is strategic and adventurous. Strategic because no transcendent truth present outside the colonial history of Vietnam can govern theologically the totality of the field. Adventurous...

#book of salt #monique truong #quoation #passage #book #goodreads

Mie Yim

"The Jester"

Oil on Canvas

2011

(via)

#mie yim #korean #korean american #asian american #asian #art #painting #portrait

Mie Yim

"Good Morning"

Oil on Canvas

2010

(via)

#mie yim #korean #artist #art #korean american #portrait #painting #asian

“The virtual exhibition Hidden showcases a range of material, bodily, and sensorial artwork and literature that are tied to each other by their varied attempts at concealment. We associate the word “hidden” with bodies or objects that cannot be seen—things out of sight and perhaps out of mind. But each of these works visually or viscerally transmits the sense that there are mysterious presences hidden or in hiding.

These works invite us to tease out the details and structures that have facilitated their concealment. What is purportedly hidden then emerges in plain sight. Collectively, the works in Hidden capture “‘absent presences.’”

<http://centerforartandthought.org/work/project/hidden>

(via CA+T)

#artandthought #exhibition #hidden #laura swanson #art #show #center for art and thought #virtual #online

A map published in 1770 by Britain's Royal Hydrographer (National Library of Australia)

#map #philippines

aboutalcholism

#animaged #gift #mascline #sculpture #beard #art

hyperallergic

(via Curious Visual Guides to Victorian Pseudoscience)

What if all your woes could be healed by some good thinking? Back in the 19th century, mesmerism was all the rage, merging nicely with the DIY Victorian parlor entertainment and hefty dose of quack medicine making the rounds — from questionable experiments in electricity to phrenology.