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Bestiary of Improbable Animals II by Mateo Pizarro

This work would not have been possible without the wonderful investigation being done by María del Mar Gámiz Vidiella. This Bestiary is as much her’s as it is mine.

Selection of drawings from two chapters from The Bestiary of Improbable Animals, a book project we´re working on.

The following animals are based on descriptions found in classical sources, or those written by naturalists in their travels. The process we followed involved Maria del Mar searching (in a wide range of books) for passages in which animals are described in peculiar ways, then editing those texts so the animal’s names are excluded from the description. This is central to the project: I don’t know what animal is being described. So the drawings are based solely on the written accounts. The idea is to try to reproduce the experience of a person who reads about some beast he has never seen before (say a hyena or a shark). Before photography and google, this was not an uncommon experience.One of the things we find to be interesting is how wildly different the imagined animal can be to the real one. If you were so inclined, you might spend a little time thinking how many possible versions of the elephant existed in the imagination of Europeans between the Ist and the XIVth centuries, several of whom had heard about them but most had never seen a pachyderm in their lives. You add that to the fact that maps still had vast blank areas in them, and you end up with a version of the world that has a certain kind of infinity to it.

H/T Fubiz

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The Amazing" Moonassi “ Series from Daehyun Kim

Daehyun Kim

I was born in Seoul in 1980, now live and work in Seoul. I studied oriental painting which is a study on the traditional East Asian painting. I’ve been drawing Moonassi series since university. The series is my life-time project. There is no specific background story or a theory about the drawing. Each drawing is created based on my daily thoughts and feelings. I draw to meditate on myself and others, and to be able to see the whole story of the series in the end.

These are mostly small sized pictures which are painted in black and white using pen, marker and occasionally brush

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Laura Makabresku, untitled, 2016

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But you, against a sky that grows more gold, / are the unmaking of my routeless soul.

Richard Georges, from “Eve in the Morning,” L'Éphémère Review (March/April 2018)

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“Poet or painter, musician or architect, all solitary individuals at bottom who turn to nature because they prefer the eternal to the transient, the profound rhythms of eternal laws to that which finds justification in passing. Since they cannot persuade nature to share in their experience they consider their task to grasp nature in order to place themselves somewhere in its vast contexts. And with these single solitary individuals all of humanity approaches nature. It is not the ultimate and yet possibly the most peculiar value of art that it constitutes the medium in which man and landscape, figure and world encounter and find each other. In truth they live alongside one another, largely oblivious of each other. But in the painting, the building, the symphony–in a word, in art itself, they seem to join together as if in a higher, prophetic truth, to rely on one another, and it is as if they completed each other to become that perfect unity that characterizes the essence of the work of art.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, from “On Solitude,” The Poet’s Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke, ed. and trans. Ulrich Baer (Modern Library, 2005)

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The duende–where is the duende? Through the empty arch comes an air of the mind that blows insistently over the heads of the dead, in search of new landscapes and unsuspected accents; an air smelling of a child’s saliva, of pounded grass, and medusal veil announcing the constant baptism of newly created things.

Federico García Lorca, from “Theory and Function of the Duende,” trans. J. L. Gilli, 1933, Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950, ed. Melissa Kwasny (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)

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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, from “A Defence of Poetry,” 1820, Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950, ed. Melissa Kwasny (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)

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And sure in language strange she said I love thee true–

John Keats, from “La bell dame sans merci–,” originally appearing as a ballad in a journal letter, John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe (Yale University Press, 2012)

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Contemporary Indigenous Australian Ceramics & Mixed Media Artwork by Penny Evans

Penny Evans is a visual artist based in Lismore, NSW.

She creates contemporary ceramics and mixed media art. Each work created by Penny is unique and an evolution in her artistic practice.

Design work on the ceramics reference Penny’s Kamilaroi/Gomeroi cultural heritage in combination with her unique and evolving style. The technique of sgraffito is a strong feature of the ware and links to Kamilaroi traditions of carving into trees, weapons, utensils as well as ground carving for ceremonial purposes, communications and storytelling.

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Thanks Spencer Byles

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