Runes

http://www.jaumepinya.com/

[weepingwidar]

Valerie Hammond (American, 1952) - Traces (Nightshade) (2019)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.”

― Don DeLillo, The Body Artist

[antronaut]

Jimmie Durham - These Twelve Bricks Were Used to Represent the Dawn Sky in Venice (2015) (via)

brick, plaster, colour, ink 37 x 80 x 14 cm

[mariaangels]

Matt Lethbridge

[thomasmartinnutt]

Laurie Anderson, Dore Ashton, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Giuseppe Chiari, Merce Cunningham, Anne d'Harnoncourt, Henry Flynt, Peter Frank, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Hamilton, Geoffrey Hendricks, Alice Hutchins, Christo (Christo Javacheff), Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Per Kirkeby, Milan Knížák, Alison Knowles, Shigeko Kubota, Fredric Lieberman, Richard Long, Tom Marioni, Larry Miller, Barbara Moore, Peter Moore, Robert Morris, Louise Nevelson, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, Takako Saito, Carolee Schneemann, George Segal, Paul Sharits, Mieko Shiomi, Jean Tinguely, Robert Watts & Christian Wolff. A Tribute to John Cage: Prepared Box for John Cage, 1987

[topcat77]

Alexander Calder

 (American, 1898 - 1976)

Red, Blue, Black, date unknown

Lithograph on paper

[thomasmartinnutt]

Vija Celmins. Starfield, 2010

[concupiscience]

[rossodimarte]

Pompeii, The phallus as an apotropaic symbol, 1st century CE

[tridentandtales]

Greek statue of a man drinking

750 - 700 BCE

Walters Art Museum 54.789

[thinkingimages]

Cy Twombly, Venus, 1975. Oil stick, oil paint, graphite, and paper collage on paper, 59 1/16 × 52 9/16 inches. Collection Cy Twombly Foundation © Cy Twombly Foundation. Photo: Mimmo Capone.

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Saharan [Women gathering grain] cave painting 2nd millennium BCE Tassili-n-Ajjer fresco Musée de l'homme, Paris, Henri Lhote Collection

[gothredy]

[misterlemonzlime]

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[thomasmartinnutt]

Thomas Ruff. Sterne (Stars) 14h 30m /-50°, 1990

[ducissatenebrarum]

This rare manuscript is a Coptic magical text known as the Spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice, dating to the 6th–7th century CE in Egypt.

Written in ink on papyrus, it reflects a period when words were believed to hold real supernatural power. Texts like this blended religious language, ritual instructions, and symbolic formulas intended to influence the physical world.

In late antique society, spirituality was not separate from daily life — it shaped health, speech, protection, and fortune. Writing was not only a tool for recording knowledge, but a medium believed capable of transforming reality itself.

Today preserved at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the manuscript survives as a striking reminder that in the ancient world, ink could carry both meaning and magic.

[arte-artem-artibus]

Louise Bourgeois - La Fleur Bleue, 2007, watercolor, pencil and etching on paper, 20.6 x 28.9 cm

[cidinhapinto]

[nobrashfestivity]

Constantin Brancusi Penguins 1912-1914