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Edvard Munch, Madonna. 1895-1902

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H.R Giger, untitled (1961). Ink on transcop.

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This was the soundtrack for my psychotic wanderings.

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Man Ray - Shadow Nude (1934)

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Aprés un rêve

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Thus in symbols everything called to me:'It is time!' But I -- did not hear: until at last my abyss stirred and my thought bit me.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Of Involuntary Bliss

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Peace in death

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Lithograph

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Certainly the portable picture, as we understand it, is largely the product of Christian culture. It is the Byzantine icon form-- flat, light and rectangular-- that has become the archetypal picture as it is now understood across the globe. In a certain way, all of us have icons on our walls, even though they now depict landscapes or family members rather than ancient saints. We have internalized the "window unto otherness" developed by the first Christian artists, and we approach such windows with an outward reach and a questing heart.

Katie Kresser, Bezadel's Body: the Death of God and the Birth of Art

chp. 2, New wine: art in the Christian era, The picture

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It's Spring in Australia, defrosting from winter