#apocalyptic vision

[scenecrawl]

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2001

[wampyrs]

Iғ Yᴏᴜ Cᴏᴜʟᴅ Oɴʟʏ Rᴇᴀᴅ ɪɴ Mʏ Mɪɴᴅ • Mɪᴛᴛᴇʀɴᴀᴄʜᴛ Sᴏᴘᴏʀ Aᴇᴛᴇʀɴᴜs & Tʜᴇ Eɴsᴇᴍʙʟᴇ ᴏғ Sʜᴀᴅᴏᴡs

Aᴘᴏᴄᴀʟʏᴘᴛɪᴄ Vɪsɪᴏɴ (2014)

[adocentyn]

Dream Vision, Albrecht Dürer, 1525, Watercolour on paper, 30 x 43 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The text reads:

"In 1525, during the night between Wednesday and Thursday after Whitsuntide, I had this vision in my sleep, and saw how many great waters fell from heaven. The first struck the ground about four miles away from me with such a terrible force, enormous noise and splashing that it drowned the entire countryside. I was so greatly shocked at this that I awoke before the cloudburst. And the ensuing downpour was huge. Some of the waters fell some distance away and some close by. And they came from such a height that they seemed to fall at an equally slow pace. But the very first water that hit the ground so suddenly had fallen at such velocity, and was accompanied by wind and roaring so frightening, that when I awoke my whole body trembled and I could not recover for a long time. When I arose in the morning, I painted the above as I had seen it. May the Lord turn all things to the best."

[charlesreeza]

The most spectacular sight in Neuchâtel, in my opinion, is the grand staircase of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire.  This ensemble of paintings, bronze sculpture, plasterwork, stained glass, embossed wallcoverings and Heaton cloisonne is a surprising expression of the English Arts and Crafts movement in Switzerland. 

Swiss artist Leo-Paul Robert was commissioned to execute the paintings and was responsible for the design of the entire staircase.  The rest of the work was carried out by an English artist, Clement J. Heaton, between 1895 and 1921.  See my adjacent posts for more views of the staircase.

Anyone who loves Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts movement should put this on their list of places to see before dying.  There is surprisingly little information on the internet about this work and these artists, but Heaton designed one of the largest stained glass rose windows in the USA for the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in New York City.

[wampyrs]

Mᴇᴘʜɪsᴛᴏᴘʜɪʟɪᴀ • Dᴇᴀᴛʜ & Fʟᴀᴍɪɴɢᴏs SOPOR AETERNUS & Tʜᴇ Eɴsᴇᴍʙʟᴇ ᴏғ Sʜᴀᴅᴏᴡs Aᴘᴏᴄᴀʟʏᴘᴛɪᴄ Vɪsɪᴏɴ (2019)

[onlyhurtforaminute]

morgue meat-conqueror's wrath

[lioninsunheart]

“From the “insect apocalypse” to the “biological annihilation” of 60 percent of all wild animals in the past 50 years, life is careening across every planetary boundary that might stop it from experiencing a “Great Dying” once more.

But the atrocity unfolding in the Amazon, and across the Earth, has no geological analogue — to call it the “sixth extinction event” is to make what is an active, organized eradication sound like some kind of passive accident. This is no asteroid or volcanic eruption or slow accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere due to cyanobacteria photosynthesis.

We are in the midst of the First Extermination Event, the process by which capitalism has pushed the Earth to the brink of the Necrocene, the age of the new necrotic death.”

https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/this-is-not-the-sixth-extinction-its-the-first-extermination-event/?fbclid=IwAR3f26DOp2sJpd_jdu5feQHjPWjfih64hICQfeboWyLmgot1WaNHmH4_Tsc#.XX_Naq_Op_k.facebook

[naturalgasnow]

The Incredible Shrinking Credibility of the Climate Movement

The climate movement has become utterly ridiculous; driven by corporatists and ideologues who refuse to acknowledge anything that doesn't fit their template