#thesublime

[baffledberry]

A Break

High on a mountain I stand alone. My pride overflowing As if a fountain, As I look upon The long river On which I've been rowing And the rocks I've climbed.

[learningaliving]

Commonplace Entry 12: Frankenstein Part 2

Said Victor Frankenstein, "These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving... although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquilized it. The following morning the rain poured down in torrents and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains. The rain depressed me. My old feelings returned, and I was miserable" (47).

Author Mary Shelley touches on 18th century mental health perceptions and practices coinciding with a connection to nature through Victor's brief reprieve away. The sublime of nature can relieve depression and grief, but it's only momentary. The state of his mental health and mood are as quickly ruined as remedied, paralleling the fragile life/death threshold.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, New York, Penguin Random House, 2018, pp. 47.

[ofgraveconcern]

“I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man” Captain Robert Walton In 1985 on Livingstone Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the remotest and extreme locations on the planet, a human skull and a femur were discovered by a team of researchers from Chile. Thinking that the bones were recent they analyzed them and discovered that they had lain at the site they were found for over two hundred years. They were astounded, the island was first sighted on the 19th February 1819 by English mariner William Smith, with the continent itself postulated by Captain James Cook, and later confirmed in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev; part of an international race, not unlike the space race between Britain and Russia, to lay claim to the discovery of the last unknown parts of the globe. Further analyzing the bones, the researchers were able to claim that they had lain at the site since between 1819 and 1825. Another mystery also presented itself, not only were the bones of the first person to ever set foot on the island, twenty years before Antarctic land was confirmed, simultaneously in January 1840 by the United States Exploring Expedition, under Charles Wilkes, and a separate French expedition under Jules Dumont d'Urville; they also belonged to a woman. Further, both expeditions never actually set foot on the land they sighted, this would not occur until an Norwegian expedition in 1895. Therefore this unknown woman set foot on land in the continent of Antarctica some seventy years (continued in the comments). #antartica #19thcentury #19thcenturyhistory #regencygothic #thesublime #ageofdiscovery #artic #articexpedition #maryshelley #maryshelleyfrankenstein #maryshelleysfrankenstein #frankensteinsmonster #drfrankenstein #thursdaytales #darkromantic #darkromanticism #historymystery #gothicfiction #classicliterature #classicliteraturequotes #gothichistory #gothictales #historystory #historicalstories #darkhistory #historicaltales #deadwriters #livingstoneisland #antarctica #southpole https://www.instagram.com/p/CSevobbnnKa/?utm_medium=tumblr

[urbanunkindness]

Let me expose unto yea some custom surreallist #battitude ... more: https://facebook.com/UrbanUnkindness #somethingisee #apophenia #thesublime https://www.instagram.com/p/BnRuwxmnggx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gt1hudpbysc4

[blogapple34]

"Some quite other medium, you now want to say, when all along you had thought it was color, just color, good old color, useful for wrapping up reality as a gift. Some quite other medium? But what could it be, this curious light lightness that floats, that passes, that radiates across the valley like the breath of dying sun? What could it be? Is it a substance or is it an action? Is it something out there in the extra-personal world, or is it “merely” part of the human imagination? Or could it be all these things, and such questions are irrelevant, as color mocks our usual categories of understanding?" (Taussig, What Color is the Sacred? 47) #thesublime #holmeshole #basscreek #mimeticlandscape #tidalzone #marthasvineyard

[blogapple34]

Painting from a 90s series. As it happens, my new series on the mimetic landscape uncannily references back to this 90s work. I love this series. At the time, I felt its potency, but did not know how to categorize what it is. Now I know. I have to try to dig up shots of the entire series. #marthasvineyard #holmeshole #tidalzone #mimeticlandscape #thesublime

[millenniumfilmjnl]

Jennifer Reeder, A Million Miles Away (2014). Frame enlargement. Discussed in J. Ronald Green’s article “Let Us Now Praise Famous Girls: The Sublime in Jennifer Reeder’s A Million Miles Away” in MFJ 67 which will be out in April Pre-publication offer at mfj-online.org #millenniumfilmjournal #MFJ67 #april2018 . . . . . #jenniferreeder #amillionmilesaway #whisperinggirls #secrets #artistsmovingimage #artistscinema #thesublime

[municipalinterface]

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World Trade Center PATH Station, New York, New York. #municipalinterface #wtc #nyc #manhattan #path #transit #infrastructure #architecture #4billiondollars #thesublime (at The Oculus at the World Trade Center)