'Dawn it will come like blood across the sky'

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Have you heard of Simona Kossak? She was a scientist, ecologist, and an activist who fought to protect Europe's oldest forest. She was also a fascinating person. The locals called her a witch (an experience that Nya from Witterkin knows well), because she chatted with animals and owned a terrorist-crow, who stole gold and attacked bicycle riders. She spent more than 30 years in a wooden hut in the Białowieża Forest (Poland), without electricity or access to running water. A lynx slept in her bed, and a tamed boar lived with her under the same roof.

Simona Kossak was born on this day in 1943.

More: https://culture.pl/en/article/the-extraordinary-life-of-simona-kossak

Image: Simona with her creatures photographed by Lech Wilczek

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Images by eduardo jaime

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[davidseed]

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Coastal Wolf | British Columbia ~  Lyman Creek Photography 

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Nadia Maria

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Larry Vienneau

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Grey Wolf and the Ravens by Niko Pekonen.

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Untitled #crow #ship #drawing #charcoaldrawing #pastel #sketch #sketchbook #handmadepaper #art #artwork #artist #artistsoninstagram #artistontumblr https://www.instagram.com/p/BsJjsC7gFta/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4oxk2xi9sbzp

[sarahyeoman]

More color in today’s new crow painting. Love working with this limited palette of Payne’s gray and Cerulean Blue. #watercolor #aquarelle #ravens #crows #crow #birds #corvids #blue #boldbrush #escodabrushes @sarahyeomanart (at Yorklyn, Delaware) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq5Q15MAPIC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=357yc67kbru2

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Brown Hyena in the Kalahari by Christophe JOBIC

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#crow #watercolor #sky #painting #art #artist #artwork #artistontumblr #artistsoninstagram

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LENNART SEGERSTRÅLE Crows in the Grass [1919]

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DAILY PIC: These sculptures by Berlin-based David Adamo are in his solo show at Untitled gallery in New York. At first, they look like more of the crafty, intuitive, “expressive” sculpture that’s taking today’s art world (and especially its market) by storm. It turns out, however, that Adamo’s pieces are very closely based on real termite mounds. This means that objects that seem like abstraction are actually in the center of the realist tradition, closer to Houdon than to any Peter Voulkos retread. It also shows how the classically expressionist urge to give up conscious control over the creative act is doubly reversed in Adamo’s latest works: He cedes control, but only by diligently copying the work of another creature – and that creature’s creativity, in turn, is the product of a hive-mind rather than individual will or psychology.

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