VENA COLLECTIVE

CULTURE, ART + COMMERCE

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Emma Dudlyke Photography

http://www.emmadudlyke.com

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Emma Dudlyke Photography

http://www.emmadudlyke.com

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Thomas Heatherwick’s Seed Cathedral for the UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010. 

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Hand stitched love letter by British artist Rosalind Wyatt, words of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, to his wife.

Dearest,

I would have torn the stars from the heavens for your necklace.

I would have stripped the rose-leaves for your couch from all the trees.

I would have spoiled the East of its spices for your perfume,

the West of all its wonders to endower you with these.

I would have drained the oceans, to find the rarest pearl-drops.

And melt them for your lightest thirst in ruby draughts of wine.

I would have dug for gold till the East was void of treasure, that, since you had no riches, you might freely take of mine.

I would have drilled the sun-beams to guide you through the day-time.

I would have caged the nightingales to lull you to your rest:

but love was all you asked for, in waking and in sleeping, and love I gave you, sweetheart, at my side and on my breast.

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Glass-walled library, Germany

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The surreal labyrinthine house of living Spanish sculptor Xavier Corbero, a friend of Salvador Dali. It was previously a cement factory.

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Urs Fischer

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Lunuganga Estate, country home of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa

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Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, b. 1929), The Sea in the Evening Glow (Facing the Imminent Death), 1988. Acrylic on canvas, 161.9 x 130.5 cm.

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Beautiful.

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Artifact Delaney Allen

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Indian peacock ring, teardrop diamonds and emerald

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William Blake

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Surreal Theme Parks

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Favourites: Met Gala 2016 

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Hand-painted photographs of samurai, 1800s. 

The samurai were a military arm of the nobility of the day, each following a stringent set of rules and a strict moral code that would later be called 'bushidō: the combination of steadfast loyalty, frugality, martial arts mastery and honor until death.