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Sun dog in Saskatoon, Canada, on December 25, 2022.

Source: Wikipedia

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The Palestinian Museum is launching a new project in honour of Pope Francis’s trip to Palestine next Sunday. Banners combining recent media photographs of the Palestinian landscape and its people with Western baroque paintings of biblical scenes will decorate Manger Square in Bethlehem, highlighting the tension between the popular image of the Holy Land and Palestine’s ongoing history of suffering under occupation and oppression.

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Didn't get a chance to #RT_samplr in the TL;DR exhibition at Heathcote Museum & Gallery?

Well, you can still get a free copy of the #RT_samplr zine and even still take part in the project! Let us know you would like us to send one out to you!! Send your postal address to rtsamplr[at]gmail.com

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Artist Name: Rebecca Clark

Tumblr: http://dharmabum61.tumblr.com/

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…The Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” —Gen 11,5-7

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If the bible says the truth, then there’s something potentially dangerous about speaking only one language. What could it be? ”Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” if our tongues were no longer split in different directions? In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Babel fish, a telepathic universal translator, is described as ”a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.” Though the argument is about as deep as the rest of the book, it suggests that language may be linked to a “Deep Magic” as C.S. Lewis might have said. What is the nature of this magic? Can it be made or unmade? Can it be learnt or must it be inherited? Language clearly is more than sound waves, just as mastering language is more than learning patterns, just as speaking is more than being a parrot. Language can set the tone for our dialogue with the divine: in Franz Werfel’s novel Song of Bernadette, the apparition of the Virgin Mary speaks not in any language but in Occitan, the vernacular spoken by the poor people of Lourdes. But which of the many tongues spoken is shared by God, if any?

[From: ”NEGOTIATING BABEL - A BILINGUAL WRITER’S R’SHIP TO LANGUAGE in Awkword Paper Cut, February 5, 2014]

#Tower of Babel #tongues #language

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Suzani embroidery, Tashkent region, Uzbekistan, circa 1880, size 260 x 216cm.

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Sans titre, 2014. 45x43cm

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Lakai silk embroidered “ilgitsch”, nomadic tribe of Central Asia, Uzbekistan, 19th C. Silk embroidery on wool mounted on cotton panel. Solar symbols of Sun with stylistic scorpions in ornaments. In the upper left corner you may find symbol small dog.