reminds me of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations quote regarding I must remain emerald

tbc

Decades before Culianu wrote Jocul de smarald, the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard had dedicated a whole chapter of his Earth and Rêveries of Will to an alike process, defining it “crystalline rêverie”: when “the dreaming eye peers with curiosity into the very center of the precious stone” (Bachelard 2000: 226), it discovers “an Imaginary Cosmos […], a world alive in every solid, bright-coloured atom” (Bachelard 2000: 248). In particular, as regards emeralds, Bachelard mentions an unknown author, who states: “the more one admires emeralds, the larger they grow, for they make the air green all around” (Bachelard 2000: 246)

Demon girls please interact

A journal’s not enough I need to stab myself

source: http://www.introni.it/pdf/Micro_57_1983.pdf

published the same year as sorayama's first gynoid for suntory

“You Know What I Mean”. Justin Heathcliff (1971; Japan only). Justin Heathcliff.

“Dr. Osamu Kitajima was already a successful composer of TV and advertising jingles, when a move to the UK in 1971 brought him in to contact with British folk and psychedelic rock. Inspired in particular by The Beatles, Tyrannousaurus Rex and Syd Barrett, he dubbed himself “Justin Heathcliff”“

““What people really want is tactile information, to be in touch with their physicality, to be able to communicate, and to grow, to touch one another and be touched. To get away from the somnambulism of contemporary life. We get all this information and there’s absolutely no way to react. You’re reading some horror in the newspaper while eating your doughnut. And if you were a natural animal you’d at least scream for fifteen minutes or chop the sofa to bits–assuming that you can’t go and change the thing that the media tells you is an outrage. So we’re trapped with all these fears of real impotence.”

— Carolee Schneemann in Youngblood’s (1970) Expanded Cinema, p.370

CHUNG KYOUNG-YEON - 어울림2011-05, 2011

James Turrell, Soft Cell, 1992

Photograph: Shigeto Anzai

Breast operation, Wellcome Library, ca. 1675

Aurelia Steiner (Vancouver), 1980, Marguerite Duras

Pina Bausch - Orpheus and Eurydice - Paris Opera Ballet 2018

Playing Card: Ten of Swords, Unidentified Artist, 19th century, Harvard Art Museums: Prints

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes Medium: Engraving with stenciled opaque watercolor on card

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/250905

John Whitney Snr - Terminal Self (1971, exhibited in the Whitney Museum’s exhibition “In the Family” in 1972.

The father of computer aesthetics created this 8 minute film through the exposure of a single photograph. 16mm.

Terminal Self (1972)

nothing like seeing rose on the tl

Ecole Le Rosey in Rolle, Switzerland (aka ‘the School of Kings’)

Hussein Chalayan 1998 AW “Panoramics”