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Thinking in the body, Balanchine conceives of “Jewels”

April 10, 2022April 17, 2022 jonathanmorse
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Unfading fluid


January 17, 2022 jonathanmorse
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Braniff International Airways: the undying idea

1965-1982, under the slogan “Flying Colors”:

2021 and forever:

December 14, 2021December 14, 2021 jonathanmorse
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Winter light: Baltic problem, Pacific solution

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Ingrid Thulin in Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light

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October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 jonathanmorse
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Lalique

August 17, 2021 jonathanmorse
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Homage to Rothko: green and black on apricot

August 15, 2021 jonathanmorse
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A general philosophical instrument of universal application

 

The theory:

David Brewster, A Treatise on the Kaleidoscope, Edinburgh, 1819. https://archive.org/details/b29295440/mode/2up

 

The actuality in advance of the theory:

August 6, 2021 jonathanmorse
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In a state of blue, the house lands with a bump.

She gets off the bed, walks to the door, opens it

and

July 2, 2021July 2, 2021 jonathanmorse
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Light cargo

April 24, 2021 jonathanmorse
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Photography shows this:

if we can attain to becoming an image, we can attain to becoming a self — that is, an object of perception knowably independent of its perceiver. What an idol communicates is only between itself and the god that speaks to itself through it. Before the idol, we perceivers are to learn to stop knowing and only see.

March 14, 2021 jonathanmorse
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