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Black Creek Pioneer Village is an historic site in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, just west of York University and southeast of the Jane and Steeles intersection. It overlooks Black Creek, a tributary of the Humber River.
The village is a recreation of life in 19th-century Ontario and gives an idea how rural Ontario might have looked in the early-to-mid 1800s.
The "pioneer" village consists of over forty historic 19th century buildings, decorated in the style of the 1860s with period furnishings. Besides the Historical Interpreters and Craftspeople housed in the restored buildings, the site also features historical reenactments and visiting artisans. Buildings include period houses, the original Stong Family farm buildings, a water-powered grist mill, a general store, a blacksmith's shop along with over 10 other trades buildings, a hotel, a church, and a one-room schoolhouse. A core of buildings built by the Stong family are on their original sites, while others have been moved in from across Southern Ontario.
The majority of the buildings were moved from their original sites (notably the large Halfway House and Mennonite Meeting House), and some re-built on their current locations.
The village is a regular destination for field trips by schoolchildren from the Greater Toronto Area.
It is operated by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.
An exhibition entitled “Brazil – In the Footsteps of Innovation and Creativity”, co-organized by WIPO and Brazil, was held on the sidelines of the WIPO Assemblies, which met in Geneva from October 3 to 11, 2016.
The exhibition showcased some of Brazil’s well-known geographical indications, including alcoholic drinks, coffee and lace. It also featured notable Brazilian innovations and designs in the field of aviation (Embraer jets), as well as precision engineering, handicraft and clothing.
Delegates to the WIPO Assemblies were also treated to a musical performance of “Capoeira” – an Afro-Brazilian mix of martial art and dance that was recognized as an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Violaine Martin. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
From my set entitled “Black Creek Pioneer Village”
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Reproduced from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black Creek Pioneer Village is an historic site in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, just west of York University and southeast of the Jane and Steeles intersection. It overlooks Black Creek, a tributary of the Humber River.
The village is a recreation of life in 19th-century Ontario and gives an idea how rural Ontario might have looked in the early-to-mid 1800s.
The "pioneer" village consists of over forty historic 19th century buildings, decorated in the style of the 1860s with period furnishings. Besides the Historical Interpreters and Craftspeople housed in the restored buildings, the site also features historical reenactments and visiting artisans. Buildings include period houses, the original Stong Family farm buildings, a water-powered grist mill, a general store, a blacksmith's shop along with over 10 other trades buildings, a hotel, a church, and a one-room schoolhouse. A core of buildings built by the Stong family are on their original sites, while others have been moved in from across Southern Ontario.
The majority of the buildings were moved from their original sites (notably the large Halfway House and Mennonite Meeting House), and some re-built on their current locations.
The village is a regular destination for field trips by schoolchildren from the Greater Toronto Area.
It is operated by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.
From my set entitled ‘Sumac”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumac (also spelled sumach) is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice often used in juice.
Sumacs grow in subtropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, especially in North America.
Sumacs are shrubs and small trees that can reach a height of 1-10 meters. The leaves are spirally arranged; they are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5-30 cm long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form dense clusters of reddish drupes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new sprouts from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
The drupes of the genus Rhus are ground into a deep-red or purple powder used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine to add a lemony taste to salads or meat; in the Turkish cuisine e.g. added to salad-servings of kebabs and lahmacun. In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed "sumac-ade" or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by soaking the drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it. Native Americans also used the leaves and berries of the smooth and staghorn sumacs combined with tobacco in traditional smoking mixtures.
Species including the fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), the littleleaf sumac (R. microphylla), the skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), the smooth sumac and the staghorn sumac are grown for ornament, either as the wild types or as cultivars.
The leaves of certain sumacs yield tannin (mostly pyrogallol), a substance used in vegetable tanning. Leather tanned with sumac is flexible, light in weight, and light in color, even bordering on being white.
Dried sumac wood is fluorescent under long-wave UV light. Mowing of sumac is not a good control measure as the wood is springy resulting in jagged, sharp pointed stumps when mowed. The plant will quickly recover with new growth after mowing. See Nebraska Extension Service publication G97-1319 for suggestions as to control.
At times Rhus has held over 250 species. Recent molecular phylogeny research suggests breaking Rhus sensu lata into Actinocheita, Baronia, Cotinus, Malosma, Searsia, Toxicodendron, and Rhus sensu stricta. If this is done, about 35 species would remain in Rhus. However, the data is not yet clear enough to settle the proper placement of all species into these genera.
St Pancras New Church (so entitled to differentiate it from an older building that remains several blocks away to the north east) was built in 1819-22 to the designs of William & Henry Inwood and is a remarkable example of the then prevalent taste for Neo-Classical architecture. Few churches can claim to be as Grecian in style as this one, which boasts the unique features of two porticoes flanking the east end copied directly from the famous caryatid porch of the Erectheum on the Athenian Acropolis, complete with column figures in terracotta (molded in sections around cast-iron columns). The spindly octagonal tower is a major landmark to visitors arriving at nearby Euston Station just over the main road (as it has welcomed me on many visits to the capital).
The interior of the church continues the theme of Classical severity, with a broad flat coffered ceiling spanning the nave with the apse beyond adding a touch of enrichment. The Victorian glass in the windows does make the space a little gloomier than it could be. The galleries remain and create side aisles beneath them but otherwise the interior retains the impression of a large unified space.
I am unsure what normal opening times are for this church but I believe it is usually open in office hours during the day.
From my set entitled ‘Sumac”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumac (also spelled sumach) is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice often used in juice.
Sumacs grow in subtropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, especially in North America.
Sumacs are shrubs and small trees that can reach a height of 1-10 meters. The leaves are spirally arranged; they are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5-30 cm long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form dense clusters of reddish drupes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new sprouts from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
The drupes of the genus Rhus are ground into a deep-red or purple powder used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine to add a lemony taste to salads or meat; in the Turkish cuisine e.g. added to salad-servings of kebabs and lahmacun. In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed "sumac-ade" or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by soaking the drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it. Native Americans also used the leaves and berries of the smooth and staghorn sumacs combined with tobacco in traditional smoking mixtures.
Species including the fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), the littleleaf sumac (R. microphylla), the skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), the smooth sumac and the staghorn sumac are grown for ornament, either as the wild types or as cultivars.
The leaves of certain sumacs yield tannin (mostly pyrogallol), a substance used in vegetable tanning. Leather tanned with sumac is flexible, light in weight, and light in color, even bordering on being white.
Dried sumac wood is fluorescent under long-wave UV light. Mowing of sumac is not a good control measure as the wood is springy resulting in jagged, sharp pointed stumps when mowed. The plant will quickly recover with new growth after mowing. See Nebraska Extension Service publication G97-1319 for suggestions as to control.
At times Rhus has held over 250 species. Recent molecular phylogeny research suggests breaking Rhus sensu lata into Actinocheita, Baronia, Cotinus, Malosma, Searsia, Toxicodendron, and Rhus sensu stricta. If this is done, about 35 species would remain in Rhus. However, the data is not yet clear enough to settle the proper placement of all species into these genera.
St Edmundsbury Cathedral (formally entitled the Cathedral Church of St James) is the cathedral for the Church of England's Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. It is the seat of the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and is in Bury St Edmunds. Originating in the 11th century, it was rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries as a parish church and became a cathedral in 1914; it has been considerably enlarged in recent decades.
A church has stood on the site of the cathedral since at least 1065, when St Denis's Church was built within the precincts of Bury St Edmunds Abbey. In the early 12th century the Abbot, Anselm had wanted to make a pilgrimage along the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela. He was unsuccessful and instead rebuilt St Denis's and dedicated the new church to Saint James, which served as the parish church for the north side of Bury St Edmunds. Anselm was also responsible for building the abbey gate tower, known today as the Norman Tower, alongside St James's, which also served as the church's belfry and it continues in this function to the present day.
This church was largely rebuilt, starting in 1503, in the Perpendicular style by John Wastell, a master mason who also worked on King's College, Cambridge. Further alterations to the building were undertaken in the 18th and 19th centuries, notably a new chancel and a hammerbeam roof by George Gilbert Scott. When the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich was created in 1914, St James's Church was made the cathedral. In 1959 Benjamin Britten wrote the Fanfare for St Edmundsbury for a "Pageant of Magna Carta" held in the cathedral grounds.
From 1959 onwards there was renewed building work designed to transform the former parish church into a cathedral building. Between 1959 and 1970, the Victorian chancel was demolished and replaced with a new quire, a cloister was added on the west side; also transepts, a Lady chapel and a side chapel dedicated to St Edmund were built. The cathedral architect from 1943 to 1988 was Stephen Dykes Bower and he left £2 million for the completion of the cathedral. In the cathedral grounds a new choir school and visitor's centre were which were opened in 1990, built by Dykes Bower's successor, Alan Rome.[1] Work started on a Gothic revival style tower in 2000; funded by the Millennium Commission, the Stephen Dykes Bower Trust and others, the Millennium Tower was designed by Hugh Matthew, an associate of Dykes Bower. The 150 foot (46 metre) structure was built from 600,000 bricks and faced with Barnack and Clipsham stone. Its completion was officially celebrated on 22 July 2005.Further additions are the Chapel of the Transfiguration and the East Cloister, both completed in 2009, and the Crypt Treasury in 2012.
Interior
The font was designed in 1870 by George Gilbert Scott, constructed on a medieval shaft, with a cover by Frank Ernest Howard of Oxford. The decoration was added in 1960. A painting, "The Martyrdom of St Edmund" by Brian Whelan hangs in the Lady Chapel.[7] A sculpture by Elizabeth Fink entitled Crucifixion stands by the Treasury steps. Stained glass in the cathedral includes the medieval Susanna Window which has Flemish glass in the lower section and English glass at the top. The west window depicts the Last Judgement and dates from about 1900.
In addition to guided tours of the cathedral itself, visitors can view changing exhibits of art in the Edmund Gallery, and an exhibit of historic and religious regalia and artefacts in the Cathedral Treasures display.
Panel from a 1944 exhibition in London, England, entitled
'Germany- the Evidence' showing 'Two Germanies.'
The panel reads 'There Are Two Germanies: One has given
great music, science, philosphy, literature, and art to the
world. The Exhibition tells of the other Germany: the
Germany that seeks world domination; the Germany that has
brought repression, sorrow, starvation, and death to
Europe.' The left panel of the tryptich lists: Holhein,
Back, Beethoven, Goehte, Ehrlich, and Einstein. The right
panel lists: Frederich the Great, Bismark, Ludendorf,
Kaiser Wilhelm II, Hitler, and Goering.
The back of the photo reads 'British Official Photograph;
Distrbuted by the Ministry of Information. D. ; The Evil We
Fight.; Ministry of Information Exhibition priduced by
Display &Exhibitions Division for show all over Great
Britain.; Display panel'
Myriam Sanfuentes (born Myriam Mayer) is the daughter of
Jean- Pierre Mayer-Astruc 1905-67) and (Zélia) Renée Kohn
(1911-2005). In keeping with family tradition, there were
many marriages between cousins. Myriam's three great-
grandmothers were first cousins; her four grandparents and
her parents were cousins. The Astruc family originally
came from Portugal, settled in Avignon and later in
Bordeaux where they were called the 'Avignonnais'. By a
royal edict of 1750, the Astruc, as well as their
descendants, were permitted to live in Bordeaux to work in
the banking and maritime commerce.
Reneé Kohn was the daughter of Marcelle Levy-Astruc and
Roger Kohn. Jean-Pierre Mayer-Astruc was the son of Marcel
Mayer-Astruc and Odette Astruc, and the great-grandson of
Belgium's Grand Rabbi Elie Aristide Astruc (1830-1905). The
Rabbi's son, Gabriel Astruc, an impresario founded the
Theatre des Champs Elysees, Paris, which first introduced
the Ballets Russes and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
Marcel's sister Genevieve was married to Hubert Ansiaux
(later Baron Ansiaux) who, as Director of the National Bank
of Belgium, in 1940 took his wife and parents-in-law,
Marcel and Odette Mayer, to England and saved the Bank's
gold reserve. While in London, Marcel Mayer-Astruc
organized an anti-Nazi exhibition entitled 'Germany the
Evidence' 1944. (He compiled a photo album of the
exhibition which Myriam Sanfuentes later donated to the
Holocaust Museum.) Marcel's only sister, Louise Ochsé, a
sculptor, and her husband Fernand died in Auschwitz in
1943.
Myriam Mayer was born in Moulins (Allier) on September 6,
1934 and spent her first five years in Paris. Her father,
a Belgian citizen, was drafted in the army in 1940, soon
taken prisoner. He spent the duration of the war in
different German prisoner-of-war camps, first in Stalag XC
and later in Stalag XB. Other prisoners denounced him as a
Jew, and as a result he was beaten and ordered to perform
the most menial tasks. When the war started, the women of
the family were vacationing in Pyla-sur-Mer, in southern
France. In 1941 Jews had to register at the town hall.
At the same time they were told to wear the yellow star,
which was taken out of their cloth allotment. One day,
French police came to their home, and arrested Myriam, her
grandmother, mother and her mother's sister and took them
to camp Merignac outside Bordeaux. For two days, they
stayed in wooden barracks. Then the authorities learned
that Myriam's grandmother was recovering from typhoid
fever. Afraid of contagion, they released the women. The
following night, they left for the Free Zone, renting a
house in the countryside in Vic-sur-Cère. They remained
there for the next two years. One evening in 1943 a young
man knocked on their door and warned them of an impending
round-up of the Jews. The women decided to flee but
disperse to different locations. Myriam was sent to a
convent of the Sisters of Saint-Vincent-de Paul in Aerium
de Gayette. She was given the assumed name of Claude
Mayet. Her mother Renée stayed with friends in Limoges,
also under an assumed identity. Her mother's sister went
to work as a farm hand. The farmers, knowing her identity,
also accepted her four-year-old little boy. Myriam and her
mother remained in hiding until their liberation in
September 1944. They reunited with Myriam's father upon
his return from prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag XI B, in 1945.
They had to rebuild their lives as their apartment in
Paris had been completely emptied by the enemy, but were
luckier than many family members who perished in Auschwitz.
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Myriam
Sanfuentes
From my set entitled ‘Sumac”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumac (also spelled sumach) is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice often used in juice.
Sumacs grow in subtropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, especially in North America.
Sumacs are shrubs and small trees that can reach a height of 1-10 meters. The leaves are spirally arranged; they are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5-30 cm long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form dense clusters of reddish drupes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new sprouts from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
The drupes of the genus Rhus are ground into a deep-red or purple powder used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine to add a lemony taste to salads or meat; in the Turkish cuisine e.g. added to salad-servings of kebabs and lahmacun. In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed "sumac-ade" or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by soaking the drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it. Native Americans also used the leaves and berries of the smooth and staghorn sumacs combined with tobacco in traditional smoking mixtures.
Species including the fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), the littleleaf sumac (R. microphylla), the skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), the smooth sumac and the staghorn sumac are grown for ornament, either as the wild types or as cultivars.
The leaves of certain sumacs yield tannin (mostly pyrogallol), a substance used in vegetable tanning. Leather tanned with sumac is flexible, light in weight, and light in color, even bordering on being white.
Dried sumac wood is fluorescent under long-wave UV light. Mowing of sumac is not a good control measure as the wood is springy resulting in jagged, sharp pointed stumps when mowed. The plant will quickly recover with new growth after mowing. See Nebraska Extension Service publication G97-1319 for suggestions as to control.
At times Rhus has held over 250 species. Recent molecular phylogeny research suggests breaking Rhus sensu lata into Actinocheita, Baronia, Cotinus, Malosma, Searsia, Toxicodendron, and Rhus sensu stricta. If this is done, about 35 species would remain in Rhus. However, the data is not yet clear enough to settle the proper placement of all species into these genera.
From my set entitled “Pulmonaria”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonaria
The lungworts are the genus Pulmonaria of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae, native to Europe and western Asia, with one species (P. mollissima) east to central Asia. According to various estimates there may be between 10 and 18 Pulmonaria species found in the wild, but the taxonomy of this genus is very confusing.
The scientific name Pulmonaria is derived from Latin pulmo (the lung). In the times of sympathetic magic, the spotted oval leaves of P. officinalis were thought to symbolize diseased, ulcerated lungs, and so were used to treat pulmonary infections. The common name in many languages also refers to lungs, as in English "lungwort" and German "Lungenkraut". In some East European languages, the common name is derived from a word for honey, e.g. Russian "medunitza" and Polish "miodunka".
English colloquial names include Lungwort, Soldiers and Sailors, Spotted dog, Joseph and Mary, Jerusalem Cowslip, Bethlehem Sage.
Lungworts are perennial herbs that form clumps or rosettes. They are covered in hairs of varied length and stiffness, and sometimes also bear glands. The underground parts consist of a slowly creeping rhizome with adventitious roots. Flowering stems are unbranched, rough, covered with bristly hairs, usually not exceeding 25–30cm, with a few exceptions (P. mollis, P. vallarsae). The stems are usually upright, or slightly spreading.
The leaves are arranged in rosettes. The blades are usually large, from narrowly lanceolate to oval, with the base ranging from heart shaped to very gradually narrowing, and can have a sharply pointed or blunt tip. Leaf margin is always entire, but in some species and forms can be rather wavy. Basal leaves are carried on stalks that can be short or longer than the leave blade in various species. Stem leaves are smaller and often narrower, and are unstalked or clasping the stem. All leaves are covered with hairs that are usually bristly, or occasionally soft. The leaves are often prominently spotted in black and blue, or sometimes in pale green, or unspotted.
The inflorescence is a terminal scorpioid cyme, with bracts. Lungwort flowers are heterostylous, with two distinct forms of flower within each species; those with short stamens and long styles ("pin" flowers) and those with long stamens and short styles ("thrum" flowers), with the former usually being larger and more showy. The calyx is hairy, 5-lobed, tubular or funnel-shaped, enlarging as the fruit ripens. The corolla is funnel-shaped and consists of a long, cylindrical tube and a limb with five shallow lobes. Within the corolla throat, five tufts of hairs alternate with the stamens to form a ring. The colour of corolla varies from purple, violet or blue to shades of pink and red, or sometimes white. The colour of the flower in bud is often pink, which then changes as the flower matures. The stamens and style are included within the corolla and not protruding.
The nutlets are smooth, egg-shaped, brownish, up to 4.5 mm long and 3 mm wide, each containing a single seed. Up to four nutlets per flower are produced, ripening mostly in summer.
Pulmonaria species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora pulmonariella which feeds exclusively on P. saccharata.
From my set entitled “Solomon’s Seal”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Polygonatum (King Solomon's-seal, Solomon's Seal) is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants within the family Ruscaceae, formerly classified in the lily family Liliaceae.
Some species of this genus have medicinal properties, and some (in particular P. sibiricum) are used as an tisane in traditional Chinese medicine, which is called dungulle in Korea.
Some Polygonatum shoots are edible, cooked like asparagus, as are the roots - after appropriate treatment - being a good source of starch
Revolving primarily around the root, "Solomon's Seal" are traditionally used in a range of afflictions from menopause to broken bones. As a topical application, the root are said to expedite the healing of cuts and bruises, skin irritations and inflammations, and as a face wash is good for acne, blemishes and all kinds of imperfections of the skin. When consumed as a tea, it is said to alleviate a range of symptoms associated with menopause, indigestion, diabetes, broken bones, insomnia, kidney pains, and even infertility]
Its use to fight diabetes was first observed in 1930 by Langecker. After experiments, he concluded that it was effective in fighting nutritional hyperglycemia, though not that caused by adrenaline release, probably due to its content in glucokinin.
Mural entitled “Arianrhod” by Robin Munro aka @_dreadgod_ located at 3500 Delgany Street in the RiNo area of Denver, Colorado.
Arianrhod is the Celtic goddess of air, reincarnation, full moons, time, karma and retribution.
Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
Edit by Teee.
Original hand-painted poster entitled “The V Hand: Welcome Block Leaders,” promoting a week-long meeting from March 30-April 3 of an unspecified year with a local Office of Civilian Defense block leader, who would explain how households could participate in community wartime programs such as salvage and Victory gardens during World War II. The poster features a dark-colored hand with the Civilian Defense community programs written on its fingers. The hand is that of an African American, with the poster believed to have been used within an unidentified African American community in North Carolina to promote community Civilian Defense programs during the war. The poster also has a large logo of the Office of Civilian Defense on the bottom in the characteristic blue, red, and white symbol. This poster was believed to have been used in Wake County, NC, during the war [1940s] [Poster has paint missing and smeared from poor storage over time and being rubbed off. A placard with the date is loose, having been attached with a metal paperclip to the side of the poster; the metal clip was replaced with a large plastic archival clip].
From North Carolina WWII Home Front Posters, WWII 11, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
© All Rights Reserved - No Usage Allowed in Any Form Without the Written Consent of Connie Lemperle/ lemperleconnie
This creation is entitled “Charleston Mansion.” This mansion is an example of antebellum architecture which typifies the homes along the battery of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. The mansion has three floors flanked by galleries, a large attic with a dormer window and is crowned with a belvedere from where one can view Fort Sumter across Charleston Harbor. It has a private balcony on the third floor as well as a two-story solarium at the back of the house. The mansion is 22 inches wide, 21 inches in length and 27 inches tall and is landscaped with lush shrubbery, flowers and palmetto trees.
This engraving, entitled "Soldier's Reading-room, St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham" appeared in the Illustrated London News of Saturday 8th March 1856. The accompanying article reads:
SOLDIERS' READING-ROOM, ST. MARY'S BARRACKS, CHATHAM.
THIS extended line of Barracks was built during the Peninsular War, and was first used to accommodate the French prisoners: here it was so many expressed their sense of the great consideration shown them by the Government of this country. When the barracks ceased to be in requisition for the above purpose they underwent material alteration, and, after being rendered bomb-proof were converted into extensive powder magazines, continuing to be used as such for many years. Being at a considerable distance from the other buildings occupied by troops, and great inconvenience arising from this cause, detached powder magazines, more compact and contiguous to the different stations, were erected; when St. Mary's Barracks were used as stores for the Royal Engineers. As our Indian territory increased a corresponding supply of well-trained young men from the Provisional Battalion became necessary; in consequence of which. during one period of the year especially, the entire space of Chatham Barracks was required for this additional influx, and then it was thought expedient to appropriate a part of St. Mary's for the reception of such regiments as might arrive from foreign stations, or as a temporary barrack for a part of the Provisional Battalion instead of sending them to Canterbury.
The annual return of between three and four thousand soldiers from India and the British Colonies - who, either from impaired health, or, having served their full term, were considered exempt from further active service - induced the authorities to decide upon St. Mary's Barracks as the fittest place for them, and since the year 1844 they have been exclusively set apart for the temporary quarters of such previous to their final disposal.
The situation of St. Mary's Barracks is remarkable for salubrity of air, and the surrounding scenery is exceedingly picturesque. On the east, the river Medway extends as far as the eye can reach, studded with numbers of men of-war, and enlivened by the constant passing of vessels. Towards the south, the rich valley of Gillingham and Rainham presents a pleasing view, which, during summer and autumn, is rendered still more attractive by its numerous cherry and apple orchards. On the west, Upna Castle, with it surrounding panoramic scenery, and the river in the foreground, invariably offers a pleasing prospect. Indeed, St. Mary's Invalid Barracks, standing on a light loamy soil, within the line of fortifications, are capable, with their many natural advantages, of being rendered by a little taste a most desirable station.
St. Mary's Barracks have, of late, been a place of special interest, they having been the receptacle of so many thousands of men - some, after a long and honourable career, to return to the place of their birth, carrying with them the rewards of merit; some, less fortunate, to whom loss of health in a tropical clime has proved a barrier to their promotion; and last, though not least, the fearful number of the wounded, whose military career has been arrested by those many casualties war so necessarily entails. The Barracks have lately been honoured with the visits - first of his Royal highness Prince Albert, when he became a spectator of the mode of attack, scaling of walls, hand•grenading, and the explosion of mines, attending a siege; and next by that of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen to such of her brave army as returned invalided from the seat of war.
For the use of the invalids in the Barracks, a Library is now being fitted up in one of the rooms of the Upper Gallery, and will form a most important feature of attraction to the soldiers, and a general acquisition to these Barracks. About 800 volumes of historical and miscellaneous works have already been provided. Bookshelves are to be arranged on each side, a table extending down the centre, and the apartment will be lighted with gas. The heads of the different departments of the garrison have been very anxious for this important object; and it will, doubtless, be a great inducement for numbers of the invalids to remain quietly in barracks instead of passing their time so unprofitably in the town.
The accompanying illustration shows the Reading-room, as far as this very desirable improvement has progressed.
This gives a very different impression of the barrack than is seen in an account by George Russell Dartnell (1799-1878), an army surgeon who was, at that time, Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals. He wrote a manuscript entitled “A few brief Anecdotes connected with Her Majesty’s visit to the Hospitals at Chatham, 1855-6, written by G. R. Dartnell, D.I.G.H.” from which the following extract is taken recounting Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's visit to the barracks in June 1855:
After inspecting the men on the ground the Queen and party walked across to see the Casemate Barracks, about which so much has been said and written of late. She went into one or two of the upper rooms and was quite horrified at them. “Are these really the barrack rooms of these Invalids?” she said to me: I said, “Yes indeed they are your Majesty” And Prince Albert, looking over towards the splendid Convict Prison recently built in view of the Casemate Barracks, said “Well it seems very extraordinary that there should be no difficulty in obtaining money to erect a magnificent building like this for convicts, and that it should be impossible to find the means of building a commonly comfortable Barrack for convalescent soldiers.
Students from The Royal Ballet School and Harris Academy Tottenham performing their collaborative piece entitled 'STOP!'. ©The Royal Ballet School. Photo: Rachel Cherry
Yearbook photo entitled "Seminary Boys," showing women dressed in men's suits and hats at Oxford Seminary, 1907 From the 1907 edition of Phoenix, page 114.
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From my set entitled “Smokebush”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Smoketree or Smoke bush (Cotinus) is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, closely related to the sumacs (Rhus). They are large shrubs or small trees, native to the warm temperate Northern Hemisphere. The leaves are deciduous, alternate, simple oval shape, 3-13 cm long. The flowers are clustered in a large open terminal panicles 15-30 cm long with a fluffy grayish-buff appearance resembling a cloud of smoke over the plant, from which the name derives. The fruit is a small drupe with a single seed. Often classified in Rhus in the past, they are distinguished by the leaves being simple (not pinnate) and the 'smoke-like' fluffy flower heads.
The American Smoketree (Cotinus obovatus, syn. Rhus cotinoides) is native to the southeastern United States, from Tennessee south to Alabama and west to eastern Texas. It is a larger plant, frequently becoming a small tree up to 10-12 m tall and with a trunk up to 25 cm diameter. The leaves are also larger, 6-13 cm long; it also has varied but very bright fall color, usually brighter than the Eurasian species. The flower heads are usually sparser than in C. coggygria.
The smoketrees, particularly C. coggygria, are popular garden shrubs. Several bronze or purple-leaved cultivars of C. coggygria have been selected, with warm pink inflorescences set against purple-black foliage; the commonest in commerce are 'Notcutt's Variety' and 'Royal Purple'. When brought into cultivation together, the two species will form hybrids; some garden cultivars are of this parentage.
Cultivation is best in dry, infertile soils, which keeps the growth habit more compact and also improves the autumn colour; when planted in fertile soil, they become large, coarse and also tend to be short-lived, succumbing to verticillium wilt disease. Both species can be coppiced in early spring, to produce first-year shoots up to 2 m tall with large handsome leaves, but no "smoke".
This exhibition, entitled 'Nah Poeh Meng' (Along The Continuous Path) is permanently displayed at the Poeh Cultural Center and Museum in Pojoaque, New Mexico. Pojoaque Pueblo is one of the six Tewa-speaking Rio Grande Pueblos. The museum is devoted to the arts and culture of the Puebloan peoples, especially the Tewas in the northern part of the state.
The Nah Poeh Meng display is divided into six rooms with each room based upon both a temporal and seasonal theme. The figurative sculptures are the work of Pueblo artist Roxanne Swentzell and the painted murals are by Marcellus Medina.
Detail of a beautiful painting entitled ‘Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor and His Family’. Attributed to Ludgar tom Ring the Younger, c.1575-80. In the centre piece is Christ depicted alongside an unknown Westphalian family. To the left and right of this are two portraits, one of a man, the other of a woman (not included here). This painting may have been commissioned on the marriage of a member of the family included, with the groom and bride being depicted to the side of the piece.
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The flowers strewn on the table before Christ represent love, commitment, faith and possibly fertility. The family’s Protestant faith is indicated, particularly with the texts above the figures. The texts in question are from the Gospel of St John and from Psalms which are taken from Martin Luther’s translation of the Bible into Low German.
The painting is included in the European Paintings collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Photography is permitted.
From my set entitled “Black Creek Pioneer Village”
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In my collection entitled "Places"
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Reproduced from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black Creek Pioneer Village is an historic site in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, just west of York University and southeast of the Jane and Steeles intersection. It overlooks Black Creek, a tributary of the Humber River.
The village is a recreation of life in 19th-century Ontario and gives an idea how rural Ontario might have looked in the early-to-mid 1800s.
The "pioneer" village consists of over forty historic 19th century buildings, decorated in the style of the 1860s with period furnishings. Besides the Historical Interpreters and Craftspeople housed in the restored buildings, the site also features historical reenactments and visiting artisans. Buildings include period houses, the original Stong Family farm buildings, a water-powered grist mill, a general store, a blacksmith's shop along with over 10 other trades buildings, a hotel, a church, and a one-room schoolhouse. A core of buildings built by the Stong family are on their original sites, while others have been moved in from across Southern Ontario.
The majority of the buildings were moved from their original sites (notably the large Halfway House and Mennonite Meeting House), and some re-built on their current locations.
The village is a regular destination for field trips by schoolchildren from the Greater Toronto Area.
It is operated by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.
Miro's Chicago
Also entitled: "The Sun, The Moon and One Star", 1967
Installed: 1981
Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Brunswick Plaza
West of 60 West Washington Street
(between Dearborn and Clark Streets)
Her shape and pose reminiscent of the famous Minoan snake goddess figurine from Crete, Miro’s Chicago is a 39-foot / 12 meter tall stylized female form fashioned from concrete over a metallic armature, ceramic tile, and bronze, on a travertine stone base.
Placed in a small plaza between the Chicago Temple Building and the Cook County Administration Building, the statue is often overlooked in favor of Picasso's sculpture in Daley Center Plaza on the opposite side of the street.
Originally to be installed the same year as Picasso’s work, the plan was abandoned, due to financial issues, by the Brunswick Corporation, which commissioned the piece. It remained a small maquette for some 18 years until a committee, led by Stanley Freehlin, raised over half of the necessary funds from private donors and the City of Chicago contributed matching funds. The finished figure was unveiled on April 20, 1981, by Chicago’s first female mayor, Jane Byrne. The Art Institute of Chicago maintains Miro's plaster "Chicago" maquette from 1963: www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/100666.
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THE LOOP:
Chicago's "Loop" is the city's official downtown area. The second largest downtown business district in the United States, the Loop's boundaries are the Chicago River on the west, Michigan Avenue on the east, Wacker Drive on the north and Congress Parkway on the south. The Loop is known for its famous skyscrapers and historic buildings; it has been the site of architectural creativity and experimentation for years.
From my set entitled “Tuberous Begonia”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Begonia is a genus in the flowering plant family Begoniaceae. The only other member of the family Begoniaceae is Hillebrandia, a genus with a single species in the Hawaiian Islands. The genus Symbegonia is now included in Begonia. "Begonia" is the common name as well as the generic name for all members of the genus.
With ca. 1500+ species, Begonia is one of the ten largest angiosperm genera. The species are terrestrial (sometimes epiphytic) herbs or undershrubs and occur in subtropical and tropical moist climates, in South and Central America, Africa and southern Asia. Terrestrial species in the wild are commonly upright-stemmed, rhizomatous, or tuberous. The plants are monoecious, with unisexual male and female flowers occurring separately on the same plant, the male containing numerous stamens, the female having a large inferior ovary and two to four branched or twisted stigmas. In most species the fruit is a winged capsule containing numerous minute seeds, although baccate fruits are also known. The leaves, which are often large and variously marked or variegated, are usually asymmetric (unequal-sided).
Because of their sometimes showy flowers of white, pink, scarlet or yellow color and often attractively marked leaves, many species and innumerable hybrids and cultivars are cultivated. The genus is unusual in that species throughout the genus, even those coming from different continents, can frequently be hybridized with each other, and this has led to an enormous number of cultivars. The American Begonia Society classifies begonias into several major groups: cane-like, shrub-like, tuberous, rhizomatous, semperflorens, rex, trailing-scandent, or thick-stemmed. For the most part these groups do not correspond to any formal taxonomic groupings or phylogeny and many species and hybrids have characteristics of more than one group, or fit well into none of them.
The genus name honors Michel Bégon, a French patron of botany.
The different groups of begonias have different cultural requirements but most species come from tropical regions and therefore they and their hybrids require warm temperatures. Most are forest understory plants and require bright shade; few will tolerate full sun, especially in warmer climates. In general, begonias require a well-drained growing medium that is neither constantly wet nor allowed to dry out completely. Many begonias will grow and flower year-round but tuberous begonias usually have a dormant period, during which the tubers can be stored in a cool and dry place.
Begonias of the semperflorens group are frequently grown as bedding plants outdoors. A recent group of hybrids derived from this group is marketed as "Dragonwing Begonias"; they are much larger both in leaf and in flower. Tuberous begonias are frequently used as container plants. Although most Begonia species are tropical or subtropical in origin, the Chinese species B. grandis is hardy to USDA hardiness zone 6 and is commonly known as the "hardy begonia". Most begonias can be grown outdoors year-round in subtropical or tropical climates, but in temperate climates begonias are grown outdoors as annuals, or as house or greenhouse plants.
Most begonias are easily propagated by division or from stem cuttings. In addition, many can be propagated from leaf cuttings or even sections of leaves, particularly the members of the rhizomatous and rex groups.
The cultivar Kimjongilia is a floral emblem of North Korea.
A large-scale print from the series by photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto entitled 'Henry the VIII and His Six Wives'. This photograph was part of a 2012 exhibit entitled "About Face" at 'Pier 24 Photography', a private museum in San Francisco. Pier 24 is a critically acclaimed, photography collection owned by investment banker Andrew P. Pilara Jr. The collection is housed and displayed in a converted waterfront warehouse located at Pier 24 on the Embarcadero directly beneath the Bay Bridge in San Francisco.
Anne of Cleves (1515–1557) was Queen of England for only six months from January, 1540 to July, 1540 as the fourth wife of King Henry VIII. The marriage was declared never consummated, and she was not crowned queen consort. Following the annulment of their marriage, Anne was given a generous settlement by the King, and thereafter referred to as the King's Beloved Sister. She lived to see the coronation of Queen Mary I, outliving Henry's five other wives.
This image of Anne of Cleves is in fact a photograph of a waxwork made by the legendary Madame Tussaud. Sugimoto placed a black velvet cloth behind the waxwork and used a 3/4 turned and cropped framing of the “figure” akin to the first portrait photographers in the mid-nineteenth century. In so doing, he breathes photographic life into the layers of simulation and equivalence of his historic subject.
Sugimoto was born in Tokyo in 1947 and came to Los Angeles in the 70's to study photography at the Art Center College of Design. He moved to New York in 1974, and began a series of photographs of dioramas at the Museum of Natural History. From 1978, in cinemas across the USA, he photographed Theatres, screen images each made with a single exposure lasting for the duration of a film. He began photographing Seascapes in the 1980s and 1990s. His first book, Sugimoto, appeared in 1988. Recent work includes the series Sanjusangendo, Hall of Thirty-Three Bays (1995) of Buddhist statues, and portraits of the historical figures at Madame Tussaud's Museum (Wax Museums, since 1994).
This Thermal King Glass Asshole Motorist has ZERO FUCKS to give about the law or pedestrian Right-Of-Way.
I wonder if he'll feel the same way about the ticket?
Entitled A north-easterly aspect of Lyttelton from near the Oil Wharf, this is an image by a local photographer.
This photograph was stolen and published by Harcourts Group Ltd for the specific purpose of making a commercial profit or gain; namely, to promote sales of the Fitzroy Head residential subdivision.
In deliberate infringement of New Zealand’s Copyright Act, the photograph appeared in a double page advertisement of issue 506 of the Bluebook Canterbury magazine. It was also used on twelve pages of four separate web sites (one of which, Harcourts proclaim, receives more than half a million views each month).
In late 2008, Bryan John Thomson, CEO of the Riccarton, Christchurch based Harcourts Group was asked by the amateur photographer to address the matter of this theft of intellectual property. He responded with the assurance that "this matter will be addressed in the appropriate manner."
With no subsequent communication, Thomson's interpretation of an appropriate manner might appear to constitute ignoring a criminal offence punishable by substantial fines and a lengthy custodial sentence.
Perception IS NOT Reality is the title of Thomson's latest blog post. In view of the foregoing it could seem that the chief executive of the New Zealand’s largest real estate group's personal perception of legal responsibility may be overdue for a reality check.
Now an international conglomerate in an industry whose ethics are reputedly perceived by New Zealanders with less than favour, the Harcourts Group is currently part of the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World global network of nearly 700 real estate companies with 5,500 offices and 170,000 sales associates in 38 countries.
ADDENDUM
The theft of Intellectual Property breaches the Code of Ethics of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand. In what might well be construed as an endorsement of the criminality of its members, the Institute has failed to respond to a formal complaint by the photographer.
Museum de Fundatie Zwolle NL presents an exhibition entitled Giacometti-Chadwick, Facing Fear, to run from 22 September 2018 to 6 January 2019. The sculptures of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) are manifestations of the sense of fear and disillusionment that pervaded Europe during the Cold War period. Their work bids a final farewell to pre-war romanticism and aestheticism, and lands with both feet in the raw reality of the post-war world. While Giacometti reduced the human form to its bare essentials, Chadwick created powerful archetypal images of both people and animals. The exhibition includes more than 150 works. Never before has the work of Giacometti and Chadwick been so explicitly brought together.
Their paths first crossed in 1956, when Chadwick became the youngest person ever to win the Grand Prix for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale. With only six years’ experience as a sculptor, the British artist snatched the prize from Giacometti, the hot favourite, who was thirteen years older and already a major name in Paris. Giacometti would go on to win the prize in 1962, but which of the two men was awarded it in 1956 is less significant than the fact that these two particular sculptors were the front-runners at that time. Each of them was expressing, in his own individual way, the sense of deep-seated angst that overshadowed day-to-day life in Europe in the fifties and sixties: the fear of a global nuclear disaster that would wipe out human civilisation.
Alberto Giacometti is among the most significant figures in the whole field of modern European sculpture. A member of a notable family of Swiss artists, he moved to Paris in 1922 and would remain there for the rest of his life, working as a sculptor, painter and graphic artist. After training with Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, he discovered modernism and so-called ‘primitive’ ethnographic art of Africa and Oceania. In response to these influences, his work became more abstract. In the early thirties, his Surrealist sculptures expressing subconscious emotions created a furore. From 1935, however, personal psychological tensions triggered a crisis in his life and work that led to a return to the human figure. Initially, his portraits and figures became both increasingly tiny and more and more attenuated. This thinness was to remain the most distinctive feature of Giacometti’s art. After the Second World War, he began to create the elongated, emaciated figures that would bring him worldwide fame. In all their attenuation, they reduce humanity to its very essence and appear both vulnerable and enigmatic.
In the early fifties, up-and-coming artist Lynn Chadwick managed to dislodge Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth from their dominant position in the field of British sculpture. Born in London, Chadwick had started his career as a technical draughtsman and exhibition stand designer. He took an equally constructional approach to his sculpture: rather than model his human and animal figures in clay or wax, he constructed them by welding steel rods together to create an armature and then filling in the gaps with a kind of cement. The angularity of the work being produced by him and other young British artists was described in 1952 as ‘the geometry of fear’, a reference to the constant dread of nuclear annihilation. Chadwick’s apocalyptic Dancers and stoical Watchers gave powerful expression to this sense of angst. From the early seventies, he broadened his repertoire to include subjects that seem to restore the sovereignty of the human spirit. Sculptures like Cloaked Figure and Sitting Couple no longer look threatening, but emanate a sense of composure and invulnerability.
Giacometti’s pre-war work influenced Chadwick’s development and the two men were keenly aware of each other’s presence. In addition to the vast differences, there are also many similarities between their oeuvres. Giacometti-Chadwick, Facing Fear is the product of close cooperation with the Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence and the Chadwick Estate and Blain|Southern gallery in London.
In 1923, Kansas City, Missouri animator Walt Disney created a short film entitled Alice's Wonderland, which featured child actress Virginia Davis interacting with animated characters. Film distributor Margaret J. Winkler contacted Disney with plans to distribute a whole series of Alice Comedies based upon Alice's Wonderland. The contract signed, Walt and his brother Roy Disney moved to Los Angeles, California and set up shop in their uncle Robert Disney's garage, marking the beginning of the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. Within a few months, the company moved into the back of a realty office in downtown Los Angeles, where production continued on the Alice Comedies until 1927. In 1926, the studio moved to a newly constructed studio facility on Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. From: wikipedia.
But wait; there's more!
The Hyperion is a fictional 1907 French airship, featured in the 1974 Walt Disney film “The Island at the Top of the World.” Although the airship appears for only a relatively small portion of the overall length of the film, it plays a prominent role, both as a memorable set piece and in the film’s plot line. The airship is visually stunning and is in the tradition of great Disney machines like the Nautilus from "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea." The airship has an obvious Jules Verne quality to it. From: wikipedia.
No, we're not done yet:
Hyperion (Greek Ὑπερίων, "The High-One") is one of the twelve Titan gods of Ancient Greece, which were later supplanted by the Olympians. He was the son of Gaia (the physical incarnation of Earth) and Uranus (literally meaning 'the Sky'), and was referred to in early mythological writings as Helios Hyperion (Ἥλιος Υπερίων), 'Sun High-one'. But in the Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter the Sun is once in each work called Hyperionides (περίδής) 'son of Hyperion', and Hesiod certainly imagines Hyperion as a separate being in other writings. From: wikipedia.
And ofcourse Wikipedia offers a lot more on Hyperion!
Los Angeles (pronounced /lɒs ˈændʒələs/ los-AN-jə-ləs; Spanish: [los ˈaŋxeles], Spanish for "The Angels") is the second largest city in the United States, and with a population of 3.8 million is the largest city in the state of California and the Western United States. From wikipedia
Does anyone notice the Killer Car?
This statue entitled Montana stands seventeen-feet-high and was intended to be the personification of liberty. Sculptor Edward J. Van Landeghem was its creator. It was placed atop the capitol during construction in the December of 1900.
The stunning Montana State Capitol in Helena was constructed at a cost of $540,000 from 1899 to 1902 using the designs of Council Bluffs, Iowa architects Charles Emlen Bell and John Hackett Kent. In 1909-12 additions were placed on the east and west sides of the building under the supervision of architects Frank M. Andrews of New York and John G. Link and Charles S. Haire of Montana.
From my set entitled ‘Sumac”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumac (also spelled sumach) is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice often used in juice.
Sumacs grow in subtropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, especially in North America.
Sumacs are shrubs and small trees that can reach a height of 1-10 meters. The leaves are spirally arranged; they are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5-30 cm long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form dense clusters of reddish drupes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new sprouts from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
The drupes of the genus Rhus are ground into a deep-red or purple powder used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine to add a lemony taste to salads or meat; in the Turkish cuisine e.g. added to salad-servings of kebabs and lahmacun. In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed "sumac-ade" or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by soaking the drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it. Native Americans also used the leaves and berries of the smooth and staghorn sumacs combined with tobacco in traditional smoking mixtures.
Species including the fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), the littleleaf sumac (R. microphylla), the skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), the smooth sumac and the staghorn sumac are grown for ornament, either as the wild types or as cultivars.
The leaves of certain sumacs yield tannin (mostly pyrogallol), a substance used in vegetable tanning. Leather tanned with sumac is flexible, light in weight, and light in color, even bordering on being white.
Dried sumac wood is fluorescent under long-wave UV light. Mowing of sumac is not a good control measure as the wood is springy resulting in jagged, sharp pointed stumps when mowed. The plant will quickly recover with new growth after mowing. See Nebraska Extension Service publication G97-1319 for suggestions as to control.
At times Rhus has held over 250 species. Recent molecular phylogeny research suggests breaking Rhus sensu lata into Actinocheita, Baronia, Cotinus, Malosma, Searsia, Toxicodendron, and Rhus sensu stricta. If this is done, about 35 species would remain in Rhus. However, the data is not yet clear enough to settle the proper placement of all species into these genera.
August 11, 2011
The Daily Show’s John Stewart comments on Fox News' Megyn Kelly’s return from
maternity leave with a more liberal perspective on mandated benefits and entitlement programs.
Religious freaks abound around here. Racist, Homophobic, LOUD, obnoxious, righteous, horrifying entitled attitudes... and one of my neighbors PAINTED on their door a white cross. She also stands in her doorway and screams at people, slapping her hands against the doorframe, shouting "SHALOMM!!! SHALOMM!!" I have no idea, but it's frickin creepy and a total assault on the senses. You can hear chanting and screaming and HOWL LA LOO YAAAH!!'s all night long from large groups crammed into small apartments and sporting bibles like weaponry.
Entitled ‘Memories ever.’, the verse printed on the front of this postcard reads, ‘We send this loving message / To you across the sea, / And hope you’re safe / and free from harm, / Wherever you may be’. A childish hand has penned the following message on the reverse: ‘To my Dear Da / From his little Christie wishing him soon home / Best love x x x x x x / I am going to love him a big bit when he comes home (Christy)’. The information printed on the back states, ‘All British Production / Series No 496-2’.
A new campaign highlighting robbery was launched in Bedfordshire earlier this week. Entitled ‘Stay Safe: Help put ‘Robin’ Robber’ Behind Bars…Bedfordshire Police wants to know who is committing robbery where you live…’ it is designed to reduce crime, detect crime and de-assure offenders.
Life size cut outs of ‘Robin Robber’ seen ‘behind bars’, or in this case park railings, have been put up in areas of Luton and Bedford that are popular with the public to act as a deterrent to would-be offenders who are thinking about committing crime.
Jo Hobbs, Media Relations Manager said: “We are trying something new with this campaign and using psychological warfare to de-assure criminals, but also show the public we are making a dent and reducing crime. The signs inform the public that 461 ‘robbers’ have been arrested already this year. “. The campaign also educates the public to what is defined as robbery.
A robbery is when a person uses or threatens to use force to steal. It is more serious than theft and you can be guilty of robbery even if you are just part of a group that robbed someone. Robbery carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Threatening someone in order to take possessions from them is not bullying, but robbery and convictions for this offence carry a custodial sentence.
There are 10 signs in total; which have been placed in Luton and Bedford. Robin’ Robber is also being promoted on-line via the force website and all social media channels. For more information on the campaign, click here.
At Bedfordshire Police our aim is "fighting crime, protecting the public.",
We cover 477 square miles, serve a population of around 550,000 and employ in the region of 1,260 Police Officers, 950 police staff and 120 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs). For more details about the force, visit our website www.bedfordshire.police.uk
Title / Titre :
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, a poem entitled “Scotch Drink” /
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, poème intitulé « Scotch Drink ».
Description :
The first edition of Robert Burns’ Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect was published in Kilmarnock, Scotland in 1786. Only about 600 copies were printed. The finely-bound copy now held by Library and Archives Canada was a gift from the British Government on the occasion of Canada’s centennial in 1967. Its green leather binding with gold-tooled decorations and silk endpapers was created in the 19th century by the well-known British bookbinder Robert Riviere. /
La première édition de Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, de Robert Burns, a été publiée à Kilmarnock, en Écosse, en 1786. Seulement 600 exemplaires environ ont été imprimés. L’exemplaire finement relié que possède maintenant Bibliothèque et Archives Canada était un cadeau du gouvernement anglais à l’occasion de centenaire du Canada, en 1967. Sa reliure en cuir vert comportant des décorations or et des pages de garde en soie a été créée au 19e siècle par le célèbre relieur anglais Robert Riviere.
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Robert Burns
Date(s) : 1786
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : OCLC 4752176
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Location / Lieu : Kilmarnock, Scotland / Kilmarnock, Écosse
Credit / Mention de source :
Robert Burns. Library and Archives Canada, Kilmarnock : Printed by J. Wilson, 1786 /
Robert Burns. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, Kilmarnock : Printed by J. Wilson, 1786
Today. Today marks the start of a new sub-series of project 365 that I am entitling "The Difference". This sub-series will contain pictures from the Lawrence University campus that were taken this past weekend. I visited the campus on assignment after some fellow Lawrentians discovered a few of my other Lawrence University shots.
I arrived in Appleton early Saturday afternoon, granted this time of day is not the best for light, the clouds were looking very nice. Upon arrival, I met with Sheree, Lawrence's director of communications, and the woman behind The Lawrence University Facebook Page. Sheree and I discussed everything Lawrence, and was hoping that I would be able to capture some of the stories behind Lawrence University and its campus via photograph. I have never been this photographically motivated! I was, after all, seeking to capture the "Lawrence Difference" through a means in which it has never before been captured - high dynamic range photography. For those of you that did not attend Lawrence, the "Lawrence Difference" is a tagline used very often on campus. Former Larry U president Richard Warch tries explaining it here. I worn you that I have not read his entire piece. I am still stuck in the first paragraph trying to figure out what "matriculation" means in this sentence (I don't see how women having their periods has anything to do with the University.) The "Lawrence Difference" to me is the reason I came here instead of the state school that all of my friends went to. So, for the next 14 days or so, I will bring you a new photo of Lawrence, and I hope to tell you a new story through each photo that I post. Enjoy!
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PETER CUNNINGHAM recently returned from China where he is teaching Chinese photographers and completing his STILL FILM entitled Cultural Evolution. This might seem a long journey from his first paid job as a photographer in 1973, when, for $25 he made Bruce Springsteen's first pictures at Columbia Records and later did the same for Madonna. Peter learned to be a professional photographer creating images for famous performers in music and theater, he did this for 15 years (portfolio) until the birth of MTV made the field less interesting.
At the same time he learned to remain a passionate amateur from photographer Adger Cowens who taught about seeing not objects in one's camera, but perceiving objects as the light that is bouncing off them, mixing it with your feelings and history and mythology, and and responding from your gut. Peter also learned from Henri Cartier-Bresson who he was privildged to assist in 1975. The two traveled every day for a month to New Jersey to document what HCB considered the prototypical American state. My job was to talk to everyone so Henri could concentrate on seeing. The New York Times gave Henri it's lead op-ed space on the day Bill Moyers aired the show.
Also in 1980, Peter began studies with Bernie Glassman at the Zen Community of New York. His first public exhibitiion, "THIS IS IT? was held in the cafe sponsored by ZCNY; that little cafe evolved into The Greyston Bakery famous for cakes and cookies and for revivifying people with difficult histories. Peter's travels and friendships among Zen practitioners and teachers in Japan, Europe, The Middle East, and The United States have been a great blessing and influence on his life and work. His trip to Japan with Bernie and Peter Matthiessen to visit the ancestors of Bernie's teacher, Maezumi Roshi, resulted in the publicaton of "Nine-Headed Dragon River"; Peter has helped document the migration of Zen Buddhist practice from Japan to the West. After Maezumi Roshi's death in 1995 the practice, while retaining it's traditional form in many places, also evolved into new American/European forms. Bernie Glassman took his students into the streets or to sit meditation in Auschwitz-Birkenau and has now created The Peacemaker Community; Genpo Roshi started his Big Mind form of teaching, and throughout the West; many of the best teachers of the next genereation are women, a development that would have been inconceivable in Japan.
'In about 1980 cable tv was being launched and I was asked by an ad agency to create a series of 20 posters of people (my friends) which were displayed on the NYC subways in all 5 boroughs. I took the opportunity to take make a second more personal portrait of my models posed next to the purposeful commercial image on the postere. This series became the Black&White portion of Peter's first major exhibition in 1982 at Harkness House curated by Liz Thompson and Kathy DeShaw.
The other half of this 1982 exhibition framed color prints in combinations, and thus began the long evolution of the theatrically-scaled triptych medium Peter calls "StillFilm". Peter has exhibited still films around the world; in 2005 he showed the Still Films in Krakow, London, Paris, and Berlin. ..... the web version he calls "StillTV".
In 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell, Peter, based in New York City,began creating a Still Film he calls BLINDERS. I wondered what would replace the authoritarian structures that had ruled in the East, what systems are in place in the West that keep people well behaved and going to work day after day."
Peter continued this general theme in Berlin in 1994 with his still film WÄNDE WENDE (Walls Change) Previewing the still film's debut at The Knitting Factory, The New Yorker says about Cunningham, "These visual poems are decidedly more ambitious than his celebrity work; in the past they've consisted of essays on nature and consumerism. He shot his latest still film in Berlin, and it addresses, in a stunningly colorful fashion, how the walls that hem us in are not necessarily made of concrete."
Peter's current work in China, Cultural Revolution is based on a similar idea, that images have a kind of persuasive power was once wielded by guns. Peter imagines presenting these three shows together in their home cities: New York, Berlin, and Beijing:
Hello, My name is John Lewis Jensen, and I've been making high-end Art Knives since 1994.
This project, entitled “ALCHEMY”, is one of those projects I started many years ago (2004), but which ended up on the back burner until 2012, when I re-commenced it.
This project encompasses almost everything I’ve learned over 20+ years. It covers jewelry, sculpture, metalwork, knifemaking and machining. Specifically, techniques used are forging, machining, drilling, milling, inlays, cold connections, sanding, filing, precision measurements, trouble shooting, blade grinding, finishing, heat treating, tempering, blade sharpening, polishing, masking, etching, nitre-bluing, multi-color anodizing, stone setting, gold leafing, word work, laser engraving, etc. Materials used, include Titanium, Damascus Steel, Timascus, Fossil Ivory, Carbon Fiber, Abalone, & Super Conductor.
The 1st several dozen photos were actually posted on my old website back in May of 2005, and which I believe was the 1st knifemaking WIP ever posted on a website. Part of this project was also published in “Blades Guide to Knife Making”, Vol. 1.
Knifemaking is still a very underground art, so I set out to create the “Ultimate Behind the Scenes Look”, in hopes that by sharing the creation of one of my pieces, it helps to elevate the overall craft. I have left NOTHING out! The results are a 400+ hour, completely hand-made Art Knife, documented by over 1100 step-by-step, sequential photos, and over 20 videos, each with a full descriptive caption. I hope you enjoy!
A few simple things I ask for in return:
1.Please, do NOT flat out copy my work. If you are influenced, that’s fine, but make it your own, and please give credit where credit is due.
2.Even if my work is not your cup of tea, please be respectful.
3.If you really get something out of this, please consider making a PayPal donation to: john@jensenknives.com
Questions and comments are certainly welcome. Enjoy, and please share this project with anyone that you think might be interested in seeing it.
Finally, don’t forget to visit my website, and various social media pages…
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From my set entitled ‘Sumac”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumac (also spelled sumach) is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice often used in juice.
Sumacs grow in subtropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, especially in North America.
Sumacs are shrubs and small trees that can reach a height of 1-10 meters. The leaves are spirally arranged; they are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5-30 cm long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form dense clusters of reddish drupes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new sprouts from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
The drupes of the genus Rhus are ground into a deep-red or purple powder used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine to add a lemony taste to salads or meat; in the Turkish cuisine e.g. added to salad-servings of kebabs and lahmacun. In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed "sumac-ade" or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by soaking the drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it. Native Americans also used the leaves and berries of the smooth and staghorn sumacs combined with tobacco in traditional smoking mixtures.
Species including the fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), the littleleaf sumac (R. microphylla), the skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), the smooth sumac and the staghorn sumac are grown for ornament, either as the wild types or as cultivars.
The leaves of certain sumacs yield tannin (mostly pyrogallol), a substance used in vegetable tanning. Leather tanned with sumac is flexible, light in weight, and light in color, even bordering on being white.
Dried sumac wood is fluorescent under long-wave UV light. Mowing of sumac is not a good control measure as the wood is springy resulting in jagged, sharp pointed stumps when mowed. The plant will quickly recover with new growth after mowing. See Nebraska Extension Service publication G97-1319 for suggestions as to control.
At times Rhus has held over 250 species. Recent molecular phylogeny research suggests breaking Rhus sensu lata into Actinocheita, Baronia, Cotinus, Malosma, Searsia, Toxicodendron, and Rhus sensu stricta. If this is done, about 35 species would remain in Rhus. However, the data is not yet clear enough to settle the proper placement of all species into these genera.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan and U.S. Border Patrol Deputy Chief Carla Provost are sworn-in as they prepare to testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs in a hearing entitled “Initial Observations of the New Leadership at the U.S. Border Patrol” in the Dirksen Senate Building in Washington, D.C., November 30, 2016. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Glenn Fawcett
Postcard photograph entitled old Gillingham (Kent), High Street, Old Brompton c.1865 looking north-east, showing range of shops on eastern side of road, including right to left, George Sutton, chemist’s shop, Edward Hammerton, draper and silk mercer’s shop, John Saxton, baker and confectioner’s shop, Thomas Woolley, stationer and newsagent’s shop, William Gilbert Telford, outfitter’s shop, Charles Burfield, grocer’s shop, two unidentified shops, Anchor & Hope Public House, showing junction with Wood Street and range of buildings beyond, nearest is The Crown Public House. Street scene shows carriageway, street lamp, hand cart and bystanders.
This Christmas bauble, entitled "Royal Star" depicting a six pointed star in blue with gold detailing, or corresponding gold with blue detailing was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead one Christmas bauble for a select group of friends every year.
"Royal Star" is going to the adult daughter of my friend who wears dangling Christmas themed earrings. My friend's daughter has an autistic son who likes vibrant colours, and it helps bring her some Christmas cheer too! Her Christmas baubles always feature images that have contrasts of colour in them. Past baubles have featured such things as a night sky with stars on one side and a daytime sky with the sun on the other, or a sailing ship sailing one way and a different ship in different livery on the other (I wish I'd photographed this last one as it was very complex and took nearly 10 hours per side).
Each bauble is 25 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the image and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the white background ones which are 8mm and the centrepiece of the star which is 15mm. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. The white, blue and black sequins all use silver pins, The gold sequins are affixed with gold pins.
Each bauble takes approximately 6 hours per side, althought as this is a fairly simple pattern working from the central pin outwards, it only took 4 hours per side. Even though this is a lesser period of time, this number of hours is why my select group of friends only get one each year!
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
Todos os clientes têm direito a um parecer ... e todos os Designers têm o dever de corrigir esse parecer
All clients are entitled to an opinion......and all designers are required to correct that opinion
From my set entitled “Pulmonaria”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonaria
In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonaria
The lungworts are the genus Pulmonaria of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae, native to Europe and western Asia, with one species (P. mollissima) east to central Asia. According to various estimates there may be between 10 and 18 Pulmonaria species found in the wild, but the taxonomy of this genus is very confusing.
The scientific name Pulmonaria is derived from Latin pulmo (the lung). In the times of sympathetic magic, the spotted oval leaves of P. officinalis were thought to symbolize diseased, ulcerated lungs, and so were used to treat pulmonary infections. The common name in many languages also refers to lungs, as in English "lungwort" and German "Lungenkraut". In some East European languages, the common name is derived from a word for honey, e.g. Russian "medunitza" and Polish "miodunka".
English colloquial names include Lungwort, Soldiers and Sailors, Spotted dog, Joseph and Mary, Jerusalem Cowslip, Bethlehem Sage.
Lungworts are perennial herbs that form clumps or rosettes. They are covered in hairs of varied length and stiffness, and sometimes also bear glands. The underground parts consist of a slowly creeping rhizome with adventitious roots. Flowering stems are unbranched, rough, covered with bristly hairs, usually not exceeding 25–30cm, with a few exceptions (P. mollis, P. vallarsae). The stems are usually upright, or slightly spreading.
The leaves are arranged in rosettes. The blades are usually large, from narrowly lanceolate to oval, with the base ranging from heart shaped to very gradually narrowing, and can have a sharply pointed or blunt tip. Leaf margin is always entire, but in some species and forms can be rather wavy. Basal leaves are carried on stalks that can be short or longer than the leave blade in various species. Stem leaves are smaller and often narrower, and are unstalked or clasping the stem. All leaves are covered with hairs that are usually bristly, or occasionally soft. The leaves are often prominently spotted in black and blue, or sometimes in pale green, or unspotted.
The inflorescence is a terminal scorpioid cyme, with bracts. Lungwort flowers are heterostylous, with two distinct forms of flower within each species; those with short stamens and long styles ("pin" flowers) and those with long stamens and short styles ("thrum" flowers), with the former usually being larger and more showy. The calyx is hairy, 5-lobed, tubular or funnel-shaped, enlarging as the fruit ripens. The corolla is funnel-shaped and consists of a long, cylindrical tube and a limb with five shallow lobes. Within the corolla throat, five tufts of hairs alternate with the stamens to form a ring. The colour of corolla varies from purple, violet or blue to shades of pink and red, or sometimes white. The colour of the flower in bud is often pink, which then changes as the flower matures. The stamens and style are included within the corolla and not protruding.
The nutlets are smooth, egg-shaped, brownish, up to 4.5 mm long and 3 mm wide, each containing a single seed. Up to four nutlets per flower are produced, ripening mostly in summer.
Pulmonaria species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora pulmonariella which feeds exclusively on P. saccharata.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan, center, and U.S. Border Patrol Deputy Chief Carla Provost, left, chat with Senator Tom Carper shortly prior to testifying before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs in a hearing entitled “Initial Observations of the New Leadership at the U.S. Border Patrol” in the Dirksen Senate Building in Washington, D.C., November 30, 2016. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Glenn Fawcett
ORIGINAL ACEO entitled, "19th CENTURY FISH PEOPLE PORTRAITS No.10" (2008) by award winning American artist/animator Dean A. Kendrick. The piece is a 2.5" x 3.5" ink marker drawing/watercolor painting on heavy weight watercolor paper that is intentionally stained with a coffee wash to give it an older, worn look as if it was found in the leaky attic of an under-kept Victorian mansion.
Who are the Fish People? Where did they come from? Are they a forgotten, de-evolutionary race that flourished in the 19th century United States?
ACEO stands for "Art Cards, Editions and Originals". These popular, collectible cards are exclusively 2.5" x 3.5" in size.
These are the pieces from my first solo show, entitled “The Ghost of the You Haunted Me..." held at Rotofugi Gallery in Chicago, IL on Sept 7, 2012.
This body of work is the culmination of many of the elements found in my custom toy work within my Forest of Sorrows narrative and I have strived to create a cohesive storyline that ties together many of the concepts and themes seen over the past couple of years.
In this story, when people pass onto the next life, those with unfinished business are taken to the Silva Dolorosa (The Forest of Sorrows) to begin a life anew, where the choices and decisions they make will determine how their lives turn out.
At the end of days as one’s life ebbs away, the Flederkanichen creatures arrive to shepherd these souls, manifested as a seed, and carry them to the Silva Dolorosa. Upon arriving, they drop the soul seeds down into the depths of the forest where the Saplings catch them, plant them in their heads waiting for them to bloom again, at which point they will plant them on the forest floor in the perfect place, so that the souls can begin their new lives.
On one particular day, with one particular soul seed dropped by the Flederkanichen, a big gust of wind blew the seed out of the hand of the Sapling assigned to it and it hit the ground, breaking the cardinal rule of the forest. It was at this moment that Locket, the geist girl was reborn in this limbo, confused and bewildered as to where she was. Frightened, she runs deep into the forest to discover who she was in her previous life, and what she was to become in the next.
Concurrently, at the moment at which Locket was born, the last guardian of the forest, the Hollow Knight, was awakened from deep slumber, tasked with ensuring the sanctity of the Silva and all of its denizens. He sets off on a quest to find Locket, only to encounter yet another new visitor to the forest - the ferocious and monstrous Blackwülf, who seems to be racing the Hollow Knight in a quest to reach Locket first.
This is the story of death, understanding, rebirth and redemption. I hope that the pieces I have created for this show will help to give an insight into this story that I have been telling.
Photos taken by Kirby Kerr.
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