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Last Day in S.A. - Cradle of Humankind in Maropeng, South Africa. Pictures from the Cradle of Humankind "Museum"
INOCULATION ETERNITY is a story about a place called Eternity. It is my imagination about what life might have been like before humankind ever existed. We all have this hope that when we die we go to a perfect place called Heaven. In this book I paint a picture of a similar place where there is no time, sickness or war. Its essence beholds perfection and pure happiness. The entire story evolves around the life of Archangel Lucifer, who is the Master of Ceremony for the Gathering.
The Gathering could be likened to a church service, but far greater. Its purpose is to recharge everyone's spirit in what I reference in the book as life's resurgence. Everything was perfect until something happens at the latest Gathering service. This something has to do with Lucifer. It begins a wind of change that rocks the core of Eternity and everyone's existence. You will witness how Lucifer's unleashed emotions assimilate negative potential. As the story progresses, readers will witness how many of Eternity's inhabitants who are witnessing the changes, become determined to understand what is happening. Amongst them evolves a certain sect of creatures who begin to enjoy their newfound knowledge. Different sensations are experienced as new emotions surface, which were hidden from them since the beginning of their existence.
Gabriel, who is another principal character is one determined to understand what is happening. Prior to these dysphonic eruptions everything was all good. Now another realm appears on the horizon. His concern for Lucifer and scientific interests beckon him to go in search of a remedy.
Ancient of Days' is my version of God. He is the center of all moral consciousness and the animator for life. He doesn't even attempt to explain what is happening or what has caused the eruption in the first place. Some begin to wonder why. His expression of love for His creation is to stand back and allow them the freedom to choose their own destiny. It is His desire that they trust Him. He encourages them to govern themselves. He lends them support and intervenes only when it is absolutely necessary. With an infinite space ahead of them, He is in no hurry to stop what appears to be a disaster.
Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng, South Africa. Dec/2012. O Berço da Humanidade. África do Sul. Dez/2012
Last Day in S.A. - Cradle of Humankind in Maropeng, South Africa. Pictures from the Cradle of Humankind "Museum"
INOCULATION ETERNITY is a story about a place called Eternity. It is my imagination about what life might have been like before humankind ever existed. We all have this hope that when we die we go to a perfect place called Heaven. In this book I paint a picture of a similar place where there is no time, sickness or war. Its essence beholds perfection and pure happiness. The entire story evolves around the life of Archangel Lucifer, who is the Master of Ceremony for the Gathering.
The Gathering could be likened to a church service, but far greater. Its purpose is to recharge everyone's spirit in what I reference in the book as life's resurgence. Everything was perfect until something happens at the latest Gathering service. This something has to do with Lucifer. It begins a wind of change that rocks the core of Eternity and everyone's existence. You will witness how Lucifer's unleashed emotions assimilate negative potential. As the story progresses, readers will witness how many of Eternity's inhabitants who are witnessing the changes, become determined to understand what is happening. Amongst them evolves a certain sect of creatures who begin to enjoy their newfound knowledge. Different sensations are experienced as new emotions surface, which were hidden from them since the beginning of their existence.
Gabriel, who is another principal character is one determined to understand what is happening. Prior to these dysphonic eruptions everything was all good. Now another realm appears on the horizon. His concern for Lucifer and scientific interests beckon him to go in search of a remedy.
Ancient of Days' is my version of God. He is the center of all moral consciousness and the animator for life. He doesn't even attempt to explain what is happening or what has caused the eruption in the first place. Some begin to wonder why. His expression of love for His creation is to stand back and allow them the freedom to choose their own destiny. It is His desire that they trust Him. He encourages them to govern themselves. He lends them support and intervenes only when it is absolutely necessary. With an infinite space ahead of them, He is in no hurry to stop what appears to be a disaster.
Muslims love and respect Jesus. They consider him one of the greatest of God's prophets and messengers to humankind. A Muslim never refers to him simply as "Jesus," but always adds the phrase "may the peace and blessing of God be upon him." The Qur'an confirms his virgin birth, and a special chapter of the Qur'an is entitled "Mary." The Qur'an describes the Annunciation as follows:
"The Angels said, 'O Mary! God has chosen you, and purified you, and chosen you above all the women of all nations…'
'O Mary, God gives you good news of a word from Him, whose name is the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, honored in this world and in the Hereafter, and one of those brought near to God. He shall speak to the people in infancy and in old age, and shall be of the righteous.'
She said: ' O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me?' He said: 'Even so; God creates what he wills. When He decrees a thing, he says to it, "Be!" and it is."' (Qur'an 3:42, 45-7)
Just as God created Adam without a mother or a father, He caused Jesus to be conceived without a father:
"Truly the example of Jesus in relation to God is as the example of Adam. He created him from dust and then said to him, "Be!" and he was." (Qur'an 3:59)
During his prophetic mission, Jesus performed many miracles. The Qur'an tells us that he said: "I have come to you with a sign from your Lord: I make for you out of clay, as it were, a figure of a bird, and breathe into it and it becomes a bird by God's leave. And I heal the blind, and the lepers, and I raise the dead by God's leave." (Qur'an 3:49)
Jesus, like Muhammad, came to confirm and renew the basic doctrine of the belief in One God brought by earlier prophets. In the Qur'an, Jesus is reported as saying that he came: "To attest the Torah that was before me. And to make lawful to you part of what was forbidden to you; I have come to you with a sign from your Lord; so be conscious of God and obey me." (Qur'an 3:50)
The Prophet Muhammad said: "Whoever believes that there is no deity except God, alone without partner, that Muhammad is his messenger, that Jesus is the servant and messenger of God; His word which he bestowed on Mary and a spirit proceeding from Him, and that Paradise and Hell are true, shall be received by God into Heaven."
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Brush and watercolour, black chalk on heavy white wove paper
Here, Homer studied details he would include in The Gulf Stream. By placing brightly coloured stalks of sugarcane at the centre of his composition and writing that 'the subject of this picture is comprised in its title', Homer may be referring obliquely to the institution of slavery. Sugar was a central commodity in the triangular trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas. The Gulf Stream current played an essential role in both transporting it and in the trafficking of enslaved people.
[National Gallery]
Taken in the Exhibition
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature
(September 2022 – January 2023)
[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.
Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.
From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.
After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.
Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.
With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.
[National Gallery]
Last Day in S.A. - Cradle of Humankind in Maropeng, South Africa. Pictures from the Cradle of Humankind "Museum"
Oil on canvas
The title refers to bells rung on board ship to mark the end of each four-hour watch. Here, two sailors use astronomical instruments to record the vessel's location following a storm, their oilskins glinting as the sun breaks through the clouds. Homer expressed interest in writings by oceanographer Matthew Maury (1806-1873), who connected scientific measurement with divine order. Through this lens, the depiction of the sailors' everyday work becomes a meditation on the human struggle to comprehend nature.
[National Gallery]
Taken in the Exhibition
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature
(September 2022 – January 2023)
[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.
Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.
From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.
After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.
Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.
With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.
[National Gallery]
Humankind in all its complexity and type is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Marlene Dumas. A recurring theme is the subjectivity of categorization: beautiful and ugly, perfect versus imperfect, acceptable as opposed to shameful. Her expressive, smudgy style is anything but neatly or finely rendered, and yet within it lies an extraordinary beauty. This resonates in her approach to the people she portrays.
The series of paintings and drawings she made in 1990-91 of patients AND staff at "Het Hooghuys psychiatric institute" is a striking example of this.
INOCULATION ETERNITY is a story about a place called Eternity. It is my imagination about what life might have been like before humankind ever existed. We all have this hope that when we die we go to a perfect place called Heaven. In this book I paint a picture of a similar place where there is no time, sickness or war. Its essence beholds perfection and pure happiness. The entire story evolves around the life of Archangel Lucifer, who is the Master of Ceremony for the Gathering.
The Gathering could be likened to a church service, but far greater. Its purpose is to recharge everyone's spirit in what I reference in the book as life's resurgence. Everything was perfect until something happens at the latest Gathering service. This something has to do with Lucifer. It begins a wind of change that rocks the core of Eternity and everyone's existence. You will witness how Lucifer's unleashed emotions assimilate negative potential. As the story progresses, readers will witness how many of Eternity's inhabitants who are witnessing the changes, become determined to understand what is happening. Amongst them evolves a certain sect of creatures who begin to enjoy their newfound knowledge. Different sensations are experienced as new emotions surface, which were hidden from them since the beginning of their existence.
Gabriel, who is another principal character is one determined to understand what is happening. Prior to these dysphonic eruptions everything was all good. Now another realm appears on the horizon. His concern for Lucifer and scientific interests beckon him to go in search of a remedy.
Ancient of Days' is my version of God. He is the center of all moral consciousness and the animator for life. He doesn't even attempt to explain what is happening or what has caused the eruption in the first place. Some begin to wonder why. His expression of love for His creation is to stand back and allow them the freedom to choose their own destiny. It is His desire that they trust Him. He encourages them to govern themselves. He lends them support and intervenes only when it is absolutely necessary. With an infinite space ahead of them, He is in no hurry to stop what appears to be a disaster.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 22 - Jeffrey Buckmaster and Ketty White attend Humankindness Gala on May 22nd 2024 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Schrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
Look at the rainbow. Nature has filled the Earth with beauty. Perhaps humankind should have appreciated the beauty that Nature provided rather than create a consumer economy which perpetuates itself by destroying and polluting the planet.
Can you live without oil? It really doesn't matter in the least even if you cannot. You are going to lose oil anyway. Oil is a finite resource subject to depletion. Peak Oil has occurred. If you need oil to survive you are really out of luck.
Can you live without plastic? I know, I know ... life without plastic is impossible. Who cares that floating plastic trash is polluting lakes, rivers, wetlands and the ocean? Americans need their plastic!
Humankind has treated the Earth like a worthless planet. Humankind will discover in the years ahead that living on an unhealthy inhospitable planet is quite a bit more impossible than living without plastic, oil, SUVs, consumerism, capitalism and the American Way of Life.
Protecting the environment is a life or death matter for humankind. Extinction happens. Humankind has gambled with the entire planet and it is humankind which will end up the ultimate loser in the bet. You cannot destroy your only home without suffering consequences.
Helping the breeze lift the bride's veil... [ Calke Abbey, NT ]
[ idea borrowed from the sound stage/dream sequence in 'Singin' in the Rain' - ? ]
The 8th annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) was held July 29 to August 1, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. The ISSRDC conference—held in coordination with the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory, the American Astronautical Society, and NASA—was created to connect U.S. government agencies, commercial enterprises, and academic communities in order to foster new innovations, breakthroughs, and discoveries onboard humankind’s unique orbiting laboratory.