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Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng, South Africa. Dec/2012. O Berço da Humanidade. África do Sul. Dez/2012
1 - Bosquet de l'Arc de Triomphe
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RIDDLES (Sphinx Otto Protecting Earth from Humankind) (2017)
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Marguerite Humeau est née en 1986 à Cholet, France, vit et travaille à Londres, Royaume-Uni.
Le Bosquet de l'Arc de Triomphe est le premier du parcours du Voyage d'Hiver, qui s'ouvre avec l'installation de Marguerite Humeau titrée Riddles (Sphinx Otto Protecting Earth from Humankind). Le Sphinx fut la première sculpture installée dans le jardin par Louis XIV, comme pour indiquer une mise en garde; l'omniprésence de l'énigme du vivant en ces lieux. Métaphore des dispositifs sécuritaires contemporains, le Sphinx Otto protège la planète des dangers et menaces provoqués par les humains. Le visiteur parcourt un labyrinthe végétal aux couleurs sanguines et à la chair empoisonnée pour faire face à une énigme totale et silencieuse, celle de notre humanité et de ses cyvles, de la condition de nos existences, de l’équilibre fragile de notre rapport au monde
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Painted during an 1873 visit to the village of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the smaller figure here appears to eye the dead shark ahead, while his older companion looks back, while his older companion looks back, seemingly at the sailboat behind them. Such details subtly allude to threats the youth of this fishing village might someday face at sea.
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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.
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Yesterday's communal violence in Andhra Pradesh and Caste Violence in Patna were the testimony of T.S. Eliot's saying. The so called 'backward class movements' in Tamil Nadu had a narrow social base, and was led by an elite Since the 1990s, India has witnessed a spurt in violence against dalits. This physical violence is perpetrated largely by ' ( .
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justice. However, the Dravidian movement'5 empowerment agenda left the dalits -nineteen percent of the population-almost .
heing murdered for contesting local body elections. More than being a consequence of the accumulation of power in the hands untouched. In fact, dalits have been subjected to the worst forms of violence, from being forced to consume human excreta to .
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of the intermediary castes, such violence would be better understood as an attempt by the 'backward' caste Hindus to test their .
authority in Indian society. Since the parliamentary form of democracy introduced in post-independence India .favored the new found authority on those below them. .
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priestly class. It was only subsequently that economic, administrative and political power devolved to rhe Backward Castes. .
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The Vanniyar Sangam was constituted in 1980 and evolved into the Paauali Mak':al Katchi (PMK) under the districts of TamU Nadu. In 1987, they staged a weeklong roadblock to demand 20 percent reservation for Vanniyars. During this struggle they torched more than a thousand dalit homes. The agitation and its success led to the subsequent political leadership of S. Ramadoss, a medical doctor. Today, the PMK wields tremendous influence in the Vanniar belt-the northem .
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consolidation of the Vanniyars". Just two days after the nation celebrated the 129th birth annivc!rsary of Ma~ata Gandhi, caste-related violence rocked the .
villages and·towns on either side of the national highway that links this economically backward district with the city of .
Madurai. Eleven persons were killed and several were injured in the violence and the police action that followed. Six of the .
dead were dalits; the five others belonged to the thevar communi:y, a Most Backward Class group. All the victims were from The immediate causP of the violence was provided by a district-level rally at Ramanathapurarn, organized by the .
Thevarkula Kottamaippu (Thevar Federation). According to a senior politician from a neighboring district, the Koottamaippu is among the economically weaker sections. Scores of houses were torched and hundreds of people rendered homeless. Thevar Peravai". The Thevar Peravai is said to have been behind the many instances of violence involving thevars and dalits .
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"Go back far enough and all humankind are cousins..." Naomi Mitchison - Scottish Writer and Poet (1897 - 1999) - image taken in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Humankind often grows by what is called "slash and burn" which can include moving on or expanding to new territory.
Here in Washington State, our population and economy is outgrowing Sea-Tac Airport. Rather than changing our ways, a second airport may be needed. Other areas, near Seattle, resist the development so in the spirit of moving on, Yakima steps forward.
Yakima is a long ways out, but there was news, a while back, that Yakima would welcome the new airport.
I got to thinking that Cle Elum might be a good place for the airport. No place near Seattle metro would likely welcome it. Yakima is still farther, but Cle Elum or Ellensburg area might be the best bet. There is more open space, starting around Cle Elum east of the Cascade Mountains.
Some folks actually commute to work in Seattle area from Cle Elum area, so I hear. In many cases preparing for a life of retirement east of the mountains with only a few years left to work. It's a long commute, but those kind of commutes are normalized; as in the phrase, "only in America."
Changing our ways would mean, I guess, not needing another airport. There could be other alternatives like slowing down the rat race, Relying more on rail transportation or even less travel and more cyber travel online.
A friend on Facebook suggests.
No new Airport anywhere. Let's develop solar powered airships that don't need miles of runways and the corresponding destruction of green spaces by the roads service them in the slabs at the Jets need to land on and take off from.
Last Day in S.A. - Cradle of Humankind in Maropeng, South Africa. Pictures from the Cradle of Humankind "Museum"
Last Day in S.A. - Cradle of Humankind in Maropeng, South Africa. Pictures from the Cradle of Humankind "Museum"
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 22 - Drew Gagner and Martha McCoy attend Humankindness Gala on May 22nd 2024 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Schrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
The Japanese New Years bell ringing (Joya no Kane).
The 2100-lb., sixteenth-century Japanese bronze bell is originally from a temple in Tajima Province in Japan. It will be struck 108 times with a large custom-hewn log. According to Japanese custom, this symbolically welcomes the New Year and curbs the 108 bonno (mortal desires) which, according to Buddhist belief, torment humankind.
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Marcy Winograd, Congressional Candidate (CA-36), speaking at
Santa Monica rally before biking with several others down to the
Manhattan Beach Pier. Winograd called on the environmental,
peace, and labor movements to calculate the carbon footprint of
perpetual wars and occupations, then join hands in calling for a Green
New Deal, directing America's resources to putting people back
to work developing Green technology.
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Marcy Winograd (Congressional Candidate (CA-36) with
environmentalists at Santa Monica's Crescent Bay Park. Winograd
and supporters called for repeal of unfair trade agreements that
harm the environment by encouraging deforestation.
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Before biking from Santa Monica to the Manhattan Beach Pier,
Marcy Winograd (Congressional Candidate (CA-36) expressed
hope the United States would support new stricter standards
for carbon emissions at the climate conference in Copenhagen,
as well as sign on to international treaties -- the Law of the Sea,
The Moon Treaty, The Outer Space Treaty - that declare the resources
of sea and space belong, not to corporations, but to all humankind.
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