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Apple. (Depicting gravity, since it was the thing that caused Isaac Newton to discover this force.)
The once insignificant caused enormous changes, and a change further alters and limits the past, but the future withholds everything. Stagnancy doesn’t cause the future and yet the insignificance is changed. Inspired by Physics: Newton, The Da Vinci Code, and the following poem.
Unconscious of the world beyond him
The undiscovered became a mist
Became clouds painted in a pale canvass
Why, rainbow of brilliance after the rain?
Trees hanged with sumptuous delight
Beyond complexities and arithmetic
A stick holds a thousand folds
Why enormity can be less, and insignificant?
Counting the rays of light
Its transparency is bold
Yet the angle of it became a rainbow
Why a line was bent beyond its dullness?
He stood by the wonders, the unknown
With doom in his mind, he thinks
Placing himself in the middle
In the endless oblivion of the Universe
As stars are forever so as he thinks
He resists limits; he wanders in the blank spaces
Seeking the answers between the stars
Why now that he thinks, why him, why the stars?
And it fell over him
The inkling became the next line
The stars too fell with a force undeniable
Why things fall like stars that cleave the Moon?
Why?
Why then his thoughts kept on minding?
He seek them, but further and farther he goes
Why he fortune the pleasures of answering?
The future withholds the past
Like a drop of apple answers all
And not the drop of the stars
Neither the bent of white light can sought
It is now; the past is just a fall of stars
And a minute spec of weight is less
A thousand folds of it cannot total the future
Neither the apple on a tree answers your grief.
-Apple, written by my best friend/uncle/classmate/fellow poet RC Vagilidad.
A desperate action from the clergy of Lyon. Pathetic gesture, insignificant and of course, ultimately, useless. But salute the courage of this pastor who came face to hungry zombies, only with the words of peace.
Zombies day, in Lyon (France) - October 26, 2008.
Une démarche désespérée de la part du clergé lyonnais. Geste pitoyable, insignifiant et bien sûr, au final, inutile. Mais saluons le courage de cet ecclésiastique qui est venu, face aux zombies affamés, avec des paroles de paix.
Photo prise pendant la marche des zombies, de la place St Jean à la place du Change, le dimanche 26 octobre 2008, à Lyon (France).
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Just a small ammonite fossil that came as part of a collection. It's really nothing special, but it is a nice specimen. I have no idea when/where it's from.
It has been there, in making of my memories. How insignificantly has it occupied so much space in memories.
So real, so important, yet made so insignificant. Is it because I took you for granted?
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Since 2009, Daniel Kerkhoff, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., has been creating his own artist-in-residencies in communities in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam.
Embedding himself in a community, he develops multiple connections through creating art (installations), writing poetic journals, making art with children, curating exhibitions, working with artists, assisting art libraries and community libraries, documenting walks and the community, and just being a part of everyday life.
Along with painting, collage, art installations, photography, and writing, his art practice involves connecting, sharing, and weaving people and places.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Assisting and creating libraries is part of my art practice.
During my art residencies, I continue to bring books and materials, art work, maps, magazines and journals, CDs, DVDs, and photos to the community centers in Adugyama, Ashanti Region Ghana and Sisid-anejo, Cañar, Ecuador. I also give a variety of art books, journals, and materials to fellow artists and art spaces.
In Accra, Ghana, I bring art books and magazines to The Nubuke Foundation and The Center for Contemporary Art, Ghana. In Cuenca, Ecuador, I'm connected to In-Arte Contemporáneo and bring art magazines and information. In Hanoi, I have provided various art publications and books to Cuci Fine Art, Chay Art, and Chaap Collective.
I bring art publications, art work, and music created by friends and colleagues of mine. I document their work in these different communities, creating another form of connection and awareness.
I consider this a weaving project, a form of sharing that can have many on-going effects. –Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“Playing Catch, Giving and Receiving”
You are invited to play catch with my prints. Two dimensional prints that hang on the wall are transformed into three dimensional balls, a form of sculpture that is also performance and participatory.
Playing catch is a common past time that's relaxing and connecting. It is an act of giving (throwing) and receiving (catching) involving a ball, and, in this case, prints transformed into a ball (sculpture).
Instead of viewing the stationary print on a wall or a sculpture on the floor, it is viewed moving through time and space, dependent on the participants and their actions.
It is visual, transformative, therapeutic, sharing, interactive, and connecting, simple and playful actions of giving and receiving.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”
“Walking the Path, Prints on Prints”
You are invited to walk on my prints, using them as a path.
It’s another way of experiencing art like a stepping stone meditation,
a different awareness may take place on an intentional walk, slower,
deliberate, a winding pathway, your prints touching these prints.
You become, in a way, the performer, the participant, the collaborator,
your soles connecting and becoming a part of these prints, adding steps,
humbling, engaging, liberating, creating another connection.
The title of this series is: "Paper Trail, A4 (All Over the Place)" from "The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)". These prints are collages made from my daily life in Hanoi -- collections of receipts, maps, brochures, business cards, food wrappers and waste.
They are my journal, a record of my consumption and daily activities, stamped with symbols that reflect my connection with Hanoi. They are painted over,
fragments remain revealed, information becomes cloudy, is lost and buried, like memory and history.
I created these collages during my artist-in-residency in Hanoi from
February 6, 2015 to October 26, 2015.
Walking is an important part of my art residencies. I document a familiar route in the community I’m living in by walking slowly, taking photos, and picking up “treasures”.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
Insignificant Victory
What is the use of material happiness,distress or fearfulness? What will you gain by considering in terms of "I" and "mine" ? what is the use of an insignificant victory or defeat, anger, envy or haterd towards other living entities.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura
When you're out in the outback, you're really quite 'insignificant...
'TAMBO - AUGATHELLA' (DJI Phantom4)
The icebergs in the southern seas are enormous. This was actually one of the smaller fragments drifting around.
YIP... That is a Zodiac with 10 people on visible in the lower right next to the iceberg...
It is generally difficult to capture these wonders and get a proper sense of scale.
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Shot details:
Software : Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta
Camera Model : Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Shooting Mode : Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) : 1/320
Av( Aperture Value ) : 11.0
Metering Mode : Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation : -1/3 (LR Adjusted)
ISO Speed : 200
Lens : EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Focal Length : 92.0 mm
AF Mode : One-Shot AF
Drive Mode : Single shooting
An ancient roman ring that also functions as a key. A roman citizen would have worn this ring backwards in their hands, and then flipped it back around when necessary to open a locked door.
It started out insignificantly enough, as horrific events in life sometimes do. In January, I developed an intermittent pain in my left side below the ribcage. I work on the computer all day (and night sometimes), and since it would come and go, I didn't pay too much attention to it. At 58 years old and despite proper diet and regular exercise, I had begun to get used to small aches and pains that I assumed just came with getting old…
…in June I developed terrible constipation for 10 days. After four months of doctors visits, test, uncomfortable procedures, and false diagnosis, the final shocking result was pancreatic cancer. That is not the kinda news you wanna get over the phone at eight in the morning, before you've had your coffee.
I don't drink, had no genetic history of the disease, and had been feeling fine up until the pain. Sure, I do smoke, but I can't believe that that alone is the reason for me to contract this Freddy Krueger of all cancers. I guess it's jut "bad luck", as one doctor told me.
Whatever the reason, the fact of the matter is, I'm in for the fight of my life. This fight is not so much about surviving the disease, because I only have but so much control over that. My fight has to do with letting go of all negative baggage, and packing as much love, joy, fun and creativity into each and every day I have left…and start taking photographs again:)
Copyright © Nicholas Saunders 1970. In order to trace illicit reproduction of material I have included insignificant errors throughout.
Tan humanos...
El hombre es el único animal que necesita escribir su historia para poder recordarla. Cuando nace no sabe absolutamente nada. Moriría si no aprendiera a vivir. La raza humana es la única en la naturaleza que no transmite ninguna información innata que vaya más allá de lo puramente genético. carece de auténticos instintos. No durará mucho.
Porque ¿quién escribe la historia? Nunca los vencidos, los despojados, los sometidos. Por eso, por ejemplo, las guerras -cuando acaban, y pasa el tiempo- dejan en la memoria colectiva un poso en el que se adivina el inconfundible y dulce sabor de la victoria: esfuerzo con recompensa, sufrimiento con premio, dolor que termina, que se olvida.
¡Qué distinta hubiera sido la historia de la humanidad si solo se hubiera escuchado a los perdedores!
Tampoco escribimos la historia los ignorados, los que no existimos, los que no tenemos voz, los que, en definitiva no contamos.
Sé que el mundo se partió y sé que ahora ya no hay un mundo, sino dos, y sé que mi cuerpo se repartió entre ellos. -R.I-
The beetroot is the taproot portion of a beet plant, usually known in North America as the beet, and also known as the table beet, garden beet, sugar beet, red beet, or golden beet. It is one of several cultivated varieties of Beta vulgaris grown for their edible taproots and leaves (called beet greens); they have been classified as B. vulgaris subsp. vulgaris 'Conditiva' Group.
Besides being used as a food, beets have uses as a food colouring and as a medicinal plant. Many beet products are made from other Beta vulgaris varieties, particularly sugar beet.
ETYMOLOGY
Beta is the ancient Latin name for beets, possibly of Celtic origin, becoming bete in Old English around 1400. Root derives from the late Old English rōt, itself from Old Norse rót.
HISTORY
From the Middle Ages, beetroot was used as a treatment for a variety of conditions, especially illnesses relating to digestion and the blood. Bartolomeo Platina recommended taking beetroot with garlic to nullify the effects of "garlic-breath".
During the middle of the 19th century, wine often was coloured with beetroot juice.
FOOD
Usually the deep purple roots of beetroot are eaten boiled, roasted, or raw, and either alone or combined with any salad vegetable. A large proportion of the commercial production is processed into boiled and sterilized beets or into pickles. In Eastern Europe, beet soup, such as borscht, is a popular dish. In Indian cuisine, chopped, cooked, spiced beet is a common side dish. Yellow-coloured beetroots are grown on a very small scale for home consumption. The green, leafy portion of the beet is also edible. The young leaves can be added raw to salads, whilst the mature leaves are most commonly served boiled or steamed, in which case they have a taste and texture similar to spinach. Those greens selected should be from bulbs that are unmarked, instead of those with overly limp leaves or wrinkled skins, both of which are signs of dehydration.The domestication of beets can be traced to the emergence of an allele which enables biennial harvesting of leaves and taproot.
Beetroot can be boiled or steamed, peeled, and then eaten warm with or without butter as a delicacy; cooked, pickled, and then eaten cold as a condiment; or peeled, shredded raw, and then eaten as a salad. Pickled beets are a traditional food in many countries.
A traditional Pennsylvania Dutch dish is pickled beet egg. Hard-boiled eggs are refrigerated in the liquid left over from pickling beets and allowed to marinate until the eggs turn a deep pink-red colour.
In Poland and Ukraine, beet is combined with horseradish to form popular ćwikła or бурачки (burachky), which is traditionally used with cold cuts and sandwiches, but often also added to a meal consisting of meat and potatoes. Similarly in Serbia where the popular cvekla is used as winter salad, seasoned with salt and vinegar, with meat dishes. As an addition to horseradish, it is also used to produce the "red" variety of chrain, a popular condiment in Ashkenazi Jewish, Hungarian, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, and Ukrainian cuisine.
Popular in Australian hamburgers, a slice of pickled beetroot is combined with other condiments on a beef patty to make an Aussie burger.
In Northern Germany, beetroot is mashed with Labskaus or added as its side order.
When beet juice is used, it is most stable in foods with a low water content, such as frozen novelties and fruit fillings. Betanins, obtained from the roots, are used industrially as red food colourants, e.g. to intensify the colour of tomato paste, sauces, desserts, jams and jellies, ice cream, sweets, and breakfast cereals.
Beetroot can also be used to make wine.
A moderate amount of chopped beetroot is sometimes added to the Japanese pickle fukujinzuke for color.
Food shortages in Europe following World War I caused great hardships, including cases of mangelwurzel disease, as relief workers called it. It was symptomatic of eating only beets.
NUTRITION
Raw beetroot is 88% water, 10% carbohydrates, 2% protein, and less than 1% fat (see table). In a 100-gram amount providing 43 calories, raw beetroot is a rich source (27% of the Daily Value - DV) of folate and a moderate source (16% DV) of manganese, with other nutrients having insignificant content (table).
PRELIMINARY RESEARCH
In preliminary research, beetroot juice reduced blood pressure in hypertensive people. Tentative evidence has found that dietary nitrate supplementation, such as from beets and other vegetables, results in a small improvement in endurance exercise performance.
OTHER USES
Betanin, obtained from the roots, is used industrially as red food colorant, to improve the color and flavor of tomato paste, sauces, desserts, jams and jellies, ice cream, candy, and breakfast cereals, among other applications.
The chemical adipic acid rarely occurs in nature, but happens to occur naturally in beetroot.
SAFETY
The red colour compound betanin is not broken down in the body, and in higher concentrations may temporarily cause urine or stools to assume a reddish colour, in the case of urine a condition called beeturia. Although harmless, this effect may cause initial concern due to the visual similarity to what appears to be blood in the stool, hematochezia (blood passing through the anus, usually in or with stool) or hematuria (blood in the urine).
Nitrosamine formation in beet juice can reliably be prevented by adding ascorbic acid.
WIKIPEDIA
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Since 2009, Daniel Kerkhoff, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., has been creating his own artist-in-residencies in communities in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam.
Embedding himself in a community, he develops multiple connections through creating art (installations), writing poetic journals, making art with children, curating exhibitions, working with artists, assisting art libraries and community libraries, documenting walks and the community, and just being a part of everyday life.
Along with painting, collage, art installations, photography, and writing, his art practice involves connecting, sharing, and weaving people and places.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Assisting and creating libraries is part of my art practice.
During my art residencies, I continue to bring books and materials, art work, maps, magazines and journals, CDs, DVDs, and photos to the community centers in Adugyama, Ashanti Region Ghana and Sisid-anejo, Cañar, Ecuador. I also give a variety of art books, journals, and materials to fellow artists and art spaces.
In Accra, Ghana, I bring art books and magazines to The Nubuke Foundation and The Center for Contemporary Art, Ghana. In Cuenca, Ecuador, I'm connected to In-Arte Contemporáneo and bring art magazines and information. In Hanoi, I have provided various art publications and books to Cuci Fine Art, Chay Art, and Chaap Collective.
I bring art publications, art work, and music created by friends and colleagues of mine. I document their work in these different communities, creating another form of connection and awareness.
I consider this a weaving project, a form of sharing that can have many on-going effects. –Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“Playing Catch, Giving and Receiving”
You are invited to play catch with my prints. Two dimensional prints that hang on the wall are transformed into three dimensional balls, a form of sculpture that is also performance and participatory.
Playing catch is a common past time that's relaxing and connecting. It is an act of giving (throwing) and receiving (catching) involving a ball, and, in this case, prints transformed into a ball (sculpture).
Instead of viewing the stationary print on a wall or a sculpture on the floor, it is viewed moving through time and space, dependent on the participants and their actions.
It is visual, transformative, therapeutic, sharing, interactive, and connecting, simple and playful actions of giving and receiving.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”
“Walking the Path, Prints on Prints”
You are invited to walk on my prints, using them as a path.
It’s another way of experiencing art like a stepping stone meditation,
a different awareness may take place on an intentional walk, slower,
deliberate, a winding pathway, your prints touching these prints.
You become, in a way, the performer, the participant, the collaborator,
your soles connecting and becoming a part of these prints, adding steps,
humbling, engaging, liberating, creating another connection.
The title of this series is: "Paper Trail, A4 (All Over the Place)" from "The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)". These prints are collages made from my daily life in Hanoi -- collections of receipts, maps, brochures, business cards, food wrappers and waste.
They are my journal, a record of my consumption and daily activities, stamped with symbols that reflect my connection with Hanoi. They are painted over,
fragments remain revealed, information becomes cloudy, is lost and buried, like memory and history.
I created these collages during my artist-in-residency in Hanoi from
February 6, 2015 to October 26, 2015.
Walking is an important part of my art residencies. I document a familiar route in the community I’m living in by walking slowly, taking photos, and picking up “treasures”.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
A poem by Lynn Kozma
Insignificant
as a beached shell
I feel
the indifferent succession
of days
monotonous as ocean waves.
Bleaching with age
I have lost the rage
at my own
unavoidable demise.
But the mind still conjures
eclectic shapes,
the life of things
not seen.
Words dance across the screen
in perfect conjugation-
messengers of a kind.
Death, I know your winter face.
We have met in random places-
legendary landscapes,
halls of sorrow;
I shall wear RED
tomorrow !
This insignificant headland is one of the most famous pieces of real estate on the planet. Who has not heard of the Cape of Good Hope? If you think that it's the southern-most tip of Africa, you are wrong by quite a long way. Cape Agulhas,150 km ESE has that distinction. But the Cape of Good Hope has a claim to a superlative - it's the south-westernmost tip of the continent. According to my GPS, it is located at S34°21′29″, E018°28′19″.
Although Bartolomeu Diaz rounded the cape in 1488, he and his sailors were not the first people to see it. Herodotus tells the tale of the 3-year saga of unknown and un-named Phoenecian sailors who circumnavigated Africa some 2600 years ago. About 2000 years ago, the Khoikhoi arrived here overland.
Diaz named this the Cabo das Tormentas, the "Cape of Storms". King John II of Portugal renamed it Cabo da Boa Esperança, the "Cape of Good Hope", because he thought that its discovery signalled great riches by opening a route to the east.
26 by 26 Challenge #14:
Photograph something you consider insignificant.
– Riitta Ikonen & Karoline Hjorth
Taking this rather literally, if you have signs, but they are not clear, or they are contradicted by more signs, they become insignificant
Translation of the blue signs (and any driver won't have time to read them all) , the bus company excepted, except loading and unloading and the last one tells you that you can go there to park at the Peugeot dealer
Oglers at the Olgas. Still one of the most truly awesome hikes I've done. Excepting the heat, a fairly easy hike, but just like nothing you've ever seen before. Will be back.
At Samruddhi, we pay attention to the seemingly insignificant details, which actually enhances the quality of home. Compared to an average villa, the doors here are bigger, shutters are thicker, internal height is higher and the rooms are more spacious. Lush green outfield, fresh air, modern facilities and serenity makes Lake Drive villas stand out among all the other properties located in Bangalore. Well furnished bedrooms with laminated wooden and vitrified tiles, superior marble and ceramic tiles flooring throughout the villa, huge balcony, wide glass windows, lush green surrounding and to add perfection to the whole property is the lake view.
The amenities offered by the Samruddhi Group are all top notch. Their club house offers facilities like: Swimming Pool, Gym, Lawn Tennis Court, Jogging Track, Temple, Amphitheatre, Children Play Area and more. For indoor games lover provision for Billiards, Chess, Carom, Table Tennis, etc. have also been done in full fashion. With other features like: Designer Street Lights, ample water and electricity supply, solar water heater facility in each villa, rain water harvesting pits, CCTV surveillance, intercom for visitors, proper sewage disposal, supermarket, ATM clinic pharmacy and more will surely make your life at Lake Drive more pleasurable than ever.
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grape 'Madeleine Angevine'
Family
Vitaceae
Genus
Vitis are vigorous deciduous climbing shrubs with tendrils and attractively lobed leaves, insignificant green flowers followed by often edible fruits; some have excellent autumn foliage colour
Details
'Madeleine Angevine' is a white wine and dessert grape particularly suited to cooler areas owing to its relatively late flowering and early ripening. This reliable, heavy cropper produces sweet, citrus-flavoured grapes
Source RHS
SISSINGHURST CASTLE
The poet's garden inspired by the land
Vita Sackville-West, the poet and writer, began the transforming of Sissinghurst Castle in the 1930s with her diplomat and author husband, Harold Nicolson. Harold's architectural planning of the garden rooms, and the colourful, abundant planting in the gardens by Vita, reflect the romance and intimacy of her poems and writings.
Sissinghurst Castle was the backdrop for a diverse history; from the astonishing time as a prison in the 1700s, to being a home to the women’s land army. It was also a family home to some fascinating people who lived here or came to stay. Today you can take in the ruined architecture of the extensive original buildings, vast panoramic views from the top of the Tower, the current working farm and the 450-acre wider estate along with Vita and Harold's gardens.
Ginkgo biloba (prehistoric tree) Photo: F.D.Richards, SE Michigan, 3/2021 - Ginkgo Maidenhair tree, GINK-oh by-LOE-buh, Size at 10 years: 60x50’, Green Foliage, Insignificant flower, USDA Hardiness Zone 3, In Garden Bed L1 for 9.1 YEARS (MSU). Planted in 2012.
North Carolina State University: Large deciduous tree 50' to 80' in height and 30' to 40' in width; leaves alternate, simple, fan-shaped; seeds (only on female trees) plum-like, yellow-orange, the outer, fleshy pulp foul-smelling when ripe, the inner wall hard, smooth, and cream colored. Grey-brown bark in ridges.
Messy fruit; plant male trees, yellow leaves fall rapidly in fall; drought, heat, air pollution, and moderately salt tolerant; easy to transplant; long-lived. Resistant to damage by deer. Excellent city tree. Popular for bonsai.
Site: Sun; range of soil types except wet soil
Excellent urban tolerant tree for its sculptural shape the quality of light it creates on the street. The streets of New York exemplify the use of the GinkGo as a street tree. Zone 8 and 9 in the Southeast.
Ginkgo biloba is a prehistoric tree, it disappeared from the North American fossil record about 7 million years ago and has since been introduced from a country or countries.
###Graft stock from MSU class on Jan 28, 2012. Graft failed. Tolerates Deer, Clay Soil, Air Pollution. Does not seem Black Walnut sensitive. It is planted next to a mature Blacl Walnut. Biloba derived from the Latin meaning two lobed.
Additional photos of this plant from 2015, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21:
This unique early first-century AD frescoed ceiling is located within an insignificant looking Biclinium, or two-benched dining room, cut into the rock in the heart of Little Petra (El Barid).
Known as the Painted Biclinium (No. 849) inside is the only surviving example of Nabatean wall painting.
The ceiling of the alcove at the back of the chamber is painted with a delicate tracery of vines with bunches of grapes hanging from the branches. Inhabiting this leafy and flowered world are a variety of birds, some in flight, others resting on branches, a cherub-like figure of Eros with his bow and arrow, and a flute-playing Pan.
(Damaged caused by Bedouin fires, and 2000 years of weathering)
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