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Life is what happens, when you are busy making other plans.
Sometimes those wonderfully insignificant moments are all that you need :)
With insignificant flowers, consisting of spathe and spadix, typical of plants belonging to the aroid family.
Some plant information on Chinese Evergreen as it is commonly named.
This used to be just a very insignificant spot, but after the recent rains, it has turned into a true waterfall. I loved getting the mist in the top left. The water continues down to the left where a large reflective pool of water expands into marshy woods, with huge trees, and moss dripping from the branches...
De temps en temps ce géant blanc apparait entre les nuages comme pour dire "vous humains êtes si insignifiants bien que vous vous croyez importants"... Le Volcan Nevado Del huila (5364 m anm) en fin de journée il y a environ 2 semaines. Colombie.
De vez en cuando este gigante blanco aparece entre las nubes como para decir "ustedes humanos locos son tan insignificantes así se crean importantes".... El Volcán Nevado Del Huila (5364 m snm) al final del día hace casi dos semanas. Colombia.
It is often the little things, that get overlooked, but which are sometimes so full of beauty, if we would only take the time.
...insignificant to the people that sit at this table but means a lot to us. This table has been here since the first time I discovered Starbucks. Spent countless hours at this very spot. We have seen many employee at this Starbucks come and go. From the "Hello" on their first day to the "Goodbye" on their last day. We see them grown from just a fresh out of high school student to a full blown store manager with their own store.
High Orchard, Gloucester. The insignificant looking building between the yellow lorry and the silos is the former Midland Railway transit shed, built in 1867. It is an iron framed structure, clad in corrugated iron. Cast iron columns with moulded capitals are combined with wrought-iron trusses and a hipped slate roof. The building was given grade II listed status in 1998.
Photographed on 16th April 1991.
Despite its rich railway history, this is one of only about five railway buildings that survive in Gloucester from before the 1960s.
The large red brick building behind is the former Downing's Malthouse which can be seen better in this picture:
This probably looks like an insignificant photo, but it is far from it. She turned 4 this week and gave up the blanket she has been attached to since birth. Today, we went out and she selected her new pink, fluffy "big girl" blanket. As we walked out of the store she said. . . "I'm so happy I could cry."
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.
I really love this piece. Victorians were a little stuffy, but you cannot deny those folks knew how to mourn in style. Tear vials, ridiculously awesome mourning attire, and beautiful things made from the deceased's hair. So, this particular piece was lovingly hand made from 100% human hair, somewhere in the lateish 1800s.
In Victorian times, it was customary to mourn the dead by making decorative jewelry, wreaths, or trees from the deceased's hair. In the case of jewelry, the item would typically be worn throughout the mourning period. It's genius, really. Hair is fine like thread, it's strong, and its the one thing that will basically never decompose.
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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“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
© Diana Yakowitz 2010 all rights reserved.
Working on a set of photos using different 'development' techniques for different moods. This is b&w, green filter, light sepia.
I thought I would go ahead and post all three of them. This is the only one that I did not use soft focus with since the green filter tends to reduce the tonal range and thus detail is more important.
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.
Remember those giant shoulder-mounted video cameras from the late 70s, or early 80's? This is the magic that made them work. When that brownish screen on the right is struck by photons, it emits electrons, which are picked up on the other end of the tube, and then translated into a video signal. Nowadays, we'd just use a CCD, but in the olden days, CCDs were crazy expensive, and had terrible resolution.
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