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This series "Post-Nature" uses my original photography layered with discarded man-made plastic detritus to reflect our collective disregard for the Earth as we doomscroll and bingewatch the Fall of Rome on reality tv. We have so distanced ourselves from mother nature that, shrink-wrapped as we are, we forget that we are her children, made of the same raw materials as the trees, the rivers, the stars.
Surely there’s some obscure old word in an ancient language for this feeling that those of us alive and awake at this moment in time have...to hold both beauty and heartbreak in the palm of one hand.
Microplastic pollution has reached every part of the planet, from the summit of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans. People are already known to consume the tiny particles via food and water, and to breathe them in.
Their effect in the body is yet unknown but scientists say there is an urgent need to assess the issue, particularly for infants. In October, scientists revealed that babies fed formula milk in plastic bottles are swallowing millions of particles a day.
Microplastic particles have been revealed in the placentas of unborn babies for the first time, which the researchers said was “a matter of great concern”.
“It is like having a cyborg baby: no longer composed only of human cells, but a mixture of biological and inorganic entities,” said Antonio Ragusa, director of obstetrics and gynecology at the San Giovanni Calibita Fatebenefratelli hospital in Rome, and who led the study published in the journal Environment International.
Ex Abbazia Benedettina S. Maria di Maniace - Castello Nelson
The Threshold
Capitals on the left
The capitals of the portal of the church of Santa Maria of Maniace represent, on the left, a group od allegorica Sculptures, symbols of the deadly sins.
the scene begins with a group of sculptures connected eache other, in which we can find female figures, womens or harpies with wings and snaker's tail, strictly linked to unclean monster, symbols of evil, snakes with head of reptile and with head of man, dragons with wings and head of monkey, man and siamese.
the woman is represented as a Symob od Evil, protector of wicked-being.
The sculputer also represents a further symbolism of the deadly sins: Pride, Avarice, Greed, Sloth, Anger, this last one clearly represented by the old man pulling up his own beard.
With continuity, the scene is an intricated developing of comples figures and artistic invention that give to te rapresentation a notable dynamism.
"Shifting Threshold" – Joan Irving – Eight rectangular glass and steel panels perched on top of poles placed at multiple locations on East Valley Parkway. The center median at Hickory; two gateway pieces mid-block on the north and south side of East Valley between Ash and Harding on the landscaped areas adjacent to the sidewalk; center medians at the East Valley and Rose intersection, the Midway and East Valley intersection, and the center median at Citrus and East Valley.
We added some hardwood thresholds in our upstairs doorways where the carpet meets the tile. The cat (el diablo gato) was scratching up the seams when the doors would close. This protects the carpet and makes things a little more attractive, too.
The Anglican Cathedral Church of St. Fachtna in the beautiful West Cork town of Rosscarbery (Ireland) stands on a site where Christian worship has been offered for over 1400 years. It also happens to be the smallest cathedral in Ireland.
Here St. Fachtna founded a monastic school in AD 590. Pilgrims and scholars came from near and far and gained for Ross the title "Ross Ailithir" - the wooded headland of the pilgrims.
During 2003 a major restoration programme began at the Cathedral and phase 1 has been successfully completed. This has involved re-roofing and re-rendering the building, major drainage work and the installation of new heating and electrical systems. The building has also been floodlit.
Test of my camera filter app using the main lens on my cell phone. I had to aim it in strange ways to get the subject centered. (The bug is very frustrating and difficult to find but I will persist.) Naomi was talking to me unaware the clock behind her was looking at her.
I used a threshold filter I wrote for this image.