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If you visit Whitemill Bay, with the exception of North Ronaldsay, there is nothing but open sea until you arrive at Shetland. The Northerly wilderness and the deserted bay bring home the feral expanse of the Northern Isles and a trajectory towards the Faroe's, Iceland, Jan Mayen and the Arctic Circle.
Whitemill Bay is eerily beautiful, the patterns of the untouched slate that are prevalent across the bay, the white sands and the deep, variegated hues of the ocean inspire awe and evoke a feeling of alienation that is redolent of human disparity with nature. Paradoxically, the beauty of the bay evokes a profound calmness that, for me, is an expression of the existential link between human beings and nature. However. I acknowledge that the bifurcation between man and nature is arbitrary.
There was no human presence during my visit, the only other creatures I observed were a splattering of Sea Gulls in the near distance, baying and shrieking like some kind of Jurassic animal! The natural light appeared to be filtered through the dramatic cloud forms that threatened storms, despite the warm, sunny conditions. Rainbow-like colours hung in the air, giving a subtle colouration and the graphic hues of the rocks, sea and sand seemed to create a painting that was yet to be painted!
Simon
"Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation
The underlying theme"
“When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.” - Criss Jami, Killosophy
An abandoned Castle in Italy in the process of being rescued Non Plus Ultra.
We had been told this beautiful castle in Italy would be a hard one to crack, we made it there early in the morning, only to be surprised by a crowd waiting outside to go in. This castle has been derelict for many years, but once a year its gates are opened so the public can look inside and we had chosen that day to try and get inside. It made our life easier as we joined the tour group and then subsequently got lost inside while they followed the room by room tour.
I have wanted to see this building from the 1600's for years, since I first gazed on its magnificent abandoned beauty in some friends photos. It did not disappoint, room upon room of detail, elegance and decoration like in this one.
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Living in the limelight, the universal dream
For those who wish to see
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation, the underlying theme....
I caught Joey taking a cat nap underneath the cool airconditioner's breeze while I watched television.
And for those of you wondering if the above reads like a set of song lyrics, they are. Rush fans will immediately recognize the song Limelight, from the band's 1981 Moving Pictures album. 😎
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! "May you live to be 100 years with one extra year to repent." -- James Joyce, Irish novelist
Back stage at the Palace of Culture in Pripyat - Chernobyl. This must have been some venue before it's untimely closure in April 1986 due to the accident / explosion at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station.
'Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.'
Green Day
EN GRANDE SE VE MEJOR-TO SEE MORE LARGE-POUR VOIR PLUS GRAND
La Catedral de San Salvador de Oviedo , es uno de los exponentes del Gótico Español en todas las fases de esta arquitectura, desde el clasicismo del Siglo Xiii , hasta la etapa tardía Hispano-Flamenca del Siglo XVI.
La Torre fué construida en el Siglo XVI , y tiene una altura superior a 62 metros , distribuída entre las cuatro plantas que la forman, y la aguja que mide 17 metros.La secuencia de vanos alargados , y de progresivo estrechamiento , así como la disminución en la sección de cada planta , acentúan la sensación de alejamiento y esbeltez.
The Cathedral of San Salvador de Oviedo, is one of the exponents of Spanish Gothic at all stages of this architecture, from the classicism of the thirteenth century until the late stage of the Hispano-Flemish sixteenth century.
The tower was built in the sixteenth century, and has a height exceeding 62 meters, distributed among the four plants that form, and the needle is 17 metros.La sequence of elongated openings, and progressive narrowing and the decrease section of each plant, emphasize the sense of alienation and slenderness.
A second post for the day. I must admit a little alienation from Flickr as of late. The continual changing to the page, my taking of photographs much on the decline (Arthritis), my being too busy to do so, and my being too curious, experimenting with permissions and losing ALL of the favorites on my photos. (Yes, still harping on that and my stupidity for doing so . . . losing over 850 faves on one). I am also getting ready for school again; I’ve had to take the second semester off the last two years for various psychological reasons (I’ve not shared that), most of which have been sorted out now. Lamicatal Still, I need to be on top of it now and am working diligently at it.
Forgive my come and go here, as well as my letting loose.
Thanks for Reading and Viewing.
Alienation.
Manický temperament depresivní umělecké chodby oblékli studené myšlenky divoké šílenství psychotické rozbité emocionální onemocnění pečlivá představivost mocná,
Raisons contradictueuses humeurs émotionnelles réductionnisme créatif banaliser les préoccupations influences énergétiques psychiatrie grave inquiète maladie yeux fous,
Visioni mercuriali perturbed attacchi disturbi bizzarri ispiratore poeta intrusi lusinghe percezioni scientifiche estreme accendendo episodi eccessi,
kritescher verréckt Ëmstänn emotionalen Mustere psychosis Spannungen Medikament schwéiere entléisst Hëtzt vergiessen hypochondriasm makaber passt ganz gudd,
Naraščajoče obupa, ki se bori z nenavadnimi ekscentričnimi nihanji, ekstravagantnimi letami, hlapne navade, irascible temper bipolarno duševno obdobje, hitro razmišljanje,
話し合いのエピソード興奮した感情広大な信頼感衝撃的な表現栄光的な悲しみの乗り物の知覚珍しい自尊心.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the short story "The Metamorphosis" and novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe situations like those found in his writing.
Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the capital of the Czech Republic. He trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education was employed full-time by an insurance company, forcing him to relegate writing to his spare time. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote hundreds of letters to family and close friends, including his father, with whom he had a strained and formal relationship. He became engaged to several women but never married. He died in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis.
Few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime: the story collections Contemplation and A Country Doctor, and individual stories (such as "The Metamorphosis") were published in literary magazines but received little public attention. In his will, Kafka instructed his executor and friend Max Brod to destroy his unfinished works, including his novels The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, but Brod ignored these instructions. His work has influenced a vast range of writers, critics, artists, and philosophers during the 20th and 21st centuries.
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"Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
And we walked off to look for America
Cathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said, be careful, his bowtie is really a camera
Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenery
She read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
Cathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping
And I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America"
Simon and Garfunkel 1968
Kafka died before he could finish the work and the novel was posthumously published against his wishes. Dark and at times surreal, The Castle is often understood to be about alienation, unresponsive bureaucracy, the frustration of trying to conduct business with non-transparent, seemingly arbitrary controlling systems, and the futile pursuit of an unobtainable goal.
Lithograph on Japanese Bunko-Shi paper, ed.17/30
In Lynch's work, the subconscious if often viewed as a place of conflict, where paranoid, phobias and moments of crisis reveal the negativity and instability of the human condition.
As he asserts, 'Everyone's subconscious is filled with plenty of horror. All the things we don't want to face with our conscious minds are there just waiting for us.' While locality plays an important role in characterising the immensity of these problems (in particular, insular and closed spaces), the challenges are ultimately made worse because the 'problems are inside the people themselves'.
In many of his lithographs, we are presented with an almost infantile outlook, with protagonists engaged in states of confusion, longing and alienation. The use of text - a few words or short phrases inscribed onto the lithographic stone - bestows these often solitary figures with various states of existential distress and emotional anguish reinforced by the titles of the works.
Courtesy: The artist and Item editions
Lithograph on Japanese Bunko-Shi paper, ed.17/30
Courtesy: The artist and Item editions.
In Lynch's work, the subconscious if often viewed as a place of conflict, where paranoid, phobias and moments of crisis reveal the negativity and instability of the human condition.
As he asserts, 'Everyone's subconscious is filled with plenty of horror. All the things we don't want to face with our conscious minds are there just waiting for us.' While locality plays an important role in characterising the immensity of these problems (in particular, insular and closed spaces), the challenges are ultimately made worse because the 'problems are inside the people themselves'.
In many of his lithographs, we are presented with an almost infantile outlook, with protagonists engaged in states of confusion, longing and alienation. The use of text - a few words or short phrases inscribed onto the lithographic stone - bestows these often solitary figures with various states of existential distress and emotional anguish reinforced by the titles of the works.
Inside the Ghost Town of Pripyat
this place was evacuated after 2 days from the Chernobyl accident and it will be inhabitable for the next 20,000 years
6.10.2017, Räuber H., 21x30 cm, Tusche, Wasserfarben, Farbstifte auf Papier.
610.2017, Robber H., 8x12 inch, ink, watercolors, colored pencils on paper.
Momentan zeige ich Zeichnungen von 2013, die ich kürzlich übermalt habe - erst fast normal, aber als drittes Bild eine Verfremdung, die ich mir ausgedacht habe mit surrealistischem Charakter als eine Überraschung.
At the moment, I'm showing drawings from 2013, which I recently painted - almost normal, but as a third picture an alienation, which I devised with surrealistic character as a surprise.
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Boyhood series is a narrative visual confession which maps both personal and mediated experiences. Boyhood is a time in our life when we begin to discover ourselves through inner dialogues and explore our self identity. We connect with everything around us, begin to discover and close in on ourselves. We create isolated places where we feel safe from all the hustle and bustle around us. Even so, a form of alienation can be poetically and visually beautiful. I offer the viewer a look at the emotionally unfinished stories. I create images that appear to be stills from a film as untold stories. What led to this situation and what will happen next is a question for all of us, which I am looking for an answer to.
Swimming pool - Pripyat/При́п'ять/При́пять - Kyiv Oblast - Ukraine
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the town of Pripyat, in Ukraine (then officially the Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe.
The Chernobyl disaster was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history in terms of cost and casualties. It is one of only two classified as a level 7 event (the maximum classification) on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011. The battle to contain the contamination and avert a greater catastrophe ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles. During the accident itself, 31 people died, and long-term effects such as cancers are still being investigated.
"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength."
Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
Hyoscyamus niger L., syn.: Hyoscyamus auriculatus Ten., Hyoscyamus bohemicus F. W. Schmidt, Hyoscyamus pallidus Willd., Hyoscyamus pictus Roth, Hyoscyamus syspirensis C. Koch, Hyoscyamus verviensis Leg.
Hyoscyamus vulgaris Neck.
Family: Solanaceae
EN: Black Henbane; DE: Schwarze Bilsenkraut
Slo.: črni zobnik
Dat.: May 20. 2024 and May 23. 2024
Lat.: 44.75230 Long.: 14.42711
Code: Bot_1579/2024 _DSC5762 and Bot_1582/2024 _DSC5762
Habitat: ruderal, open, calcareous, stony place; flat terrain, open, full sun, dry place; average precipitations 900 - 1.000 mm/year, average temperature 7 - 9 deg C, elevations 120 m (390 feet), Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region.
Substratum: stony soil
Place: Adriatic Sea, island Cres, east of the main road Cres – Osor, next to the dirt road toward the settlement Srem, Kvarner Bay, Rijeka region, Croatia.
Comments (pertain to pictures in Flicker album Hyoscyamus niger): Hyoscyamus niger is a rare plant on the island of Cres. There are only two references in the FCD database (Ref.: 5), one from an indirect literature source and another observation from 2008. Otherwise, it spreads almost throughout Europe, parts of Western Asia, Africa, Morocco, and Algeria (Ref.: 1).
The plant is medicinal, dangerously poisonous, and has been associated with magic and sorcery for centuries. Its vernacular English name 'nightshade' perfectly reflects its mystery. In medieval texts, magical or ritual properties are ascribed to it. In the compendium of ritual plants in Europe, De Cleene and Lejeune describe medieval sources in which the plant is used to evoke rain, summon demons, and attract game. It is also noted as an ingredient in witches’ tonics due to its psychoactive and hallucinogenic properties. Archaeological excavations dated to AD 70–100 prove its intentional use by humans (Ref. 2) for medical purposes. It was used to relieve chest complaints, all kinds of pain, mucus, and disorders of the womb, and as a remedy for toothache, flatulence, and shortness of breath. However, it has serious side effects too. It causes heavy disturbance of the senses, such as alienation of the mind or madness. Pliny already warned that the drug is dangerous in any form.
References:
(1) Euro+Med 2006+ [continuously updated]: Euro+Med PlantBase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. – www.europlusmed.org [accessed Sept. 12. 2024]
(2) Groot M, van Haasteren M, Kooistra LI. Evidence of the intentional use of black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the Roman Netherlands. Antiquity. 2024; 98(398):470-485; doi:10.15184/aqy.2024.5
(3) T. Nikolić, Flora Croatica, Vaskularna flora Republike Hrvatske, Vol. 3. Alfa d.d.. Zagreb (2020) p 640.
(4) W.K. Rottensteiner, Exkursionsflora für Istrien, Verlag des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Kärten (2014), p 878.
(5) T. Nikolić ed. (2015 + [continuously updated]): Flora Croatica Database (FCD) (hirc.botanic.hr/fcd), Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb (accessed date: 2024/09/04).
(6) C. Zerling, Lexikon der Pflanzensymbolik, (2007), AT Verlag, Baden und München