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A faded ghost sign in Melbourne, Australia. I can make out "Beds, Tables, Chairs" and "Special Lines, Builders Hardware". It looks like there was an older sign underneath that said "Razors".
This was taken through my 26th floor hotel window in New York City. The layers of glass cast a reflection. Rather than clucking that the shot was ruined, I decided to simply include it as a palimpsest of the safety I experience at 26 floors above the street over the image of busy streets and a seemingly placid river that slices through the millions of lived experiences on both sides of the Hudson River.
Palimpsest • \PAL-imp-sest\ • noun = Multiple Layers.
The Architectural History revealed when a building is destroyed, removed or altered,
exposing all of the painted surfaces, wall textures, bricked in windows & doorways.
Humans are builders.
And-
"REAL ESTATE" is a finite reality (Commodity).
Quite often what one man builds - another man tears down
....and often in the process reveals something unique
about the past occupants.
What was there........?
Architects imply Palimpsest as a ghost—an image of what once was.
In the built environment, this occurs somewhat often.
Whenever spaces are shuffled, rebuilt, or remodeled, shadows remain.
Tarred rooflines remain on the sides of a building long after the neighboring structure
has been demolished;
Demolished Stairs, leave an imprint of where the painted wall surface stopped.
Dust lines recall a relocated appliance.
Ancient ruins speak volumes of their former wholeness.
Palimpsests can inform us, archaeologically, of the realities of the built past.
Where Nature and Imagination Meet....
Come experience mountains and canyons, desert and dunes, night skies and spectacular vistas within a place unlike any other. Guadalupe Mountains National Park protects the world's most extensive Permian fossil reef, the four highest peaks in Texas, an environmentally diverse collection of flora and fauna, and the stories of lives shaped through conflict, cooperation and survival.
For over 10,000 years, the Guadalupes Mountains have witnessed a constant stream of human history, including bloody conflicts between Mescalero Apaches and Buffalo Soldiers, the passing of the Butterfield Overland Mail, the coming of ranchers and settlers, and finally, the making of a national park. Today, the history is preserved at the Frijole and Williams Ranches, and at the ruins of the Pinery Station.
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Peintre, sculpteur, graveur et dessinateur, Julien Marinetti est un artiste qui s’est fait connaître en fusionnant la sculpture et la peinture, qu'il appelle "syncrétisme de l'art". Ses sculptures en terre, comme les bouledogues, pandas, pingouins et crânes, ont été ensuite transformées en bronze. Depuis 15 ans, son oeuvre phare, Doggy John, est devenue une icône et est exposée dans des villes prestigieuses à travers le monde, comme Paris, New York, Londres et Singapour, pour le plus grand plaisir des spectateurs.
L’auteur de cette ménagerie déjantée se révèle être l’artiste contemporain Julien Marinetti, à la fois sculpteur et peintre, qui signe ici une collaboration avec L’auteur de cette ménagerie déjantée se révèle être l’artiste contemporain Julien Marinetti, à la fois sculpteur et peintre, qui signe ici une collaboration avec Mendelsohn Gallery. Si l’influence cubiste de Picasso se ressent dans son travail, puisqu’il représente une de ses inspirations majeures, Marinetti mélange les styles pour un résultat unique, particulièrement palpable dans ses sculptures d’animaux géantes et colorées. Chat, chien, panda, et même Casimir, ces drôles de bêtes à l’apparence arc-en-ciel portent un nom tout aussi singulier, les Juliengoths, comme une sorte de descendance imaginaire de Julien Marinetti.
À l’angle des Champs-Elysées, alors que Yayoi Kusama attire déjà l’œil sur la façade de Louis Vuitton, s’installent jusqu’au 16 mars 2023, les sculptures géantes de Julien Marinetti contemporain. Tout le long de l’avenue George V, une dizaine de sculptures animales vous attendent.
Originaux et insolites, ces sculptures détonnent dans ce quartier chic de la capitale. En effet, c’est devant Vuitton, Hermès, le Prince de Galles ou encore le George V, que ces animaux et personnages posent de façon magistrale
DOGGY JOHN – Nous retrouvons la pièce iconique de l’artiste, sphinx des temps modernes contemplant le monde. Sous la forme d’un bouledogue français, représentant amour, protection et loyauté à son maître, se cache un regard acerbe et sans concession sur ses contemporains. C’est en 1998 que l’artiste imagine son célèbre Doggy John, en huile sur toile d’abord avant de s’affranchir des dimensions de la peinture pour prendre les formes rondes que lui offre la sculpture. Julien Marinetti donnera naissance à ce qu’il appellera ensuite le « syncrétisme de l’Art » à la fois peinture, gravure et sculpture. « Le chien est le catalyseur de mon syncrétisme de l’art, c’est-à-dire de sa totalité. Ce que je fais est bien du syncrétisme puisqu’il y a bien de la peinture, de la sculpture et de la gravure. Il y a aussi des vernis, des laques : je touche à pas mal de choses qui n’ont normalement rien à voir les unes avec les autres. » Julien Marinetti aime à penser aux moines copistes du Moyen Age, dont les palimpsestes nécessitaient eux aussi qu’ils reconditionnent le support original en grattant d’anciens parchemins.
The retouched and eroded hieroglyphs in the Temple of Seti I which are said to represent modern vehicles – a helicopter, a submarine, and a zeppelin or plane.
Some of the hieroglyphs carved over an arch on the site have been interpreted in esoteric and "ufological" circles as depicting modern technology.
The carvings are often thought to be a helicopter, a battle tank or submarine, and a fighter plane (some interpret this as a U.F.O.) However, these conjectures are largely based in pseudoarchaeology, and the picture often claimed as "evidence" has been retouched.
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I've heard of Abydos for the first time for some time, through one of those sensationalist blogs with no credibility. The text said that in that temple, archaeologists had found new hieroglyphs when the plaster of a wall dropped and fell, revealing UFO-like aircraft drawings, including a figure that featured a helicopter. He would be known as the Abydos Helicopter. The most impressive thing about it was that it showed the photo of the hieroglyphs that really looked like flying machines. Was it fake or not?
The years passed and the veracity of the existence of these hieroglyphs always left me suspicious. If that were true, it could change the course of history. I realized that it was real when a theory came up trying to refute the interpretation of these hieroglyphics. In the explanation, this would be a "palimpsest"! Ah, now it's explained! Briefly explaining, a palimpsest is an overlap of hieroglyphs, it would be writing over, causing a false image.
When I first started planning the trip to Egypt, Abydos was one of the first places I marked on the map. And then finally came the day of seeing with my own eyes those mysterious figures on the walls of the temple. I will try to analyze here some details that are not normally seen on other blogs, books or TV shows and let each one reach its conclusion.
The first thing that is evident is that there is no trace of any plaster that has hidden the hieroglyphics. They are hieroglyphs written on the stone beam that serves as support for the slabs.
Observing the next hieroglyphs, whether on the left, on the right, or even on the opposite side of the flying machine figures, one clearly perceives that there was indeed the palimpsest practice in that temple, some even looking like scrawled drawings on top.
The theory of the palmypsestos of Abydos seems to prove by the example of the hieroglyphs around that controversial drawing. Once again archaeologists are able to end a myth using their academic theories. Will it be?
Something in the eyes of those less skeptical still prevents them from being convinced by these explanations. Even with the evidence that there really was palimpsest in the writings of Abydos, nothing explains the blatant "coincidences" of those specific figures. Why are flying machine-like figures concentrated (apart from the helicopter, are there 3 more ships in a row)? Why are they facing in the same direction (the inside of the temple)? Why are the overlapping of these specific scriptures not evident like the others?
These questions tend to remain. There are many coincidences in a temple that is one of the oldest places of worship in the world. And if that was the only mystery of this temple ... but it is not ... I would discover much more!
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Rappahannock River
The Rappahannock River in eastern Virginia is the country's longest free-flowing river in the eastern United States, running for approximately 184 miles, from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the west to the Chesapeake by south of the Potomac. The Rappahannock River offers one of the most scenic and best-protected river corridors in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Rapidan River, originating from the west side of the state, connects with the Rappahannock about 10 miles northwest of Fredericksburg.
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The Joseph Priestley House and laboratory is an historic site that preserves and interprets the contributions and significance to American history of Joseph Priestley. As a National Historic Landmark and National Historic Chemical Landmark, the site features Priestley’s manor house with its laboratory. In the nearby Pond Building can be found the Joseph Priestley Timeline, a series of panels that present accomplishments during different periods of his life.
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Calistoga, CA
January 2009
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Name: Jessica Caisse
Media/process: 16"x20" kodak portra chromogenic print
Camera: 4x5 Wista field camera
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Reflecting her darker days - under the name Despo (Desperado) - in the animal shelter of Vlissingen (Zeeland).
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