anatomy of fragility, frankfurt

art by Agnes Questionmark

The first "kafana" in Belgrade :o)

Photo Marta Jejina © All rights reserved

We went to the wetlands in a 2-hour break in our wet weather yesterday and saw more butterflies than we've seen anywhere lately. Several QM's were freshly out. It was also a great day for dragonflies which I'll start posting tomorrow.

Happy Butterfly Monday!!

The band Lost Society, young upstarts lol, but a great band :)

Or so this Question Mark would have had me believe. The photo is only so-so, but I had to laugh when I saw him up in the tree, doing a remarkable impression of a dead leaf in hopes that I wouldn't notice him, so I did the best I could with the light I had.

I love this question mark.

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For Our Daily Challenge: The Big Question

Het geheim van de Paardenmarkt - Alkmaar

www.kijklens.nl

Drawn with a Super Spirograph.

Illustration from "Our Land of Song" ca. 1942 published by C C Birchard and Company

The book credits Martha Powel Setchell, Adelaide True Kelley, and Esther Boston Bristol as illustrators

On a very old door, it looked like a question mark. But, what was the question?

JLo in Monster in Law movie

Der richtige Ballon am richtigen Ort über der richtigen Person!

The right balloon at the right place above the right person.

Polygonia interrogationis

Beskrivning: Växter och man med ett frågetecken istället för huvud

Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara, Gustaf Sandströms exlibrissamling (bildnr 7032)

Seen in Leeds Met, Art & Design building.

Who, what, why, when, where, how?

"Question Mark" is a new sculpture created by Rosario Marquardt and Roberto Behar and funded through a gift from the Madison Public Library Foundation. Photo by library staff.

I was not only excited to see this one, but photograph it as well. It must have stayed in position for 10-15 seconds allowing me to get off several shots. Photographed in the Dixon Gardens of Memphis, Tennessee. ~ view large

stacking by Siril x2 drizzle + ASI662MC + 31.5mm UV/IR filter + SAMYANG 135mm F2 on AZGTI

4831 framesx2sec

I wonder if he / she will say yes?

day 7,

Amelie is getting to be enjoyable to watch again.

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Question Marks and Commas are uncommon butterflies not found on flowers. They're usually in woods or woodsy edges. Large and beautiful with wings spread, they take on the camouflage of dried leaves when perched.

A teenager peeking above a white sheet with a question mark. May be used to illustrate "what do women want?"

What wonders await patrons of this night club?

Shaky hand + LEDs + No Flash = Question Marks

do people still see?

how much do people turn a blind eye to?

is there any beauty at all in junk?

what happens to the things we throw away?

how much of the world do we NOT see?

do we still live?

how much potential can there possibly be in garbage?

in unwanted things,

in the mundane,

in the quotidian?

does potential ever disappear, diminish?

how about beauty?

does that have a limit?

can it exist without meaning?

does the ordinary hold a secret that we have to discover?

does it have something to tell us?

are we listening?

how do we hear it?

what does it sound like?

does anyone still listen?

how is it that significance can be diminished?

is there still significance in soemething that’s been thrown away?

is it true that one man’s junk is another man’s treasure?

is kitsch really what they say it is?

should sentimentality be a part of art if no one’s going to see it anyway?

is there a line that artists cross to go from thoughtful & introspective to just plain pretentious?

is kitsch even real?

does art have a universal standard?

is art saying anything?

is meaning vital in a piece of art?

is it possible to get rid of meaning?

does art need a message?

what fuels art?

is there meaning in a piece of half-eaten burnt toast,

or a burnt house,

or a torn piece of paper,

or shards of broken glass,

or flattened aluminum cans,

or frayed pages of a book?

how about the space under a chair?

or a half-open window,

or the friction in stacked chairs,

or the space between a ball point of a pen and a blank surface of paper,

or the crossed-out words in a manuscript draft?

maybe there’s meaning in a door left ajar,

and the little crevasses in a sandwich bite,

and the creases in a bedsheet you’ve just woken up from,

and the heat on a chair that’s just been stood up from?

maybe there’s meaniing in the crossed out days in a calendar?

or the ticked boxes on checklists?

maybe the blurred movement in a photograph has something to say?

would the marks on a pavement have stories to tell?

maybe if it had the little breadcrumbs from that sandwich with a bite?

and if it was bought with one of the aluminum cans flattened?

recognition lies in relationships, can it be thus said?

and is it so that significance comes with that recognition?

so is the question then HAVE PEOPLE FORGOTTEN?

have they lost sight because they cannot recognize?

do they still remember when they first saw the world?

do these things become invisible or are they just overlooked?

can we still go back to when we remembered?

can someone show us the way back?

are these people the ones who thrive in the mundane, ordinary things?

the ones who collect the quotidian?

and what do they do with it?

do they give it a new home so it can breathe again?

do we need to be collected & put in a new home to breathe & be remembered?

will the world still exist without the quotidian?

will we still live without remembering the quotidian?

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(the first task on our checklist said to accomplish a title for our contextual study. “better if it is posed as a question,” it said. i took that quite literally and drew two big question marks, not paying much attention to the near future of finishing it and figuring out what to do next. and then a question popped up in my head. and another. and another. and about fifty more. i just kept going until it filled up.)

"Question Mark" is a new sculpture created by Rosario Marquardt and Roberto Behar and funded through a gift from the Madison Public Library Foundation. Photo by library staff.