The Sense of Wonder

"The suddenness, radical disorientation, the sensation to be withdrawn from the normal course of time, 

the intuitive certitude to have come in contact with a real ordinarily hidden, 
the overwhelming joy, the serenity, the sense of wonder." 

Michel Hulin, La Mystique Sauvage: Aux Antipodes de l'Esprit, translation mine. 

Gustav Klimt - Fish Blood - 1897-98

Jan Toorop - Fatalism - 1893

Kasimir Malevich - The Shroud of Christ - 1908

Free from Change

“...all god is good, free from passion, free from change. 

For whatever suffers change does so for the worse or the better; 

if for the worse, it is made bad; if for the better, it must have been bad at first.” 

Sallustius, On the Gods and the Cosmos, I

In continuation of The Circle of Things

Architecture Without Architects - Value Model Of Central Copenhagen - 1970
via Nicolas Moulin

Joseph Hoffman - Untitled Cubist Sculpture - 1902

Suppose Design Office - T Clinic - Kure City

via Christian Katarn

The Second Time as Farce

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, 
so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: 
the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852

Kasimir Malevich - Suprematism (?) - 1915

Blue Noses - Kitchen Suprematism - 2005

Frank O. Gehry - Winton Guest House - 1983 to 1986

A Five Year Plan For Chess

“We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. 

We must condemn once and for all the formula 'chess for the sake of chess', like the formula 'art for art's sake'. 

We must organize shockbrigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.” 

Nikolai Krylenko, quoted in Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment

Friedrich Froebel - Fifth Gift - Circa 1900

 Joseph Hartwig - Bauhaus Chess Set - 1922

Moshe Safdie - Six Module Component System - 1968

Mathew Borrett - Dwelling of the Gods

“Therefore we ought to try to escape from earth to the dwelling of the gods as quickly as we can; 

and to escape is to become like God, so far as this is possible.” 

Plato, Thaeatetus

Mathew Borrett's Website

Mathew Borrett - Exploring a Hypnagogic City

Mathew Borrett - Hiding Places

Mathew Borrett - Sleeping With The Window Open

Mathew Borrett - Some Memories Are Flooded

Mathew Borrett - Untitled

That Idea above the Soul

“An invisible current causes modem philosophy to place the Soul above the Idea. 

It thus tends, like modern science, and even more so than modern science, 

to advance in an opposite direction to ancient thought.” 

Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics, 1903

Gustav Klutsis - The Dynamic City ( Dinamicheskii gorod ) - 1919

Dan Gaymers - Polythene Underground - 2011

Adolph Gottlieb - The Red - 1972