Thomas Wright: Original theory or new hypothesis universe (1750)-plate xxxi.
As Frieze NY week looms large upon the tiny world called ‘art’ next week, and moi happens upon other things to do sorting out a ‘life’ (no disrespect to Frieze et al et al..) it is worth pondering what is old and never really new again- except it is always was new and thus never old before it’s time to mis-quote rather than mis-represent Aristotle.
Just ggoogled myself trying to finding a part of myself and stumbled upon a Frieze world with ME:)
umm.ymean a world with you and us and therefore them. Of course. You do. Something we all made alter meaning to be ahead of time but of course always late. What a global warming conspiracy, Doanld. Who knew tat we were Ihrish?!
Somewhere out there the you within you us me...
There’s a great book out there by Michael Benson: Cosmigraphics. How many really smart people does it take to invent a light bulb? Rhetorical, perhaps. But how many really smart people does it take to keep asking is this really the world in one cosmos? (Let alone f it all up!)
William Parsons’ image of the Whirlpool Galaxy from the mid-C19th created a sensation in the United Kingdom according to Benson: “It made its way into a French book popularizing astronomy by Camille Flammarion, the Carl Sagan of the 19th century.” And it bears a striking resemblance to Van Gogh’s spiraling stars in Starry Night. “We believe that drawing led directly to Starry Night- the most famous artistic depiction of the night sky. Either it was in the library of the asylum in the south of France, or he saw it in Paris.”
Touch the Sky: Art and Astronomy
Does anyone ever now care beyond their Facebook page? Will we soon have the tiny innards of mobiles being thrust light years away by lasars and we still talk about our ‘wall’ on Facebook. OK. Simplistic but kinda really true.
It is both heartening and depressing that though the decades ‘renegade’ ‘normal’ humans spoke what they saw/imagined/believed! It does certainly put a good case for living! How wrong could so many ‘well intentioned’ people/humans be when so many ‘believers’ got it all so almost totally right (no pun of course intended).
