The Host

from The Host (Gwoemul), Joon-ho Bong, 2006 (here)

Solstice

Solstice in the Newgrange passage tomb at sunrise (from the interior towards
the entrance, and sunlight on the floor of the inner chamber),
Ireland, December 21, 2007, taken from webcast (here)

Fireworks

Ryogoku hanabi (Fireworks at Ryogoku), Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856
here

Seascapes

Tyrrhenian Sea, Scilla, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1993 here



Lake Superior, Cascade River, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1995 here




Baltic Sea, Rügen, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1996 here

They are merely conventional signs

He had bought a large map representing the sea,
Without the least vestige of land:
And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
A map they could all understand.

"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"
So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
"They are merely conventional signs!"

from Lewis Caroll's The Hunting of the Snark

Untitled

Mark Rothko, 1968


This is one of a group of paintings on paper which Rothko made after a period of illness in 1968,
when he was too weak to work on his customary large-scale canvases.

image and text from the tate collection here

The Rothko Chapel

The Rothko Chapel, Mark Rothko, 1964-71

Black on Maroon

Black on Maroon, Mark Rothko, 1959


Black on Maroon, Mark Rothko, 1958


Photo © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/DACS 2006 here and here

Mark Rothko

/.../On the journey down from Naples the party had fallen in with a couple of Italian youths who offered to act as guides.
At Paestum, where the odd-assorted little band picnicked at noon in the Temple of Hera, the young men expressed their
curiosity as to the identity and occupations of the Americans. Fischer's daughter, who was acting as interpreter, turned
to Rothko and said: "I have told them that you are an artist, and they ask whether you came here to paint the temples,"
to which Rothko replied: "Tell them that I have been painting Greek temples all my life without knowing it."

John Banville on Rothko here

Tools and Grammar

/.../Utgångspunkten är en tysk journalfilm från 1926, som handlar om en klosterskola för blinda barn i Stuttgart.
I en scen besöker barnen en kyrkogård, som de sedan får återskapa i klostrets sandlåda. - Klosterskolan syftade
till att stärka de blinda barnens självkänsla genom att stärka deras andra sinnen. På den tiden fanns inte blindskrift
och de enda stället de kunde läsa, var på gravstenar där bokstäverna är urkarvade/.../

ur DN:påstan om Felix Gmelins utställning Tools and Grammar