Light Spectrum

Esther Scroll; dedicated in honor of Ezra Somekh; Kolkata, India; 19th–20th Century.

Esther scrolls in elaborate cases, recounting the Purim story of the salvation of the Jews in the Persian Empire, were often given as betrothal gifts and passed on from one generation to the next as veritable family heirlooms. This scroll from Kolkata invokes the biblical blessing of Joseph to protect the groom, Ezra Somekh.

René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967), Le monde des images [The World of Images], 1950. Oil on canvas, 100 x 80.6 cm.

Philipp Igumnov, Cloudhouse, Photo collage

Winter Hues  Germany-based photographer Ben Simon Rehn shares beautiful shots of winter hues in Iceland February and March 2020.

~ Folio from the “Blue Qur'an”. Object Name: Folio from a non-illustrated manuscript Date: second half 9th–mid-10th century Geography: Made in Tunisia, probably Qairawan Medium: Gold and silver on indigo-dyed parchment.

Levi van Veluw

#dailies #c4d victor vasarely op art inspired box loop 

Sacred Spaces

France-based photographer Thibaud Poirier has been traveling the world and documenting modern churches as he goes. He’s captured the interiors of 29 modern churches across Germany, The Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Japan to see how each city has designed structures of worship within the last century. 

There’s this Carrie Fisher quote, “Take your broken heart. Turn it into art.” 

Embroidery is one of two things i find consistently therapeutic: the more difficult one. I can cook in most moods, but I can’t reach for needle and thread when I’m at my lowest. So this was sitting in my head for months before I cajoled Sis into sketching it out for me.

Every stitch in it feels like another step towards some luminous numinous state of victory over my depression and anxiety. Small steps, of course, with a great deal of backsliding and self-loathing in the mix, but steps nonetheless, traced out in pinks and reds and maroon. I’m still here, and I’m healing, and even on days when my world and vision are greyed out, I’m still here.