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Untitled from “Alpine Star” by Ron Jude. Via tv blog.

There are some really phenomenal pictures in this series, but I hesitate to clutter this page with a long series of photographs. Instead, I suggest you view the whole set on her site. There isn’t really a designation where one set ends and the next begins, but all of her sets are interesting.

[Caspar David] Friedrich’s own destiny is part of the psychological landscape of his age. In almost every one of the poems by Wihelm Müller that Schubert set in his Winterreise, there are lines that seem to mirror the painter’s distraction and dread of human contact:

Durch des Bergstroms trock’ne Rinnen
Wind’ ich ruhig mich hinab–
Jeder Strom wird’s Meer gewinnen
Jedes Leiden auch sein Grab. (Irrlicht)

(Down the mountain stream’s dry gullies
I calmly pick my way
Every stream will reach the sea,
Every sorrow finds its grave.)

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A lightbulb is placed in a block of ice and ink. As it melts, the ink spreads about on its own accord. More views at various stages here.

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