Tuesday, September 12, 2023

 Hans Frohne, 'Knabe als Fortuna'
Arnaldo Casella Tamburini Jr., "Two studies of a seated nude boy playing the flute"

Eram quod es, eris quod sum!

Tommy Liddell
'De puero et virgine', Liber medicinae ex animalibus, Netherlands or England 12th century

Andrey Shishkin, The Warrior's Path
Youth camp, Berlin, 1940

Desterrado (The Exile) - Carrara marble, 1872 - by the Portuguese sculptor António Soares dos Reis. This extraordinary work of art is in the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis in Porto. It is one of the finest sculptures I have seen in person, easily ranking with the works of Michelangelo and Bernini.

Francesco Scavullo, 'Arnold Schwarzenegger'
Max Klinger, 'And Therefore', from the 'Of Death, Part Two' series (1898) 
Carl Wendling, 'Bacchus Offering Wine in a Silver Bowl to a Marble Satyr Herm' (1880)
Ludwig Fahrenkrog, Vignette in his Baldur (1908)
'Human Energy'

Monday, September 4, 2023

Making magic!

Fiedelbohrer zum Feuerbohren

An alternative sort of fire drill (tool) is of course what we in English call the hand drill, but which in German is referred to as the Quirlbohrer (the whisk drill) or simply the Feuerquirl (the fire whisk). According to Guido von List, it was with such a Feuerquirl that the Germanic god Mundilföri first kindled the universe.

Meike Hakkaart , aka  Maquenda , 'Seeds of Our Becoming'