Quesoff 2023—a food competition my wife could get excited about :)
“Dive” by Beach House
We’ll see if this guy’s any good
Barbarism…isn’t the mere opposite of civilization, but simply the refusal to communicate where communion is possible. By this definition, the modern scientific outlook is a barbarous enterprise. It tears down traditional knowledge; it dismisses subjective ways of knowing; it rejects communion with the past, except, that is, on scientific-technical terms.
Currently reading: The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari 📚
my happy place
Here’s a current installation of Kawamata’s, “Nest in Liaigre”:
Stumbled upon the work of Tadashi Kawamata, who reclaims old wooden objects and furniture for his elaborate constructions. Here’s a shot of The Nest, a large installation in Helsinki in 2022:
Naples (c. 1841) by John Ruskin:
Study of Dawn: purple Clouds (1868) by John Ruskin:
