A self-portraiture series exploring the dichotamy of how we have both the ability to mentally imprison ourselves, while simultaneously holding the key to unlocking our freedom.
Let us ask forgiveness of the Earth
For all our sins against her:
For our violence and poisonings
Of her beauty.
Let us remember within us
The ancient clay,
Holding the memory of seasons,
The passion of the wind,
The fluency of water,
The warmth of fire,
The quiver-touch of the sun
And shadowed sureness of the moon.
That we may awaken,
To live to the full
The dream of the Earth
Who chose us to emerge
And incarnate its hidden night
In mind, spirit, and light.
– John O’Donohue, from: In Praise of the Earth
(Photograph Gregory Colbert)
La Habana, Cuba … a socialist paradise.
Willy Brandt in Warsaw :
“Under the weight of recent history, I did what people do when words fail them. In this way I commemorated millions of murdered people.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warschauer_Kniefall
“Non-Violence”
This sculpture is a gift from the Government of Luxembourg and was presented to the United Nations in 1988. It consists of a large replica in bronze of a .45-calibre revolver, the barrel of which is tied into a knot. It was created in 1980 as a peace symbol by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, and is located at the Visitors’ Plaza, facing First Avenue at 45th Street.
Gottfried Helnwein painting “The Disasters of War”
photo: Cyril Helnwein
“Fairy 1” Gottfried Helnwein photograph, 2008
Installation in the city of Waterford, Ireland :
http://www.helnwein.com/works/photo/bild_3150.html
“The last Child” 2008
Gottfried Helnwein – digital print
Installation in the city of Waterford, Ireland :
http://www.helnwein.com/works/photo/bild_3150.html
“I Walk Alone” 2003
121 cm x 172 cm – mixed media (oil and acrylic on canvas)
from Gottfried Helnweins album “Paradise Burning”
India Song 2008-2012
A Place like Amravati Udaipur City Palace Udaipur
Attaining Moksha Ajanta Caves Ajanta
Becoming Arihanta Sahastrabahu Temple-Gwalior
Bhakti Path of Sants Shiva Temple Hampi
Disccussions Concerning Rasa Mehrangarh Fort Jodhpur
About India Song Karen Knorr
Karen Knorr’s past work from the 1980’s onwards took as its theme the ideas of power that underlie cultural heritage, playfully challenging the underlying assumptions of fine art collections in academies and museums in Europe through photography and video. Since 2008 her work has taken a new turn and focused its gaze on the upper caste culture of the Rajput in India and its relationship to the “other” through the use of photography, video and performance. The photographic series considers men’s space (mardana) and women’s space (zanana) in Mughal and Rajput palace architecture, havelis and mausoleums through large format digital photography.
Karen Knorr celebrates the rich visual culture, the foundation myths and stories of northern India, focusing on Rajasthan and using sacred and secular sites to consider caste, femininity and its relationship to the animal world. Interiors are painstakingly photographed with a large format Sinar P3 analogue camera and scanned to very high resolution. Live animals are inserted into the architectural sites, fusing high resolution digital with analogue photography. Animals photographed in sanctuaries, zoos and cities inhabit palaces, mausoleums , temples and holy sites, interrogating Indian cultural heritage and rigid hierarchies. Cranes, zebus, langurs, tigers and elephants mutate from princely pets to avatars of past feminine historic characters, blurring boundaries between reality and illusion and reinventing the Panchatantra for the 21st century.
Durga’s Mount, Juna Mahal, Dungarpur
New Temple Fighting Tigers
The-Avatars of Devi Samode Palace Samode
The-Conqueror-of-the-World-Podar-Haveli-Nawalgarh
The Gatekeeper Samode Palace Samode
The Inheritor Moti Mahal Mehrangarh Fort Jodhpur
The Joy Of Ahimsa Takhat Vilas Mehrangarh Fort Jodhpur
Flight to Freedom Juna Mahal Dungarpur
The Maharajas Apartment Udaipur City Palace Udaipur
The Messenger Purana Qila Delhi
Karen Knorr was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico in the 1960s. She finished her education in Paris and London. Karen has taught, exhibited and lectured internationally, including at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The University of Westminster, Goldsmiths, Harvard and The Art Institute of Chicago. She studied at the University of Westminster in the mid-1970s, exhibiting photography that addressed debates in cultural studies and film theory concerning the ‘politics of representation’ practices which emerged during the late 1970s qnd early 1980s. She is currently Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey.
The Private Audience Aam Khas Juna Mahal Dungarpur
The Queens Fort Zenana Udaipur
The Return of the Hunter Jaipur Palace Jaipur
The Sound of Rain Junagarh Fort Bikaner
The Survivors Deogarh Palace Deogarh
The Witness Humayuns Tomb Delhi
Waiting for Atman Junagarh Fort Bikaner
Enjoy!
Simplicity, patience, compassion – these three are your greatest treasures.
– Lao Tzu
The Animated Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth—not an actual tapestry—nearly 70 metres (230 ft) long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.
According to Sylvette Lemagnen, conservator of the tapestry,
The Bayeux tapestry is one of the supreme achievements of the Norman Romanesque, … Its survival almost intact over nine centuries is little short of miraculous, … Its exceptional length, the harmony and freshness of its colors, its exquisite workmanship, and the genius of its guiding spirit combine to make it endlessly fascinating.
The tapestry consists of some fifty scenes with Latin tituli (captions), embroidered on linen with coloured woollen yarns. It is likely that it was commissioned by Bishop Odo, William’s half-brother, and made in England—not Bayeux—in the 1070s. In 1729 the hanging was rediscovered by scholars at a time when it was being displayed annually in Bayeux Cathedral. The tapestry is now exhibited at Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Bayeux, Normandy, France.
Salon lilas
The Thirsty Pigeon
A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water
painted on a signboard. Not supposing it to be only a picture,
she flew towards it with a loud whir and unwittingly dashed against the signboard,
jarring herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow,
she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders.
Zeal should not outrun discretion.
Fables by Aesop
in a classic English translation by George Fyler Townsend
Flight to Freedom Juna Mahal Dungarpur
Autumn Day
Lord: it is time. The summer was immense.
Let thine shadows upon the sundials fall,
and unleash the winds upon the open fields.
Command the last fruits into fullness;
give them just two more ripe, southern days,
urge them into completion and press
the last bit of sweetness into the heavy wine.
He who has no house now, will no longer build.
He who is alone now, will remain alone,
will awake in the night, read, write long letters,
and will wander restlessly along the avenues,
back and forth, as the leaves begin to blow.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Profound and tranquil, free from complexity,
Uncompounded luminous clarity,
Beyond the mind of conceptual ideas;
This is the depth of the mind of the Victorious Ones.
In this there is not a thing to be removed,
Nor anything that needs to be added.
It is merely the immaculate
Looking naturally at itself.
NYOSHUL KHEN RINPOCHE
Vank Cathedral and The Church of the Saintly Sisters, is a cathedral in Isfahan, Persia (Iran).
Vank Cathedral was one of the first churches to be established in the city’s Jolfa district by Armenian immigrants settled by Shah Abbas I after the Ottoman War of 1603-1605. The cathedral consists of a domed sanctuary, much like a Persian mosque, but with the significant addition of a semi-octagonal apse and raised chancel usually seen in western churches. The varying fortunes and independence of this suburb across the Zayandeh River and its eclectic mix of European missionaries, mercenaries and travelers can be traced almost chronologically in the cathedral’s combination of building styles and contrasts in its external and internal architectural treatment.
Imam mosque..Isfahan Photo Copyright Nick Potter
Nasir al-Mulk Mosque – Shiraz, Iran.
“Located near the famous Vakil Bazaar in Shiraz, it was built during the Qajar era, and is still in use, although protected by Nasir al Mulk’s Endowment Foundation. It was built by the order of Mirza Hasan Ali Nasir al Molk, one of the lords of the Qajar Dynasty, in 1876 and was finished in 1888.
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This hall shows the winter shabestan of the mosque. A Shabestan or Shabistan is an underground space that can be usually found in traditional architecture of mosques, houses, and schools in ancient Persia (Iran).
Nasir al-Mulk Mosque – Shiraz, Iran.
“Located near the famous Vakil Bazaar in Shiraz, it was built during the Qajar era, and is still in use, although protected by Nasir al Mulk’s Endowment Foundation. It was built by the order of Mirza Hasan Ali Nasir al Molk, one of the lords of the Qajar Dynasty, in 1876 and was finished in 1888.
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This hall shows the winter shabestan of the mosque. A Shabestan or Shabistan is an underground space that can be usually found in traditional architecture of mosques, houses, and schools in ancient Persia (Iran).
Nasir al-Mulk Mosque – Shiraz, Iran.
Nasir al-Mulk Mosque – Shiraz, Iran.
Nasr ol Molk Mosque, inside colorful – Shiraz, Iran.
Nasir al-Mulk Mosque – Shiraz, Iran.
Inside the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Savior in Isfahan, Persia (Iran).
Vank Cathedral and The Church of the Saintly Sisters, is a cathedral in Isfahan, Persia (Iran).
Vank Cathedral and The Church of the Saintly Sisters, is a cathedral in Isfahan, Persia (Iran).
Vank Cathedral and The Church of the Saintly Sisters, is a cathedral in Isfahan, Persia (Iran).
Vank Cathedral and The Church of the Saintly Sisters, is a cathedral in Isfahan, Persia (Iran).
Vank Cathedral and The Church of the Saintly Sisters, is a cathedral in Isfahan, Persia (Iran).
Vank Cathedral and The Church of the Saintly Sisters, is a cathedral in Isfahan, Persia (Iran).
Vank Cathedral and The Church of the Saintly Sisters, is a cathedral in Isfahan, Persia (Iran).
Imam mosque..Isfahan Photo Copyright Nick Potter
Panoramic Shot of Ali Qapu Place`s 5th floor . it Shows you the Ceiling .
Ali Qapu is Located in Isfahan , Imam Square ( Naqshe Jahan SQ ) Photo Copyright Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul – Photo – Jeffrey Sullivan
This Byzantine church, later an Ottoman mosque and now museum, was so advanced when it was built that it remained the largest church in the world for over over 1000 years! For reference on the scale, it is said that Notre Dame in Paris would fit inside!
Castello di Sammezzano in Reggello, Tuscany, Italy.
Shahjahan Masjid-Pakistan
The Shah Jahan Mosque was built in the reign of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. It is located in Thatta, Sindh province, Pakistan. It has been on the tentative UNESCO World Heritage list since 1993.
In the town of Thatta (100 km / 60 miles from Karachi) itself, there is famous Shahjahani Mosque with its beautiful architecture. This mosque was built in 1647 during the reign of Mughal King Shah Jahan, also known as the builder King. The mosque is built with red bricks with blue coloured glaze tiles probably imported from another Sindh’s town of Hala. The mosque has overall 100 domes and it is world’s largest mosque having such number of domes. It has been built keeping acoustics in mind. A person speaking inside one end of the dome can be heard at the other end when the speech exceeds 100 decibels.
Maroc.
… Enjoy this wonderful collection of architectural masterpieces …!
a lament-heaven 