Hello!
My name is Al and I made a website called The Culdesac.
It’s full of stories, essays, translations, and little doodles — all from yours truly.
Take a look and enjoy!
https://t.co/GyOZegca6o
La Télévision japonaise qui nous apprend que les autruches aiment bien les chauves car la forme leur rappelle leurs œufs et elles les protègent instinctivement 😄
These 1920s costumes for dancing — more sculpture than clothing — by the avant-garde couple Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt, were born of an artistic philosophy of suffering: https://t.co/oowJyziflG
A seemingly modern moment of abstraction in a medieval manuscript, representing silence as a yellow rectangle: https://t.co/tiLbCX2cwO
“And when he opened the 7th seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour”
(Silos Apocalypse, BL Add MS 11695)
In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.
making graphic memory boards from our trip to rural alabama. this one goes out to the elderly man at a gas station somewhere near russellville who gave my wife an unsolicited lesson on snacks