What is your honest opinion on this concept? Do you think we should replace cemeteries and grave stones with tree's? I am kind of on the fence with this one.
This painting shows a man suffering in silence for the sake of people who, in the end, would crucify him...
It is called Christ in the Wilderness, painted by Ivan Kramskoi in 1872. It shows the forty days in the desert, but Kramskoi leaves out everything we expect: there is no devil, no dramatic temptation, no glow of holiness.
There is only a man on a stone with his hands clenched together, having plainly sat there all night.
Look at the feet. They are bare on the sharp rocks, and they are bleeding. He has walked a long way in the dark and has not slept, worn down by a decision only he can make...
Kramskoi was clear about what he had painted. For him, he wrote, this was the image of a man with the highest sense of duty, caught in the moment he must choose.
Tolstoy, who understood a great deal about the weight of a conscience, told the gallery's owner it was the best Christ he knew.
Everyone comes, sooner or later, to some version of that stone: a morning when the right thing and the easy thing point in opposite directions, and no one else can make the choice for you.
The painter never tells us what Christ decides. Instead, he paints the weight of the choice before it is made. For the measure of a person is not what they do when the world is watching, but what they resolve to do in the grey hour, alone, when walking away would cost them nothing at all...
Leave it to entrepreneurs to solve bigger problems.
@PalmerLuckey presents the “Barracuda” missile on Japanese TV:
“It’s much less expensive than a conventional missile… It’s cheaper to make 100k of these than 1,000 existing missiles.”
Brilliant 👇🏽
Hector, dying for the sin of his brother, is a tragedy. Achilles later admitted that Hector was the best warrior he had ever fought. Imagine if this was the movie Nolan made in 2026, it would have been epic