the meaning of mystery

the great comet of 1881 - étienne léopold trouvelotcomet biela in 1846 - bilderatlas der sternenwelt - 1888comet, september 29, 1908the outline of science - a plain story simply toldedited by j. arthur thomsong.p. putnam's sons, knickerbocker press - 1922illustration of the leonids (1799)the midnight sky - edward dunkin - 1872the meaning of mystery is to be always in ambiguity, with double,

flowers appear (invisible birds)

unir ton système nerveaux au mien dans la nuit profonde de la connaissance, 1936the swan is very peaceful, 1920shoot the moon, 1972illustration from répétitions, paul éluard, 1922kleist, brentano, arnim:caspar david friedrich, seelandschaft mit kapuziner1972loplop, supérieur des oiseaux, 1928paramythes, 1967les diamants conjugaux, 1925quelques animaux dont un illettré, 1973l'oiseau dans la forêt,

rounds

richard serra - out-of-round VII - 1999(paintstick on hiromi paper)from richard serra: drawings, work comes out of workkunsthaus bregenz - 2008

the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line

in 1795, when shirley, massachusettes, was a community of 200 shakers living on three thousand acres, an outside observer recorded, "the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line, & as straight as they can be laid."inspired by visionary experiences, the gift drawings bridge the heavenly and the earthly spheres....imaging heaven as a perfectly balanced array of circles, squares, and

four forward drifting down

al reinhart - for all mankind - 1989when the sunlight shines through the blackness of space it's black, but i was in sunlight, and i was able to look at this blackness. i mean, what are you looking at? call it the universe, but it's the infinity of space and the infinity of time. i'm looking at something called space, that has no end, and at time, that has no meaning. you really can focus on

a dream dismissed, as shapeless night, orphaned by immensity

she said, 'the moon is up; and see -how in the height the smoke-shaft gleamsand the shadow glides, uncaught beneath ! -our life resembles, not the smoke,but the shadow flying to its death.'fyodor tyutchev, versions from fyodor tyutchev, oxford university press, 1960the moon, who is caprice itself, looked in through your window as you lay asleep in your cradle, and said: 'this child pleases me.'

where fuzzy edges and hues of color can lead one to wander...

luna-3 soviet moon images, october 7, 1959'it seemed i was observing the earth from the outside. i was in great empty space and saw the planets rolling quietly.'františek kupka*quote from four possible landscapes liner notes, steve roden'i am in the middle of a mass of thousands of very small particles that are brilliantly lit up like they are luminescent. they are bright yellowish green, about

the sphere ca. 1890 charcoalfrom the new book: as in a dream: odilon redon, hatje cantz 2007

cosmos, κόσμος

hubble image, carina nebulathe ancient and medieval cosmos as depicted in peter apian's cosmographia (antwerp, 1539).or, nebula & hubble