Culture

Nature tells complex stories of ephemerality and interconnectedness, sometimes most poignantly when it interacts with culture.

Ruins:

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  I made the sketch for this painting in the dark outside of Cusco, Peru.

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  This painting was inspired by a scene in Luis Bunuel’s film of the same name.

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  In many cultures, the deceaseds’ spirit is believed to depart toward the setting sun, so the door of a tomb is often located at the west.

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  A loosew departure from Antonio (Canaletto) Canale’s original painting.

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  As sea levels rose, amphibians were among the first to perish en masse.

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  I don’t remember the rest of the dream, just this hypnopompic image right before waking up.

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  In this dream the water was amazingly clear.

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  What you might find.

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  Molecular engineers can design and synthesize complex polymers that grow in almost lifelike ways. Like a spider, an engineered molecule can trigger insertion of polymer subunits behind it, thus effectively “excreting” a thread to which it remains attached. As engineering frontiers expand, even more lifelike behaviors will be attainable.

Still Life Paintings:

Still Life Slideshow:

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  The technological shift in electronics from analog to digital was paralleled by a paradigm shift in mathematics, with discrete and combinatorial maths replacing traditional continuous analytical maths. Continuous objects are now converted to discrete representations for processing on digital computers.

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  A painting by Telmo Leon inspired the vase in this scene.

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  There are many means by which to advance new and evolved ways of thinking and being.