on Japanese dish
Beetroot, raw, with black sesame seeds
Month: August 2022
The first piece of this week’s cornbread
week #35
Matters of perspective — taste, smell, sight
Garlic knob (empty)
Charlie Parker *VIII 29 1920 / The Life You Give
Charlie Parker, born Charles Parker, Jr., also called Bird or Yardbird, on August 29, 1920, in Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.A., is the alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, a lyric artist generally considered the greatest jazz saxophonist. Parker was the principal stimulus of the modern jazz idiom known as bebop, and—together with Louis Armstrong and Ornette… Continue reading Charlie Parker *VIII 29 1920 / The Life You Give
Black Mission Fig
Ficus carica Linnaeus
The Life You Give: Hermann Nitsch *VIII 29 1938
Hermann Nitsch was an Austrian avant-garde painter, composer, and performance artist who worked in experimental and multimedia modes. He was a co-founder of the notorious art movement known as the Viennese Aktionists. With his project Orgien Mysterien Theater ("the Orgiastic Mystery Theater"), Nitsch immersed his audiences in scenes and symbols heavily charged with meaning: religious… Continue reading The Life You Give: Hermann Nitsch *VIII 29 1938
When nature resembles the artificial, and the beauty of the artificial resembles that of nature, we will have reached the numbest of realities: Panicle Hydrangea
Hydrangea paniculata Siebold
The Life You Give: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe *VIII 28 1749
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born August 28, 1749, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is the poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist, considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era.Goethe is the only German literary figure whose range and international standing equal those of Germany’s supreme philosophers (who have… Continue reading The Life You Give: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe *VIII 28 1749
Carnegie
Malabar Spinach
Basella alba Linnaeus
Cigar resting on a Leica IIIF
The Life You Give: Jorge Luis Borges *VII 24 1899
Jorge Luis Borges, born Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, August 24, 1899, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is the poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works became classics of 20th-century world literature.Borges was reared in the then-shabby Palermo district of Buenos Aires, the setting of some of his works. His family, which had been notable… Continue reading The Life You Give: Jorge Luis Borges *VII 24 1899
Seasonal Sculpture
Train Station
Stone Sweeper
The Life You Give: Karlheinz Stockhausen *VIII 22 1928
Karlheinz Stockhausen, born Aug. 22, 1928, in Mödrath, near Cologne, Germany, is the composer, and important creator and theoretician of electronic and serial music who strongly influenced avant-garde composers from the 1950s through the ’80s.Stockhausen studied at the State Academy for Music in Cologne and the University of Cologne from 1947 to 1951. In 1952… Continue reading The Life You Give: Karlheinz Stockhausen *VIII 22 1928
Water Works
Okra Flower
Abelmoschus esculentus Linnaeus Moench
Beetroot Debris
Building
The Life You Give: Antonio Salieri *VIII 18 1750
Antonio Salieri, born Aug. 18, 1750, in Legnago, Republic of Venice [Italy], is the composer whose operas were acclaimed throughout Europe in the late 18th century.At the age of 16, Salieri was taken to Vienna by F.L. Gassmann, the imperial court composer and music director (Hofkapellmeister), and was introduced to Emperor Joseph II. During the… Continue reading The Life You Give: Antonio Salieri *VIII 18 1750
Sila Blume 