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Path of Life I, 1958, M.C. Escher

Medium: woodcut

Avalokiteśvara with Tārā, Bhṛkuṭī, and Hayagrīva, Nālandā, BIhar circa late 10th century

Shiva dancing, Pattadakal, Karnataka, photo by Kevin Standage 

Dawn, 1933, Laura Knight

Conjunction between Moon, Jupiter and its three moons – Io, Ganymede, & Callisto. Europa is hiding behind Jupiter.

Lady Absinth (1901) - Ferdinand Keller

幽玄 The two main elements in Noh acting were monomane, “an imitation of things,” or the representational aspect, and 幽玄 yūgen, the symbolic aspect and spiritual core of the Noh, which took precedence and which became the touchstone of excellence in the Noh. Zeami wrote, “The essence of yūgen is true beauty and gentleness,” but not mere outward beauty: it had to suggest behind the text of the plays and the noble gestures of the actors a world impossible to define yet ultimately real. Such plays as Matsukaze, written by Kan’ami and adapted by Zeami, have a mysterious stillness that seems to envelop the visible or audible parts of the work. In other of Zeami’s dramas there is less yūgen and more action and, occasionally, even realism. Yūgen (幽玄) is one of the important concepts in traditional Japanese aesthetics. The exact translation of the word depends on the context. In the Chinese philosophical texts the term was taken from, 幽玄 yūgen meant “dim”, “deep” or “mysterious”. In the criticism of Japanese waka poetry, it was used to describe the subtle profundity of things that are only vaguely suggested by the poems. Yūgen is said to mean “a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe… and the sad beauty of human suffering”. Yūgen suggests that beyond what can be said but is not an allusion to another world. It is about this world, this experience. Ortolani, 325). Ortolani, Benito. The Japanese Theatre. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1995

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Untitled, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asian Art

Purchase, William Spielman Bequest, in memory of William and Bette-Ann Spielman, 2009 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Copper alloy

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/75359

💙Metamorphosis💙

“The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.”

- Werner Heisenberg

Landscape with three figures, 1901, Paul Gauguin

Medium: oil,canvas

Gilles, 1719, Jean-Antoine Watteau

Eastern dance, 1887, Mikhail Vrubel

Medium: watercolor,paper