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Takako Ugachi: 'Quatre Saisons' (2020)

Still drawing my boy Onfim.

Onfim was a little boy from Novgorod in the 13th century, and his drawings on birch bark survived until today.

Liza Sivakova, ‘Anxiety’, Oil on canvas

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“It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some inanimate object; they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change one’s nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone.”

— The Alexiad, written by Anna Komnene, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, c. 1148.

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”

- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front.

Medieval Signet Ring, 15th-16th Century AD

A late Medieval silver ring probably Eastern European in origin.

With oval bezel, carved with a standing bird, it’s neck and head bent down, a star and crescent before it, the rim of the bezel and shoulders of the ring with decorative border.

I want to go back to the beginning. We all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. But I’m wrong.

Gregory Orr, from Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved

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