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Esoteric Forms Emerge from Wood in Aleph Geddis’s Enchanting Geometric Sculptures — Colossal

Carving out a niche where traditional woodworking, modernism, and esoterica meet, Aleph Geddis crafts intricate geometric sculptures from solid pieces of timber. Each abstract piece has a personality of its own, some elusively figurative while others appear like glyphs or ancient symbols transformed into three-dimensional shapes.

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Olive Trees (Van Gogh series) – Wikipedia

 

Source: Olive Trees (Van Gogh series) – Wikipedia

Of Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Vincent wrote his brother Theo: “I did a landscape with olive trees and also a new study of a starry sky,” calling this painting the daylight complement to the nocturnal, The Starry Night. His intention was to go beyond “the photographic and silly perfection of some painters” to an intensity born of color and linear rhythms.[29]

Within the painting, twisted green olive trees stand before the foothills of the Alps and underneath the sky with an “ectoplasmic” cloud. Later, when the pictures had dried, he sent both of them to Theo in Paris, noting: “The olive trees with the white cloud and the mountains behind, as well as the rise of the moon and the night effect, are exaggerations from the point of view of the general arrangement; the outlines are accentuated as in some old woodcuts.”[29]

37 Pieces of Career Advice I Wish I’d Known Earlier – RyanHoliday.net

Just leaving this here for future reference.

The trope that a day job takes away from your art or your hustle is stupid. There was a great exhibition at the Blanton Museum a couple years ago about artists who had day jobs. I wrote 3.5 books while I was the Director of Marketing at American Apparel. I started my own marketing company while I was a writer. I have

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