“the aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity & familiarity.”

philosopher ludwig wittgenstein

“quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood . . .”

“what is ‘familiarly known’ is not properly known, . . .  

just for the reason that it is ‘familiar.’ when […]

barbara hepworth museum, saint ives
the barbara hepworth museum & sculpture garden, saint ives . . .
visit the tate at saint ives & discover barbara hepworth . . .
from the original wakefield art gallery (established in 1934) became the new art gallery, the hepworth wakefield,
designed by david chipperfield architects in 2004 […]

a satellite on the periphery & deep rivers, in thun switzerland . . .
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deep rivers run quiet | reena saini kallat | thun switzerland, 2023
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reena saini kallat | deep rivers run quiet . . .
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reena saini kallat’s website . . .
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david plowden: the architecture of agriculture
the grohmann museum | milwaukee, wisconsin
until august 20, 2023, . . .
the image below is from the book, david plowden | imprints:
maurice stroda’s garage, ramona kansas 1991
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this week we had a nice casual visit in berner oberland tuna town from uli & lutz from berlin. the weather was pleasant, so we went for a ride on the paddle steamer blümlialp (which is over 100 years old now, but in wonderful restored condition). good friends | summer weather | beautiful scenery
yet […]

feet planted | pétanque | boule
a brief description of the game’s invention:
games where, a spherical object &/or ball | boule in french |, are played
on the ground have a very long history, dating back through the middle
ages to ancient rome, and before that to ancient greece and egypt . . .
in france in […]

tucker viemeister of viemeister industries delights in the universal look
of toothpaste tubes. the tubes look the same, but the design and their
contents reflect a national character . . .
zonweiss: the first toothpaste in a tube . . .
johnson & johnson

a portrait of designer tucker viemeister,
by ned myerberg & tracy szatan . […]

dayanita singh: dancing with my camera, museum villa stuck | munich
dayanita singh was born in new delhi in 1961 and studied at the national institute of design in ahmedabad and the international center of photography in new york.
using offset lithography as a creative medium, dayanita singh and gerhard steidl print images of a quality that […]

the artist embodies in himself the attitude of the perceiver while he works . . .
from art as experience, by john dewey
stanford university: dewey’s aesthetics
thinking with your hands & willy guhl . . .
zurich’s design museum is exhibiting the work of swiss designer willy guhl
| * july 6, 1915 † october 4, 2004 […]

edward fairburn | artist & illustrator
edward fairburn: i manipulate paper maps to construct other forms,
usually portraiture. i call this process topopointillism;
a direct combination of topography and pointillism . . .
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atlas of the new dutch water defence line
atlas of the new dutch water defence line | atlas nieuwe hollandse […]