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But Even So

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by Viktoria Vidali on May 13, 2011

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The world of dew is, yes, a world of dew, but even so . . .

[Kobayashi Issa (1819), translation by Sato Hiroaki.]

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Glory

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by Viktoria Vidali on April 15, 2011

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Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.

~ William Shakespeare

[Photo credit: Creative Commons, Dave-F/Flickr.]

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The Key To Understanding

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by Viktoria Vidali on November 1, 2009

in Art,General,Weekly Image

Near the Rodin Sculpture Garden on the Stanford Campus in Palo Alto, California, environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy and eight skilled dry-stone wallers from England and Scotland worked steadily for three weeks in 2001 to construct Stone River. For this sculpture, Goldsworthy and his team chose sandstone salvaged from university buildings destroyed in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes – an original and creative way to reuse local materials.
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