I should pop in here more often, Liz. Yes, enjoyment is something you won't find on Twitter. It's a hell scape. Don't know why I stay on there.🫣

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Yes, I sketched her. I once posted it on Twitter, but have since taken all my art and photos down.

Yes, this Batavia in the photo, is a Cape Malay restaurant. Delicious food!

Batavia is what the Dutch East Indies Company called Jakarta (the capitol of Indonesia). The Cape Malay people came to SA on Dutch ships as slaves from Indonesia, Malaysia & the East Indies. They now speak a beautiful rich Afrikaans and also English like the rest of South Africans do.

“The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps … so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, thrash, or thunder in.” ~ Dylan Thomas

There’s a Turkish phrase about the upside of hitting rock bottom being that things can’t get any worse. It goes göte giren şemsiye açılmaz and it means “an umbrella up one’s ass cannot be opened”

Sculpture by Marieke Prinsloo-Rowe.

Exhibition: "On Beauty (With Apology to Umberto Eco)"

📷 Tessa Louw

"For Paul Celan (2001-5)"
~ Anselm Kiefer.

"Before your late night face, passing 
solitary 
between 
nights that reshaped me too, 
something came to stand there 
that was already with us once before, un-
moved by thought."

~ Paul Celan

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."

A. Schopenhauer.

"Strong Breeze" (2023)

* Graphite on matte photo paper

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"Earth Angel"

* Graphite

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As far as I know Tom Waits went insane, skated on her name and, by tracing it twice, he fell through the ice of Alice.

As of yet, no trace of Alice ...

David Lynch.

Factory photographs.

“The factories that I love, are black-and-white experiences. Colour putrefies them. I really love the oil-impregnated earth, gleaming with black oil; steel and brick, and glass and these machines, and the smoke and fire. An amazing, phenomenal thing.”

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"Sunlight" (2021)
* graphite

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Had the good fortune just now to be actually and wholly and briefly alone in a room of Van Goghs. And then mostly alone, and feeling his nervous system. Thanks to LCC and National Gallery

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On the road between Loeriesfontein and Calvinia in the Hantam region, Northern Cape, South Africa.

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Cape Town Contrasts.

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2024 hottest recorded year, crossed global warming limit Excess heat is supercharging extreme weather, and 2024 saw countries all over the world suffer disasters that cost more than $300 billion.

Johan Rockstrom of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: "We have now experienced the first taste of a 1.5 C world, which has cost people and the global economy unprecedented suffering and economic costs ..."
www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/...

Some photos I took of animals.

1) Cape dwarf chameleon drinking water (male)
2) Chacma baboon mother & baby - Franschhoek Mountains
3) Female ostrich - Stellenbosch
4) Blue headed male agama (lizard)

Although the basic information re apartheid South Africa in this article is accurate it could've benefited by better structuring of information. Also note that the South African Border War (1966-1989) was in effect over by the time Musk graduated high school. He wouldn't have been conscripted.

The beautiful and vibrant Bo-Kaap, Cape Town. Previously known as the Malay Quarter, it was established in 1760.

Here you'll find narrow cobbled stone streets & colorful houses built on the slopes of Singnal Hill. Cape Malay culture is present at all the sites and restaurants.

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“We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)

“Everything indicates that humanity is going downhill, despite its successes or rather because of them.”
~ Emil Cioran (Romanian philosopher, aphorist & essayist: 1911 - 1995)

"The Thinker" - Aldebran Art Gallery, Cullinan, South Africa.

📷 Tessa Louw

A metal collar that is shaped like a horseshoe and anchored to a piece of wood.

Here's your #DailyDose of medical history!

COFFIN COLLARS were used to thwart bodysnatchers in the early 19th century. The collar was fixed around the neck of a corpse and bolted to the bottom of a coffin. Bodysnatchers sold bodies to anatomists and medical schools. #skystorians #histmed

The night of 19 July 1965, poet Ingrid Jonker (31) walked into the sea at Three Anchor Bay.

"My lyk lê uitgespoel in wier en gras op al die plekke waar ons eenmaal was..." (My body lies washed up in weeds & grass in all the places where we once were)

I found her grave at Woltemade Cemetery.

📷 TL