everyone who wants to do the thing I do is being trained as a classicist and I’m not sure if that makes me new and interesting or fundamentally underqualified :/
Escapist fantasy meets excessive pedantry.
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Suzanis; a type of textile made mostly in Tajikistan, and parts of Uzbekistan such as Bukhara & Samarkand.
‘Suzani’ name of the exquisite silk mural embroideries comes from Persian “sozan” which means “a needle”. The art of making such textiles in Iran is also called ‘Suzandozi’ (needlework). Tajik & Uzbek Silk Handmade Suzanis gives people an insight into the old culture and tradition of the Khorasani land. Such works of art were prepared and used for ceremonial events like wedding, fittings for horses and horsemen, and the general embellishment of reception areas. Traditionally this embroidery work began at the birth of a daughter and continued, with the help of family and friends, until the bride’s dowry was complete. The patterns of Suzanis are an expression of women’s mood and fantasies; and not only that…Most of all, Suzanis are the last exponents of an age-old tradition.
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“A Benevolent World”
December calendar illustration for patreon :)
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ordinarily I am unsympathetic to the view that we should all move to the Swiss Alps and herd sheep (cf. Rousseau), but Haller’s so charming I can’t bring myself to care
Albrecht Haller, probably: the Georgics are nice but they’d be better at 6500 feet
Die Alpen isn’t even my favorite Haller poem (easily Unvollkommenes Gedicht über die Ewigkeit) but I just find it so endearing and it’s entirely because of the footnotes.
Haller (unlike some 18th century authors I could mention) does not treat the pastoral ideal as something removed from reality. Haller is a naturalist, by god. Haller has catalogued every notable rock formation, cheese-making technique, and species of deciduous shrub in the Swiss Alps if left to his own devices will describe them all in 10 lined rhymed stanzas. When that isn’t enough (about three times a page), he’s got field observations and references to the latest and most comprehensive botanical texts. (And sometimes Pliny. It was the 1720s). Haller hopes his slightly fanciful verse hasn’t given you the wrong impression of the relative size and structure of gentians growing in the upper and lower valleys of this one particular region outside Bern. Haller has actually been to his idealized pastoral Hamlet and wants everyone to know it.
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Sight - The Five Senses (series), 1617, Peter Paul Rubens
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ordinarily I am unsympathetic to the view that we should all move to the Swiss Alps and herd sheep (cf. Rousseau), but Haller’s so charming I can’t bring myself to care
Albrecht Haller, probably: the Georgics are nice but they’d be better at 6500 feet
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ordinarily I am unsympathetic to the view that we should all move to the Swiss Alps and herd sheep (cf. Rousseau), but Haller’s so charming I can’t bring myself to care
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I wanna watch The Good Place but I gotta read Kant’s essay on the failure of theodicy :(
speaking of it has taken all of five pages for him to conclude that a just creator wouldn’t make the world and human nature a series of nearly-impossible trials anticipating the slim possibility of an eternal reward, and I feel like Chidi has not been doing his homework
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I wanna watch The Good Place but I gotta read Kant’s essay on the failure of theodicy :(
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my first ever embroidery project finished :’) a sketchbook for a dear friend of mine; the picture is based on an image from an islamic pottery tile
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani