The Other Side of the Road

likeafieldmouse:

Alvaro Sanchez-Montanes - Indoor Desert (2010)

“By the end of World War I, diamond mines in Kolmanskuppe, a site in the Namib Desert, ceased to be exploited. For over two decades it had been one of the wealthiest settlements in Southern Africa. During that time of splendour, German colonists who run the site had built their peculiar residences there evoking the architecture and décor of those in their homeland Bavaria. After it was closed down and its inhabitants left, Kolmanskuppe became a ghost town engulfed by desert sands. With his series Indoor Desert, Sanchez-Montanes enters these houses abandoned to the desert to unveil the serene enchantment that dwells in their chambers.”

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juliepasini:

Thyroid Hormone Synthesis
Autodesk 3Ds Max, Mudbox, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator

© Julianne Pasini 2012

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A rescue team searches for workers in dirty water on May 20, 2013 after a rest shelter outside a garment factory collapsed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

[Credit : Mak Remissa/EPA]

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A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano as seen from Paso de Cortes, in the Mexican central state of Puebla on May 20, 2013.

[Credit : Arturo Andrade/AFP/Getty Images]

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An exiled Tibetan holds a Tibetan flag as he shouts slogans during a protest at a local neighbourhood after they were stopped from protesting near the venue where Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was attending a meeting in New Delhi, India on May 20, 2013.

[Credit : Kevin Frayer/AP]

likeafieldmouse:

Francis Alys - Fabiola (2008)

“The story of St. Fabiola, a 4th-century Roman aristocrat from the Fabia family who is supposed to have been an early Mother Teresa, became popular in the late 19th century, and an 1885 portrait of her by a French academician (which is now lost) has since been endlessly copied around the world.

Appearing on postcards, posters and religious trinkets, Fabiola has been a beloved subject for countless painters, most of them amateurs. The portrait’s format is almost always the same: Fabiola is seen in profile facing left, her head covered by a rich red veil.

Mr. Alys, who was born in Belgium in 1959 and moved to Mexico City in 1990, began collecting Fabiola paintings—as the genre is called—about 15 years ago, buying them at thrift shops, flea markets and antiques stores primarily in Mexico and Europe. He has previously shown his collection three times, when it was much smaller; the current presentation includes more than 300 works.”

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People sit in a private collective taxi parked near the sea on the outskirts of Havana on May 19, 2013.

[Credit : Desmond Boylan/Reuters]