Rodin's Thinker started life as a study for a small figure to sit on top of the Gates of Hell.
2010-04-12
nebulus taxonomy: cloud ray
featuring a luscious scientific stingray illustration. sourced from Wikipedia commons: "The oldest published depiction of a common stingray, from Pierre Belon's , 1553 De Aquatilibus Libri Duo".
2010-04-11
bounded mountains
oils transpiring off the eucalyptus trees is what gives the brindabella mountain range their characteristic purple hue. in the ancient world, purple was a hard-to-get colour and usually involved milking the mucus from murex snails to produce tyrian dyes - a precious, but limited resource, reserved for royalty, and controlled by strict sumptuary laws. the sky has no such qualms about conspicuous sumption!
