Artsakh
We Lived Happily During the War llya Kaminsky And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them
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Oceanic Connections
Oceanic Connections – the first of the morning conversations held at Schumacher College for the Small is Beautiful Weekend. Warm kōrero with Leah
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The figure in the carpet
Tree of Life on green ground. A handmade, natural dye carpet woven by Suraya in Kosalar, Azerbaijan. The Tree of Life design holds
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Relational dream practice and dreams of trees
During the regular dream meetings throughout the lockdown—languageofthedre.am—particularly in the early months of the pandemic, dreamers regularly reported vivid dreams of enormous trees.
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Creation of the Birds
Creation of the Birds, Remedios Varo, 1957, oil on Masonite
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Garden of Eden
Johann Elias Ridinger, Schöpfung (Creation) Copperplate engraving, c. 1750 “A blinding light descends on Eden in the creation of man and the animals”:
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Alchemical language
Splendor Solis, illuminated alchemical text attributed to Salomon Trismosin, 1500s
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Mantiq al-tair
“How can an ant’s eye be lifted to the Pleiades?” 15th century illustrations of the mystical poem Mantiq al-tair, Language of the Birds,
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Fauvism: colour trees
Olive Trees in Cavalière by Henri Charles Manguin, oil on canvas, 1906
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The sycamore of Ancient Egypt
In Ancient Egypt the sycamore tree was seen as a manifestation of the Goddesses Nut, Isis and Hathor “Lady of the Sycamore”. The
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