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The Milky Way streams silver through the night.
I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams
I have no cause to wake or trouble you.
And, as they say, the incident is closed.

"Past One O’Clock" - Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1930

The blood through my veins coursed freely,
The locks curled around my face.
Stop, passerby! Can't you feel it?
I too, passerby, once was.

The sun's dust-like beams caress you,
You feel it on your shoulders and head.
Please don't let the voice distress you
That comes to you from grave.

Marina Tsvetaeva, 1913

#4 War Machine - In the background is the destroyed German Parliament building in Berlin. In the foreground people are celebrating the fall of Nazi Germany. #8 Burning Out - Two central photographs are of Mayakovsky and his living room

#2e Face behind enemy -- In the background you can see the frame of the destroyed Zeppelin. World War I soldier with a gas mask stands between a zepp machinery on the left and a sketch of a futuristic building. This sketch was done by Aloisio, one of the leaders of Italian Futurismo movement.

#4a Factory Poster -- Destroyed WWI bunker can be seen in the background of the picture (2 identical images in symmetry). In foreground is a poster, and over poster is a segment from a photo (two men between two wheels). Click on the year "1896" to see the background only.

#1d 1908 (aka "under Sea and Over Clouds -- 1908 and 1945") -- Two zeppelins are merged. The bottom of the image shows multitude of mini Japanese, kamikaze submarines that were found in Japan after the fall of the Empire. Construction cranes (connecting the subs with zepps) were taken from a separate photograph of a shipyard.

#2c Fiorini-Melnikov-Shukhov. Fiorini's design of a highrise is turned sideways (Fiorini was integral to Futurismo movement). Notice the little cars drawn on the side of the image. In the middle is the interior of a bus garage designed by Konstantin Melnikov and Vladimir Shukhov. The diver is positioned in the center -- to bring more dynamic to the image as well as to center it.

The cetnral image is of the ship being sent off to the sea for the first time. The images in the foreground were taken from the Soviet film posters.

"Renounce the intellectualist method and the current notion that logic is an adequate measure of what can or cannot be [...] reality, life, experience, concreteness, immediacy, use what word you will, exceeds our logic, overflows, and surrounds it." Bergson / James 1903

The Wolf trots to and fro,
The world lies deep in snow,
The raven from the birch tree flies,
But nowhere a hare nowhere a row.
[…] Is everything to be denied
That could make life a little bright?
The hair on my brush is getting grey.
The sight is falling from my eyes.
Years ago my dear mate died.
And now I trot and dream of a row.
I trot and dream of a hare.
I hear the wind of midnight howl.
I cool with snow my burning jowl,
And on the devil my wretched soul I bear.

artenza - vancouver - last updated on Apr 6, 2008.

#4 War Machine - In the background is the destroyed German Parliament building in Berlin. In the foreground people are celebrating the fall of Nazi Germany. #8 Burning Out - Two central photographs are of Mayakovsky and his living room

#2e Face behind enemy -- In the background you can see the frame of the destroyed Zeppelin. World War I soldier with a gas mask stands between a zepp machinery on the left and a sketch of a futuristic building. This sketch was done by Aloisio, one of the leaders of Italian Futurismo movement.

#4a Factory Poster -- Destroyed WWI bunker can be seen in the background of the picture (2 identical images in symmetry). In foreground is a poster, and over poster is a segment from a photo (two men between two wheels). Click on the year "1896" to see the background only.

The cetnral image is of the ship being sent off to the sea for the first time. The images in the foreground were taken from the Soviet film posters.

Hermann Hesse, 1926