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The air is not a random bunch of gases simply drawn to earth by the earth's gravity, but an elixir generated by the soils, the oceans, and the numberless organisms that inhabit this world, each creature exchanging certain ingredients for others as it inhales and exhales, drinking the sunlight with our leaves or filtering the water with our gills, all of us contributing to the composition of this phantasmagoric brew, circulating it steadily between us and nourishing ourselves on its magic, generating ourselves from its substance. It is as endemic to the earth as the sandstone beneath my boots. Perhaps we should add the letter i to our planet's name, and call it "Eairth," in order to remind ourselves that the "air" is entirely a part of the earth, and the i, the I or self, is wholly immersed in that fluid element.

David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

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Francis Picabia, French, b.1879

Spring (Printemps), ca. 1937-1938/1943

Oil on plywood

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Blessed Beltane! The Beltane season is a time to celebrate the fertility of the earth, whether you honor the masculine aspect of the gods, or the sacred feminine of the goddesses. This simply prayer offers a thanks to the archetype of the earth mother for her bounty and blessings: Great earth mother!

Beltane Hester Aspland Illustration

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Street musicians,Vladivostok (1890s/1900s)

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Le paradis terrestre (Earthly paradise) ~ 1922 ~ oil on paperboard ~ Léon Georges Jean-Baptiste Carré (French artist, 1878-1942)

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Léon Georges Jean-Baptiste Carré (1878 ~ 1942) 1926 illustration for 'The Book of One Thousand and One Nights'

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Mistigram: Throw open the gallery gates! We've plundered the treasures of Western art history for the new MIST0424 artpack collection, making #textmode and vintage computer graphics adaptations of many famous and celebrated artworks and tributes to many geniuses of the art world. Here's a sampling of the styles and subjects you will find within, including modern art, old masters and relics from antiquity, rendered in mediums as varied as #teletext, #ANSIart, #ASCIIart and #BBCMicro high resolution graphics.

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Maher Morcos 

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By Maher Morcos Egyptian Artist.

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