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A divining rod of ancient silver divining the outlines of the future

A divining rod of ancient silver divining channels between flowers

A divining rod of ancient silver divining the stone wheel of memory

A divining rod of ancient silver divining the wind upon the fields

A divining rod of ancient silver divining the moons beneath the city

A divining rod of ancient silver divining the roots of wisdom fruit

A divining rod of ancient silver divining sea and Self, an ongoing dialogue between sea and Self

A divining rod of ancient silver divining social collapse

A divining rod of ancient silver divining twin streams:

Pottery: the Jomon (縄文) Period (Japan, c. 12,000-300 BCE) and William Blake (1794) England.

Religious calendar art showing Jesus with children and the iconographic image of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevera.

Many years ago I did a printmaking project in an elementary school. One of the students made a print of (what I thought was) a Central or South American religious deity. I was intrigued with the clay pots or possibly drums. Then I realized I was looking at it upside down. How odd such a cartoon, reversed, depicts an altogether different creature. Nothing about the ‘accidental’ image reflected the student’s cultural heritage.

Photographic still from the B movie ‘Plan 9 from Outer Space.’ And the Pietà, Michelangelo’s great work, in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Angelus Novus by Swiss-German artist Paul Klee & the exquisite Donna Summer modelling a gown.

A painting by Giotto and a blurry mushroom-like photograph of a parachuting Russian pilot, before being shot, by forces allied to lawlessness.

Digital configuration of Blake’s art + Jomon pottery.

Neil Armstrong Apollo 11 spacesuit & the Shroud of Turin.

Goldfish and residential street in Toronto.