Kiki Smith: ‘Constellation’ At Nelson-Atkins Museum Of Art (1996)

two friends in paris

La Nuit by Auguste Raynaud (1887)

Burn the bridges behind, so you can never go back.

a study of the moon

Mermaid

RockyMeng-JUMOStudio

It is easy to create an interstellar radio message which can be recognized as emanating unambiguously from intelligent beings. A modulated signal (‘beep,’ ‘beep-beep,’ . . . ) comprising the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, for example, consists exclusively of the first 12 prime numbers—that is, numbers that can be divided only by 1, or by themselves. A signal of this kind, based on a simple mathematical concept, could only have a biological origin. . . . but by far the most promising method is to send pictures.

Dr Prof Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan also wrote under the pseudonym Mr X

Francesca Woodman

I Could No Longer Play, I Could Not Play By Instinct, Providence, Rhode Island , 1977

The Aegean Sea (detail) by Frederic Edwin Church (c. 1877)

Green Pan and Black Bottle

Picasso, 1908